Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 14:19:57 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Accton EN2216 PCMCIA Message-ID: <199803102219.OAA21048@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Mar 1998 14:27:03 MST." <199803102127.OAA28214@mt.sri.com>
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> > Anyway: sysinstall must already have some way to figure out what > > devices are in the system, right? > > Yep, it gets them from the kernel. However, the pccardd probes are > user-land probes. But even those devices still have to be configured (statically) into the kernel. (By that, I mean they have to be listed in the config file that the kernel was built from.) I was thinking that sysinstall could get the complete list of configured devices, and then try an ifconfig on each one to see which ones had actually been probed and recognized by pccardd. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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