Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 13:15:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Cyrille Lefevre <root@gits.dyndns.org> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kerneld for FreeBSD Message-ID: <200006181115.NAA59468@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20000617201131.A77682@manatee.mammalia.org> "from R Joseph Wright at Jun 17, 2000 08:11:31 pm"
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> Joseph Wright wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 04:14:51AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > > "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> writes: > > > > > > Joseph Wright wrote: > > > > > > > > Since when? Any that I've ever needed had to be compiled into the > > > > kernel. > > > > > > Since when is a tough question, but since 4.0, I think, for NICs, and > > > certainly at least 3.x, maybe even 2.x, for fs. > > > > cvs log ifconfig.c says revision 1.44 which is after RELENG_3_4_0_RELEASE > > ... > > RELENG_4_0_0_RELEASE: 1.51 > > ... > > RELENG_3_4_0_RELEASE: 1.38.2.2 > > ... > > revision 1.44 > > date: 1999/09/20 07:58:08; author: msmith; state: Exp; lines: +45 -1 > > If we don't appear to have a module loaded supporting the interface > > we're about to operate on, try to load one. Don't complain if the > > load fails, and always press on regardless (there may not be a module > > suitable or required). > > > > With the renaming of the PCI ethernet driver modules and the addition > > of appropriate miibus dependancies on those modules that need it, it is > > now no longer necessary to compile many ethernet drivers into the kernel; > > they will be loaded on demand the first time they are ifconfig'ed. > > I built a kernel without 'device miibus' and 'device xl' and it > automatically loaded the drivers when I manually did 'ifconfig'. But > it didn't load them from rc.conf, where I have my ethernet card > configured like so: > > ifconfig_xl0="inet 216.231.50.6 netmask 255.255.255.0" > defaultrouter="216.231.50.1" > > So I put the drivers back in the kernel. another solution would be to load it a boot time using if_xl_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf. I don't remember which version of FreeBSD are you running, is it 4.0-STABLE ? PS : I put back this message in the mailing lists multimedia & hackers. Cyrille. -- home: mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net work: mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre@edf.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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