From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 30 14:35:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from greg.ad9.com (greg.ad9.com [209.233.225.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A668814C11 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 14:35:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nepolon@systray.com) Received: from greg.ad9.com (nepolon@greg.ad9.com [209.233.225.5]) by greg.ad9.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA28657 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 14:48:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 14:48:28 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Lewis X-Sender: nepolon@greg.ad9.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: repeat: pci problem w/ de0 NIC In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Gene Harris wrote: > > -using 2.2.8-Release (the latest thing I have on CD) > This does not answer your question. You will get a lot more > hardware support, better routing, better security and better > administration with a 3.x release. Why build a new system > with such an old release? No it doesn't answer my question. Someone suggested that I look at vr instead of de ... anyone have a link suggestion for research? It doesn't make much sense for me to go through the irritation of rebuilding the machine if there is no solution to my problem. Also, I object to the predominant attitude that 2.2.8 is old. Look at the time-stamps. Yeah I know alot has changed in FreeBSD since, but the calendar says the FreeBSD crew has been extremely productive. :) reason - as I said, it's the latest thing I have burned on CD. reason - I already had the boot floppy (note singular) made reason - habit, I just had the service installed and I'm not used to having this kind of bandwidth. Doh. Didn't consider a network install. --Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message