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From: yue@heron.Stanford.EDU (Kenneth C. Yue)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help! NetBSD doesn't recognize my ethernet card!
Date: 15 Feb 1996 21:24:48 GMT
Organization: Stanford University: Computer Science Department, CA USA
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References: <4fj0no$dac@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <4fll8g$btc@sundog.tiac.net> <4floja$t6j@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <4fn0pk$r9v@carol.fwi.uva.nl>
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In article <4fn0pk$r9v@carol.fwi.uva.nl>,
Frank van der Linden <frank@fwi.uva.nl> wrote:
>yue@heron.Stanford.EDU (Kenneth C. Yue) writes:
>>Huh?  Are these parameters hard-coded into the kernel?  Why?  Except
>>for the hard drive parameters (for an obvious reason), shouldn't all
>>these hardware parameters be stored in a configuration file, and
>>NetBSD looks at this file when it boots?  If such a file doesn't
>>exist, or if the data in it are invalid, fine, just use the defaults.
>>If all these parameters are really hard-coded into the kernel, how do
>>I rebuilt the kernel?
>
>I hate to disappoint you, but: yes. Currently, none of the freely available
>OSs do it this way (although some of them are probably moving in that
>direction). And you do need the sources for rebuilding the kernel, there's
>no linkkit yet. 

Thanks for all the responses (both on the newsgroup and email).  I put
the source distributions on floppy disks and copy them to the hard
drive.  I used the kernel building script (Quesion 3.2.11 of the
386BSD FAQs) to try to rebuild the kernel, but the linker gave me this
error message:

autoconf.o: Undefined symbol `_setconf' referenced from text segment

Anyone has any ideas?  Thanks.

Ken