In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Gary T. Corcoran" writes:
: I'm sorry, but I don't know what "hints" are. Can you briefly explain
: (to start)?
OK. hints are what are set by the isa hints driver. I have a driver
that will set these at boot, but it isn't quite ready to be
distributed. Your best bet is to put environment variables in
/boot/loader.conf.
: As to sysctls, not available until after driver loading: I believe
: that I need to know, before I reach the end of my attach routine, whether
: I'm going to be in a LAN mode or a WAN mode, so I know whether
: to do an ether_attach() or an sppp_attach(). So does that rule out
: sysctls?
Likely.
This whole area is really weak in FreeBSD and should be beefed up.
Warner
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