Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 12:31:16 CEST From: "Ulf ." <ulfeke@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to configure the kernel? Message-ID: <F168vTe1wXG4cd8LiEH00007e60@hotmail.com>
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Hi I have successfully managed to install FreeBSD (4.1-RELEASE) for the first time. The Handbook suggests me to recompile the kernel if I wish to add or subtract support for different devices. I would like to do both, but how? Sure, I know how to copy GENERIC and modify it, but _how_ can I find out what lines are needed and what to add to have support for my hardware? To strip the kernel I tried to read the boot-log and only keep devices that had been mentioned there. That didn't work:) Any good hints? The networks card I wish to add (3c574tx) is listed as "supported" yet not available in the generic kernel. What should be the way (not only in this case but more general) to find out what /dev/xx it is using, and how to set it up? My struggles to add support for this networks card included a few recompilings of the kernel. I found /etc/defaults/pccards which says it is an 'ep' device. But that one is already in the generic kernel, and 'MAKEDEV' only gives me an error. The solution though ended up as a simple 'pccard_enable="YES"'-line in /etc/rc.conf. Should I have known? Now it works nicely with kernel.GENERIC but one thing.. It takes time for the card to be identified. Often the log-in prompt is up before the card is recogniced. This gives me that I have to issue the "ifconfig" and "route" commands manually to set things up. What can I do to make sure all happens in the right order (or at the right speed)? Thanks /Ulf _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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