Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 21:33:01 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Paul Schmehl" <pauls@utdallas.edu>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEOFFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <445A426D.50001@utdallas.edu>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Paul Schmehl >Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 11:06 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized > > >Alex Zbyslaw wrote: >>> >>> It's working fine since I installed 6.1. The odd thing is, >I thought >>> I needed the bce driver, but the 6.1 install detected the >NIC and used >>> the bge driver. That driver is available in 6.0 as well, yet it >>> didn't work in that install. >> >> Why is this confusing? Drivers get updated to cover newer >versions of >> chips which didn't exist or weren't available to the developer when >> originally written. If you really care then check out the >CVS history >> for your driver from the FreeBSD site (developer / CVS >Repository / web >> interface). >> >If I understand what you're saying, you're saying that the driver only >gets updated for the latest OS? That seems a bit absurd to me. >Wouldn't the bge driver be the same for every OS version that it's >available for? > All parts of FreeBSD are constantly being worked on. It is more correct to think of FreeBSD as a continuum, with the releases merely as defined points on the continuum. A number of people, in fact, run FreeBSD in such a way that every night a process on their system goes to the master CVS repository, and fetches any changes and updates that have been made, then applies them to their system. Ted
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