Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:34:40 -0000 From: "Holdich, Kristian" <kristian.holdich@wcom.co.uk> To: "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Hardware Message-ID: <638F631FE126D21193CE0000F842EF6D02B9A990@gblon1ex2.wcom.co.uk>
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Michael, As a fellow newbie i've just been through a lot of this setting up my Thinkpad 600, if you have Win95 or NT on your machine, that is a good place to start getting information from... First you need to identify the hardware in your machine (CD, Mouse, Serial Ports, Network Card, SCSI, Modem, Graphics Card). Once you have this information you can go about reconfiguring FreeBSD so that it only includes support for hardware you _actually_ have. The way I did this was to recompile the kernel, which is reasonably straightforward and quite well documented in the manual. (available at www.freebsd.org) - there may be a more user friendly way, but it is good practice to get your hands dirty with a text editor and c compiler. Also, you should configure your email client to send plain text as many people here cannot read rich text. Regards Kristian Holdich ---------------- I'm using FreeBSD 3.1. My kernel file is indicating 13 conflicts, which I take to mean there are 13 hardware devices in my system that need to be configured for the software to work effectively. I'm not sure I know my hardware that well. Is there an easy way to determine what my hardware is? Device Manager in Windows 95 comes to mind. Also, can you suggest a good manual that will help configure my system and help me maximize the software. Thanks, Michael Rhodes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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