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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!unixhub!news.Stanford.EDU!heron.Stanford.EDU!yue 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 Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4g08b0$o70@Radon.Stanford.EDU> References: <4fj0no$dac@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <4fll8g$btc@sundog.tiac.net> <4floja$t6j@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <4fn0pk$r9v@carol.fwi.uva.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: heron.stanford.edu In article <4fn0pk$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