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Subject: Re: Broken module loading and kernel dependencies
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> loaded statically in the kernel, and the others are loaded dynamically.
The
> dynamic loader doesn't see that the module is already present, and tries
to
> load it again.  (For PPPoE, the problem manifests when you only have
> 'options netgraph' in your kernel.  This forces ppp to try and load the
> other ng_* modules dynamically and things fall apart.)

Ah, that's why it worked for me, I didn't have anything in my kernel

>
> > If I did kldload if_rl it would pick up the kingston but not the
realtek,
> if
> > I loaded if_dc it would pick up the kingston and then I would try to
load
> > if_rl and it would tell me its already loaded and wouldn't pick up the
> > realtek, but I could not get both nic's to work until I compiled them
into
> > the kernel.
>
> I imagine this is because of 'device miibus', a dependency of both.

but isn't that the point of the kld miibus.ko?


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