From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 29 7:12:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc3.on.home.com (ha1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F21E31568F for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 07:12:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from a.genkin@utoronto.ca) Received: from main.wgaf.net ([24.114.152.71]) by mail.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.02 201-229-111-106) with ESMTP id <19991229151024.SQUV7552.mail.rdc3.on.home.com@main.wgaf.net> for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 07:10:24 -0800 Received: from antipode by main.wgaf.net with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 123Km8-00014g-00; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:12:32 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ed0 recognized as ed1 References: X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Organization: Wgaf From: Arcady Genkin Date: 29 Dec 1999 10:12:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: Annelise Anderson's message of "Wed, 29 Dec 1999 00:47:39 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: <87u2l1ixwf.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Annelise Anderson writes: > And it seems to vary with the version of FreeBSD or how recent the > -current sources are. My September 15 -current did ed1 but by > December 9 it was back to ed0. I cvsup sources every day. The kernel was rebuilt yesterday. ;^( Will it make sense to file a bug report or is it a well-known problem? > This is a problem on a remote reboot, because if rc.conf is wrong, the > network won't come up. And then you can't get to the machine to fix > it. Exactly. I had to drag my box out of the closet and attatch a monitor to it to find out what had happened. > I think you'd find, though, that if you compiled the kernel with ed1 > instead of ed0, your card would turn up with ed2. This is exactly the case. Annelise, thanks for your reply! -- Arcady Genkin http://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message