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From: frank@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help! NetBSD doesn't recognize my ethernet card!
Date: 12 Feb 1996 10:20:52 +0100
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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yue@heron.Stanford.EDU (Kenneth C. Yue) writes:
>Huh? Are these parameters hard-coded into the kernel? Why? Except
>for the hard drive parameters (for an obvious reason), shouldn't all
>these hardware parameters be stored in a configuration file, and
>NetBSD looks at this file when it boots? If such a file doesn't
>exist, or if the data in it are invalid, fine, just use the defaults.
>If all these parameters are really hard-coded into the kernel, how do
>I rebuilt the kernel?
I hate to disappoint you, but: yes. Currently, none of the freely available
OSs do it this way (although some of them are probably moving in that
direction). And you do need the sources for rebuilding the kernel, there's
no linkkit yet.
Alternatively, you could ask someone out there to build you a bootfloppy
with a kernel on it that boots..
- Frank
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