Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Hello, all! > > In former times configuring a kernel was a bit more cumbersome, > yet more straightforward than is today: > > device isa > device sio0 at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4 > device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 flags 0x0 irq 3 > > to keep the kernel from messing with the second device > completely, you simply removed the second line. > > > Today I have: > > device pci > device miibus > device bge > > I have a particular system that uses what FreeBSD 6.2 detected > as bge1 for remote console access over IP. As soon as the > interface is probed and activated by the kernel, the connection > to the remote management controller breaks. > > Is there a way to limit the number of probed entities for > a certain pci device class to, say, 1 in my case? > I'd like to use bge0 for FreeBSD but the kernel should leave > everything else that might be a bge interface alone. > > Thanks, > Patrick >
Would the following in /boot/device.hints achieve what you are after? hint.bge.1.disabled="1" hint.bge.2.disabled="1" ... -Proto _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
