kfreebsd-config

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Mon Aug 1 13:07:46 UTC 2005


On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 02:48:16PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > The network card template is not very useful currently, because the kernel
> > already contains most network card drivers, but this is subject to change in
> > the future.
> > 
> > I recommend to use this package when configuring sound cards and other stuff.
> > Also, it doesn't hurt to add your network driver; this way it'll be already
> > there when the "fat" kernel is cut down.
> 
> Well I don't think we should put network drivers as modules until we
> have a way to detect the hardware. Thus it is not necessary to configure
> the network cards with kfreebsd-config.

Ok.  I'll still leave the template enabled, though.  It includes drivers for a
few cards that for some reason are not built in the kernel image.

-- 
Robert Millan



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