autodetect network card

Does anyone know how to make a custum kernel autodetect a network card and load it's kernel module?
GENERIC always loads the detected NIC's automatically but my stripped kernel is missing that part. pciconf -l and dmesg show the device, and I can kldload it.
It's just the boot autodetect/autoload code that needs to be trigerred but I don't know where to look for it.

my custom kernel config:
Code:
cpu         I686_CPU
ident       TEST4 
options     SCHED_ULE             # ULE scheduler
options     PREEMPTION            # Enable kernel thread preemption
options     INET                  # InterNETworking
options     INET6                 # IPv6 communications protocols
options     SCTP                  # Stream Control Transmission Protocol
options     FFS                   # Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options     SOFTUPDATES           # Enable FFS soft updates support
options     UFS_DIRHASH           # Improve performance on big directories
options     UFS_GJOURNAL          # Enable gjournal-based UFS journaling
options     CD9660                        # ISO 9660 Filesystem
options     PROCFS                        # Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS)
options     PSEUDOFS              # Pseudo-filesystem framework
options     GEOM_PART_GPT         # GUID Partition Tables.
options     GEOM_LABEL            # Provides labelization
options     COMPAT_43TTY          # BSD 4.3 TTY compat [KEEP THIS!]
options     STACK                       # stack(9) support
options     SYSVSHM                       # SYSV-style shared memory
options     SYSVMSG                       # SYSV-style message queues
options     SYSVSEM                       # SYSV-style semaphores
options     _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time extensions
options     KBD_INSTALL_CDEV      # install a CDEV entry in /dev
options     AUDIT                       # Security event auditing
device        eisa
device        pci
device        ata
device        atadisk             # ATA disk drives
device        atapicd             # ATAPI CDROM drives
options       ATA_STATIC_ID       # Static device numbering
device        kbdmux              # keyboard multiplexer
device        vga               # VGA video card driver
device        sc
device        miibus              # MII bus support
device        loop                # Network loopback
device        random              # Entropy device
device        ether               # Ethernet support
device        pty               # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
device        md                # Memory "disks"
device        gif               # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling
device        faith               # IPv6-to-IPv4 relaying (translation)
device        uhci                # UHCI PCI->USB interface
device        ehci                # EHCI PCI->USB interface (USB 2.0)
device        usb         # USB Bus (required)
device          uhid              # "Human Interface Devices"
device          ukbd              # Keyboard
device          ums               # Mouse
device        atkbd
device        atkbdc
device        bpf
device        psm
 
The kernel doesn't load modules.

ifconfig(8) loads (most) network drivers on demand.

If you know which driver to use, you can edit /boot/loader.conf with an entry like:
Code:
if_dev_load="YES"
(replace if_dev with the module naem from /boot/kernel/*.ko). This will load the driver at boot.
 
doh! There's no filesystem access until the bootloader is executed. Forgot that...
 
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