Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 17:24:21 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Broken module loading and kernel dependencies Message-ID: <003501c0d67b$4c86d480$931576d8@inethouston.net> References: <002101c0d667$b0a7b3d0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <003701c0d66e$32ee5280$931576d8@inethouston.net> <001701c0d679$de3b77c0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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