From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 18 4:16: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from racine.cybercable.fr (racine.cybercable.fr [212.198.0.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56A4A37B852 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 04:16:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@gits.dyndns.org) Received: (qmail 3463083 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2000 11:15:58 -0000 Received: from r224m65.cybercable.tm.fr (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([195.132.224.65]) (envelope-sender ) by racine.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 18 Jun 2000 11:15:58 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA59468; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 13:15:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) From: Cyrille Lefevre Posted-Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 13:15:56 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200006181115.NAA59468@gits.dyndns.org> Subject: Re: kerneld for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20000617201131.A77682@manatee.mammalia.org> "from R Joseph Wright at Jun 17, 2000 08:11:31 pm" To: R Joseph Wright Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 13:15:55 +0200 (CEST) Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: clefevre@citeweb.net Organization: ACME X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[<97Zd*>^#%Y5Cxv;%Y[PT-LW3;A:fRrJ8+^k"e7@+30g0YD0*^^3jgyShN7o?a]C la*Zv'5NA,=963bM%J^o]C X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL77 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Joseph Wright wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 04:14:51AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > > "Daniel C. Sobral" 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