From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 17 16:29:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 575D137B654 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 16:29:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from van.woerkom@netcologne.de) Received: from oranje.my.domain (dial-195-14-254-133.netcologne.de [195.14.254.133]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA24487; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 01:29:15 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from marc@localhost) by oranje.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA02157; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 01:28:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from van.woerkom@netcologne.de) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 01:28:25 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200006172328.BAA02157@oranje.my.domain> X-Authentication-Warning: oranje.my.domain: marc set sender to van.woerkom@netcologne.de using -f From: Marc van Woerkom To: peter@netplex.com.au Cc: jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <20000617082126.11FFD1CE2@overcee.netplex.com.au> (message from Peter Wemm on Sat, 17 Jun 2000 01:21:26 -0700) Subject: Re: GENERIC from today does not detect system console on my box Reply-To: van.woerkom@netcologne.de References: <20000617082126.11FFD1CE2@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Uhh... gethints.pl is a once-only tool to help you get from an old config > to a new one. Once you have stripped out the hints, gethints will find > none. GENERIC.hints is the corresponding hints file for what used to be > in GENERIC. Like Jordan wrote, the solution was in the subject: > Re: GENERIC from today does not detect system console on my box ****************** He seems to have put a new style GENERIC file (thus one that has no hints = port irq etc information for ISA stuff) through the perl script. You might try the script on an old style GENERIC to get the hints.. Regards, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message