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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news From: Markus Baeurle <s671687@rghx50.gp.fht-esslingen.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can 3c509 use different irq? Date: 3 Aug 1995 15:11:09 GMT Organization: Hochschule fuer Technik Esslingen Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3vqoud$fl1@news.belwue.de> References: <3vomhp$4fi@overload.lbl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: rghx51.gp.fht-esslingen.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.03 9000/715) X-URL: news:3vomhp$4fi@overload.lbl.gov Hello Jin! JG> Is there any way to reconfigure the kernel to let 3c509 card to use JG> different irq other than 10? Just look at the configuration file /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC. You can give different IRQ and IO-addresses there. You can also comment out all the devices that aren't in your machine so that the kernel will get smaller and boot faster. After that, recompile the kernel. If You don't know how to do this, it's in section 6 of the FreeBSD.FAQ which can be found in /usr/share/FAQ/Text. If you want to know what options there are at all, look at /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT. Btw, I have just installed 2.1-950726-SNAP. It's really great! The installation is much better now and the package management is great. Thanks to the whole FreeBSD-team for this nice work! There are only some minor snags: -I felt a bit unsure what to do next while in fdisk. Maybe it would be helpful to give more of a "Do this and then this" advice in the Help-Files than just saying "This does that and here you can do this". But I must admit that I did not have any printed ReadMes at hand. -I think the csh and vi should finally be ditched as default in favour of tcsh or bash and a more up-to-date editor (I'm just trying out the various alternatives). Same for twm vs. fvwm. -Is there really no nicer way to get the kernel sources installed afterwards than cat-ing the ssys-set from the src-Directory together and unpacking it by hand? Cheers, Markus