/DSBDriverd

Hardware detecting, device driver loading daemon for FreeBSD

Primary LanguageCOtherNOASSERTION

ABOUT

dsbdriverd is a daemon that automatically tries to find and load the suitable driver for your PCI and USB hardware. On startup dsbdriverd scans the PCI and US(B) bus for all connected devices and looks up their driver in a database using information provided by the hardware. The same applies to USB devices attached to the system later at runtime.

INSTALLATION

# git clone https://github.com/mrclksr/DSBDriverd.git
# cd DSBDriverd && make install

USAGE

dsbdriverd [-fnu] [-x driver, ...]

OPTIONS

-f

Run in foreground.

-l

List installed devices and their corresponding driver.

-n

Just show what would be done, but do not load any drivers.

-u

Start dhclient(8) on Ethernet devices that appeared after loading the corresponding driver.

-x

Exclude every driver in the comma separated list from loading.

SETUP

In oder to start dsbdriverd at boot time, add the following line to /etc/rc.conf:

dsbdriverd_enable="YES"

In addtion you can specify flags using the dsbdriverd_flags variable. If you want dsbdriverd to automatically start dhclient(8) on your Ethernet devices for which it loaded the corresponding drivers, you can set

dsbdriverd_flags="-u"

in /etc/rc.conf