> >
> > I built a kernel without 'device miibus' and 'device xl' and it
> > automatically loaded the drivers when I manually did 'ifconfig'. But
> > it didn't load them from rc.conf, where I have my ethernet card
> > configured like so:
> >
> > ifconfig_xl0="inet 216.231.50.6 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> > defaultrouter="216.231.50.1"
> >
> > So I put the drivers back in the kernel.
If you want the module to be autoloaded, you also need to add it to the
network_interfaces varable, eg.
network_interfaces="xl0 lo0"
As otherwise the startup scripts don't know to do anything about it.
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