Detect hardware changes

Keith Bottner keith at barkinglizards.com
Fri Dec 9 13:53:40 PST 2005


I have not compiled a kernel. This is a standard FreeBSD 5.4-Release
installation. How can I check to see if the loadable module is installed?

Keith 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Odhiambo
Washington
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 12:35 AM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Detect hardware changes

Have you compiled a custom kernel? Do you have the nge driver included in
that kernel?

* On 08/12/05 15:14 -0600, Keith Bottner wrote:
> I believe so but for some reason it is still not showing up in 
> ifconfig or as a dev node. Do I need to do something special for 
> FreeBSD to start recognizing it at boot?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Giessel [mailto:pgiessel at mac.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 3:02 PM
> To: Keith Bottner
> Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions'
> Subject: RE: Detect hardware changes
> 
> On 12/8/2005 11:51, Keith Bottner seems to have typed:
> > skc0 at pci2:9:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x00241737 chip=0x10321737 
> > rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
> >     vendor   = 'Linksys'
> >     device   = 'EG1032 Gigabit Ethernet'
> >     class    = network
> >     subclass = ethernet


-Wash

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