Mikael Karpberg wrote: > That would be so lovely, with a DEVFS too: > Plug your Cool card into your pcmcia slot, and get the message on > the sytem console that an unknown pcmcia card called "Cool", made > by CoolMakers, Inc. Damn... not even a generic driver wanted this card. > Pull the card out and go for the web: > # ftp ftp.a.cool.thing.com > ftp> get cool.tgz > --> Downloading file.
Pah. kldload http://www.cool.com/drivers/freebsd/cool.ko Perhaps kld modules should have some kind of signature verification to support such a thing. That'd be so great. The FreeBSD installation floppy could delay most device probes until after you've set up networking (so you'd need some network drivers on the floppy) then grab all the latest versions of the other drivers it wants to complete the install from www.freebsd.org... - mark ---- Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: new...@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82232999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
