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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!darwin.sura.net!wupost!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!ibmpcug!adrian From: adrian@ibmpcug.co.uk (Adrian Hall) Subject: Re: ecinit on ifconfig Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK. Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 23:44:04 GMT Message-ID: <BtKCLH.B3o@ibmpcug.co.uk> References: <BtHKpH.3Lx@ibmpcug.co.uk> <veit.714673047@du9ds3> <1992Aug25.144402.27686@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> Lines: 23 >> Apparently a "scalpel" left in the code (ifconfig or ec-driver). Try >> ifconfig with a redirection to /dev/null to identify whether it is in >> the driver or in ifconfig. > >No. You won't see any error message anymore. Try to find the message >"ecinit" in the kernel and patch it (e.g. using any DOS disk tool). Replace >it by a character null (may be there's an escape sequence before "ecinit", >but then there should be another one behind it - I don't know). Another hack >could be to call > Gee, And I thought 386BSD came with full kernel sources. What is the point of binary hacking the kernel when you have a perfectly good source editor? Adrian -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adrian Hall Connect Systems Manager adrian@ibmpcug.co.uk The IBM PC User Group Tel: +44 81 863 1191 Harrow, London, UK