Arnet Sync 570 card under FreeBSD 5.1

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:54:09 +0200
"Chris Visser" <chrisv at absol.co.za> wrote:

> Hi,

Hi,
 

1. this should go on questions at ...

> I'm trying to configure the card under FreeBSD 5.1 and assume I'll
> have to recompile my kernel for support, but none of the
> explanations I find on the net seem to work.

2. Look again.
 
> I've tried going into /sys/compile to edit kernel and recompile but
> I am unable to go in there even as root.

# ls -l /sys/ | grep compile 
returns nothing so it's no wander. You will want to edit in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/your_kernel_name
and add "OPTION ar" to your kernel.
 
> I've tried going to the boot prompt and tying boot -c as suggested
> but my system just continues to boot.
> 
> Am I going about this the wrong way?  Do I need to do something else
> to get the card working?
> 
> I've used Slackware Linux for a couple of year (Since Kernel 1.0.18)
> and this is my first excursion into FreeBSD.

Then read the handbook. Esp. ch. 9
/usr/share/doc/handbook/kernelconfig.html


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