Detect hardware changes

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Keith Bottner wrote:

>I have not compiled a kernel. This is a standard FreeBSD 5.4-Release
>installation. How can I check to see if the loadable module is installed?
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Have a look in /var/run/dmesg.boot and see if you have a line like

sk0: unknown media type 0xff

If so, plug your card into the network and try again.  Even if you don't 
see such a line, try it if you haven't already.  If that doesn't work 
then what does /var/run/dmesg.boot show for sk0 and skc0?

I have an SMC card based which fails to attach without a cable -- not 
sure if it needs to be plugged in to a router or not.  The onboard 
chipset on a different PC has no such failing.

--Alex