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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 3c590 Drivers in FTP Install?
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 09:59:33 -0700
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To: HOSOKAWA Tatsumi <hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp>

HOSOKAWA Tatsumi wrote:
> But, I read /usr/src/release/sysinstall/devices.c, there's no "vx"
> entry in it.  If the GENERIC installation kernel recognizes vx, I
> think it can't be used by sysinstall (I've not tested it, because I
> don't have 3c590).

It doesn't need to know about it, though it will display vx0 as an
"unknown network interface type" in the menu (but still label it vx0, so
you know it's there).  The interface list is gotten from the kernel,
just as ifconfig does it, and if the kernel has detected your card then
it *will* show up in sysinstall's network device menu.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project