Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 05:08:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: garbanzo@hooked.net (Alex) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Higher-level kernel config? Message-ID: <199709200508.WAA17444@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970919171324.864B-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> from "Alex" at Sep 19, 97 05:15:23 pm
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> > I'm curious: could there ever be a case where you would not want to > > include a driver for hardware that was actually in your machine? If > > not, then I think dynamic autoconfiguration is the way to go. > > Yes, for instance I have a 3c509 in my system, and Win98 trys to use dhcp > over it automatically, even though at the moment I'm not using an ethernet > network. 1) DHCP is not a driver. 2) Windows 98's (I assume a beta) use of DCHP by default is a configuration error. You should be led through a "setup wizard" instead. Even so, it allows you to "ignore these messages in the future" -- effectively disabling it. 3) Windows 98 is a bad reference anyway; the built-in browser will not connect to https: servers without you paying for a commercial security certificate (unlike IE3.x and NetScape, both of which prompt you to allow the site without a certificate). For example. > Or say if I wanted to use my external modem instead of my > internal without changing my /dev/modem symlink. Ah. Here's your error: /dev should be mounted as devfs, and it should be impossible for you to create symlinks like this. Even so, this is a user configuration option for the terminal/ppp software, not for a system-wide default. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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