Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-08 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Worked like a charm, thanks...have fxp0 and procfs removed from my kernel config and using modules... On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > > Just to confirm, *technically*, I should just have to comment out the > > options PROCFS in my kernel config, reb

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > Just to confirm, *technically*, I should just have to comment out the > options PROCFS in my kernel config, rebuild and reboot and since procfs > isn't in the kernel, it will look for it as a module? As long as the module is up to date. -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread Mike Smith
> > On 08-Oct-99 Mike Smith wrote: > > > Yes.. That should work fine.. > > > In fact you can have all your FS's as modules except what / is.. > > You can have / too, as long as you load it with the loader. 8) > > And providing / is UFS because thats all the loader understands (?) No, it could

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 08-Oct-99 Mike Smith wrote: > > Yes.. That should work fine.. > > In fact you can have all your FS's as modules except what / is.. > You can have / too, as long as you load it with the loader. 8) And providing / is UFS because thats all the loader understands (?) --- Daniel O'Connor softwa

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread Mike Smith
> > On 07-Oct-99 The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > Just to confirm, *technically*, I should just have to comment out the > > options PROCFS in my kernel config, rebuild and reboot and since procfs > > isn't in the kernel, it will look for it as a module? > > Yes.. That should work fine.. > In fact

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 07-Oct-99 The Hermit Hacker wrote: > Just to confirm, *technically*, I should just have to comment out the > options PROCFS in my kernel config, rebuild and reboot and since procfs > isn't in the kernel, it will look for it as a module? Yes.. That should work fine.. In fact you can have al

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 07-Oct-99 Greg Lehey wrote: > > Well, the standard way to load a kld is with kldload(1) or kldload(2). > > I don't know if procfs works properly like this, though. > > Well I would assume (aha) that when mount cannot find procfs in the list of

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > > Figuring one of the things a friend of mine raves about Linux for is their > > kld's, I'd start playing with ours... > > > > Looking in /modules, I saw 'procfs', so, cool, a place to start...remove > > "options PROCF

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread Darryl Okahata
The Hermit Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Figuring one of the things a friend of mine raves about Linux for is their > kld's, I'd start playing with ours... [ Going off on a slight tangent ... ] You may have gone beyond this, but a good introduction to klds is an article called, "Atta

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread David O'Brien
> The network ones, for instance. No more need to put in the device lines > in the kernel configuration file, it will be automagically loaded by > ifconfig. I don't know if this is working already or not, though. It works in -CURRENT for most PCI network devices (`de' is one notable exception).

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999 03:00:52 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > checked the kld man page, and nothing in there appears to be > appropriate... You should have checked the SEE ALSO secion of the manpage (I wonder whether Ruslan Ermilov is reading?) *grin* SEE ALSO kldfind(2), kldfirstmod(2

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > Figuring one of the things a friend of mine raves about Linux for is their > kld's, I'd start playing with ours... > > Looking in /modules, I saw 'procfs', so, cool, a place to start...remove > "options PROCFS" from kernel config, rebuild, install and reboot ... > >

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 07-Oct-99 Greg Lehey wrote: > Well, the standard way to load a kld is with kldload(1) or kldload(2). > I don't know if procfs works properly like this, though. Well I would assume (aha) that when mount cannot find procfs in the list of FS's the kernel knows about it would try and load it ju

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-06 Thread Mark Murray
> Well, the standard way to load a kld is with kldload(1) or kldload(2). > I don't know if procfs works properly like this, though. Procfs works just fine: [groovy] /usr/src.With_secure_NFS # kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 17 0xc010 1a10cc kernel.debug 21 0xc09c1000 300

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-06 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 7 October 1999 at 3:00:52 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > Figuring one of the things a friend of mine raves about Linux for is their > kld's, I'd start playing with ours... Yes, it's funny how the Linuxers rave about loadable modules. It's a good idea, but I don't see anything

RE: modules: how to use?

1999-10-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 07-Oct-99 The Hermit Hacker wrote: > Looking in /modules, I saw 'procfs', so, cool, a place to start...remove > "options PROCFS" from kernel config, rebuild, install and reboot ... > so, I figure that I somehow have to tell the kernel to load that module? Well its a kld.. You don't have to

modules: how to use?

1999-10-06 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Figuring one of the things a friend of mine raves about Linux for is their kld's, I'd start playing with ours... Looking in /modules, I saw 'procfs', so, cool, a place to start...remove "options PROCFS" from kernel config, rebuild, install and reboot ... crashes... so, I figure that I somehow