Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:02:18 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledome.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Florian Hengstberger <e0025265@student.tuwien.ac.at> Subject: Re: Kernel size 5.2.1 Message-ID: <200410191302.18673.nvass@teledome.gr> In-Reply-To: <i5tme2.4718ug@webmail.tuwien.ac.at> References: <i5tme2.4718ug@webmail.tuwien.ac.at>
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On Tuesday 19 October 2004 10:34, Florian Hengstberger wrote: > Hi! > > I have compiled my own kernel now, editing the GENERIC configfile > that comes with the distrubtion and commenting out a huge number of > options. > The kernel size is still much larger than a linux kernel > (3.7 MB - 1.2 MB). > Why is this? Linux(vmlinuz, bzimage ) is compressed. I think it's much biger than FreeBSD's kernel. You should compare vmlinux with /kernel > > Is there anything similar to lspci in FreeBSD? > What about lsmod, is there a tool which lists the loaded > kernel modules? > How can I find out which driver modules are used for my > network card? You can use apropos(1) since almost every device driver has a manual page. Very nice thing when you don't know the name of a kld. Cheers, Nikv > > Thanks a lot, > Florian >
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