Re: How are USB drivers assigned?

2010-06-30 Thread Nicholas Mills
When the ums driver is loaded (at boot time or through kldload) it registers itself with the usb bus driver. When your mouse is plugged in the bus driver calls the probe routine of every driver that has registered with it. If the ums probe routine detects that the new device is in fact a mouse it

Re: Problem running fdisk via sysinstall

2010-06-24 Thread Nicholas Mills
Costlow wrote: Since I don't have any other ideas yet, I'll give that a try. I'll let you know if it works tomorrow if it has finished by then :-) Mark On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Nicholas Mills wrote: Mark, I'm certainly no expert, but I think I can point you

Network card attaching to the wrong driver

2010-06-23 Thread Nicholas Mills
All, I am running 8.0-RELEASE and having trouble with the ed driver that is compiled by default into GENERIC. My machine is actually a VM running under Parallels Server Bare Metal 4. I would like my card to be attached to the Parallels driver in ports (pvmnet) instead of ed. Is there some boot

Re: Problem running fdisk via sysinstall

2010-06-23 Thread Nicholas Mills
Mark, I'm certainly no expert, but I think I can point you in the right direction. The system appears to be attempting to read from a GPT stored on the disk from when you used it on Linux. I'm not sure of the specifics, but I do know that some GPT info is stored near the end of the drive. The