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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!TAMUTS.TAMU.EDU!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!mcrcim.mcgill.edu!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD: kernel config question Date: 17 Oct 1993 20:56:18 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 61 Distribution: world Message-ID: <29sbhi$dpp@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <29s77c$fui@tut.msstate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca In article <29s77c$fui@tut.msstate.edu>, > >1> Should i reconfigure my kernel? its working just fine right now. There are those who say "if it ain't broke, doan' fix it". Of course, many would argue that these people are a product of the North American Schooling system, and really shouldn't be coming up with deep and meaningful quotes. > > b> do i need the line > > controller isa0 > > since i dont have an IDE controller (or is that line for > something else?). Consider the following two lines from your conifg file: controller aha0 at isa? port "IO_AHA0" bio irq 11 drq 5 vector ahaintr controller uha0 at isa? port "IO_UHA0" bio irq 11 drq 5 vector uhaintr If you didn't put in the isa0 line, then these devices wouldn't be able to exist... > c> Do i need any of the wd stuff (controller, disks)? do i need the > 'controller ahb0' line? Probably not, although I really don't know. > d> Also on boot up, the following line appears: > > is0 not probed due to I/O address conflict with ed0 at 0x280 > > what does that mean? is is another network device from what I can see, in which case you can probably just comment it out from your config file.... > e> after i do > > % cd /sys/i386/conf > % config FIRST > % cd /sys/compile/FIRST > % make depend > % make > > do i need to do anything else???? Two things: You can edit FIRST between the first and second step to configure it to your tastes, and you then need to copy the output (typically 'netbsd') to / Marc e'm. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA