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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: kernel config question
Date: 17 Oct 1993 20:56:18 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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In article <29s77c$fui@tut.msstate.edu>,
>
>1> Should i reconfigure my kernel? its working just fine right now.

	There are those who say "if it ain't broke, doan' fix
	it".  Of course, many would argue that these people are
	a product of the North American Schooling system, and
	really shouldn't be coming up with deep and meaningful
	quotes.

>
>   b> do i need the line
>
>    controller isa0
>
>     since i dont have an IDE controller (or is that line for
>     something else?). 

	Consider the following two lines from your conifg
	file:

controller      aha0    at isa? port "IO_AHA0" bio irq 11 drq 5 vector ahaintr
controller      uha0    at isa? port "IO_UHA0" bio irq 11 drq 5 vector uhaintr

	If you didn't put in the isa0 line, then these devices wouldn't
	be able to exist...

>   c> Do i need any of the wd stuff (controller, disks)? do i need the
>      'controller ahb0' line?

	Probably not, although I really don't know.

>   d> Also on boot up, the following line appears:
>
>   is0 not probed due to I/O address conflict with ed0 at 0x280
>
>     what does that mean?

	is is another network device from what I can see, in which
	case you can probably just comment it out from your config
	file....

>   e> after i do
>
>        % cd /sys/i386/conf
>        % config FIRST
>        % cd /sys/compile/FIRST
>        % make depend
>        % make
>
>      do i need to do anything else????

	Two things:  You can edit FIRST between the first and second
	step to configure it to your tastes, and you then need
	to copy the output (typically 'netbsd') to /


						Marc e'm.
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Marc Wandschneider					    Seattle, WA