How can I install a driver?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tuesday 11 April 2006 06:07, Chris H. wrote:
> > but I have no clue how I can bypass the second step, which is installing
> > the if_myk.ko to /boot/kernel
> >
> > I have tried to cp if_yk.ko /boot/kernel/
>
> bad idea.

Maybe you should elaborate as to why..

It shouldn't do any *harm*.

The only downside will be that if you build a new kernel you'll no longer be 
able to load it automatically (because it will be in /boot/kernel.old)

For testing purposed you could just unpack it into, say, /tmp and then do 
kldload ./if_yk.ko

If that works OK then copy it into /boot/modules and add
if_yk_load="YES"
to /boot/loader.conf

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