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Date:      Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:16:56 +0100
From:      Matthew Bloch <matthew@bytemark.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nve driver clarifications with 6.2-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <f5gp58$v60$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <467BE617.6020900@u.washington.edu>
References:  <f5gdt8$k6i$1@sea.gmane.org> <467BE617.6020900@u.washington.edu>

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Garrett Cooper wrote:
> nfe exists, but you need to grab your sources _prior_ to booting up for
> the first time (can retrieve them by adding the source distributions),
> because the RELEASE kernel doesn't have the nfe driver, even though the
> STABLE and CURRENT snapshot ISO ones do.

Thanks - I did work out how to rebuild the kernel and it was fairly
painless in the end.  If I will only have to do one bodged installer for
6.2 before 7.0 includes the driver I want as standard, and then I
*don't* have to rebuild future releases, that should do for now.

cheers,

-- 
Matthew




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