installing a new device driver

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 02:09 -0800, Jack Mc Lauren wrote:
> How can I install a new device driver on my OS ?

I'm new to FreeBSD myself :).

Manually as root run

        kldload driver_name
        
this is something I already used myself.


To load the module automagically at startup, edit /boot/loader.conf

        driver_name="YES"
        
I never used this myself until now.


http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-modules.html


Hth,
Ralf