From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 03:35:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA15244 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 03:35:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (brosenga.st.pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA15239 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 03:35:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA03880; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 03:35:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 03:35:46 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: David Greenman cc: "Brandon C. Wood" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Etherexpress Pro/10+ In-Reply-To: <199701222136.NAA06143@root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, David Greenman wrote: > >I changed it, but it didn't appear to make any difference. It's possible I > >did this wrong, though. After I changed it, I ran "make if_fxp.c" and > >rebooted. Is that right? > > No. :-) I think there is a kernel build how-to somewhere (perhaps in the > FAQ?), but basically you need to: There's a good one in _The Complete FreeBSD_. > 1) cd /sys/i386/conf and copy GENERIC to 'YOURCONFIG' > 2) edit it and take out anything you know that you don't need > 3) config 'YOURCONFIG' > 4) cd /sys/compile/'YOURCONFIG'; make depend; make; make install Is make depend necessary? Not knowing about it, for a long time I didn't do it, and nothing broke. (I know that that proves nothing -- that's why I'm asking. :) > -DG > > David Greenman > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > Ben The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland, Australia.