Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:53:19 GMT From: PEB@amleth.demon.co.uk (Paul E. Bennett) To: nate@yogotech.com, (Nate Williams) Subject: Re: Bridging with 3C589D-COMBO on 4.2-RELEASE? Message-ID: <6530@amleth.demon.co.uk>
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In message <15021.46309.150521.925816@nomad.yogotech.com> Nate Williams writes: > > PS: In my experience, though FreeBSD has lots of advantages, it is > > *much* less stable than Linux. It's crashed -way- more than Linux ever > > did; more even than Windows does at work (of course I push Windows a lot > > less). And I've had it lose files a couple of times when it came back > > up after a hard crash like that. > > > > Is this at all normal? > > Is it at all normal for folks with laptops? [%X] > My very strong suspicion is that you're boxed is misconfigured. > Unfortunately, Linux may make it easier for you to configure your > hardware correctly, so in some respects that it's difficult to configure > your hardware correctly could be considered a 'bug' in FreeBSD. Perhaps we might consider the lack of a probe utility that reports back to the configuration engineer as a bug too. To someone who is, admittedly, new to FreeBSD but who likes what he has seen of it so far, I find that lack of a single utility that you can be told to run which will properly discover what hardware you have attached makes resolving proper configuartion more difficult. Being told, as we have been, to use the Windows 9x/2k facilities to do such probing would seem to be a bit of an admission that the FreeBSD people have missed something important from the system. It would seem to be more important to have such utilities these days as many hardware manufactures are being really mean in the povision of information about their products. They just provide a disk that will configure the system for Win9x/2k and dis-regard any other OS possibility. OK, probe detection requires that the facilities for it are built in to the probeable hardware. That was what the PnP issue was all about. I get better results from my control systems (which are all probable over the networks - but then I build them that way). Incidently, I too have PCMCIA issues, raised through here, the misc newsgroup and in email to those on the PAO project but have yet to get resolved on my problems. I am a bit limited in time I can spend plodding through all the masses of documentation as I need to do other things with my days beside get my Dell laptop properly sorted (starting to wish for 80 hour days here) but I would like to soon be able to transfer my email, web-acces and other work related stuff to that. I am, however, beginning to know the way in which I want it all to operate. Now, is 4.3R going to have PCMCIA Ether/Modem combo-card support? -- ******************************************************************** Paul E. Bennett ....................<email://peb@amleth.demon.co.uk> Forth based HIDECS Consultancy .....<http://www.amleth.demon.co.uk/>; Mob: +44 (0)7811-639972 .........NOW AVAILABLE:- HIDECS COURSE...... Tel: +44 (0)1235-814586 .... see http://www.feabhas.com for details. Going Forth Safely ..... EBA. www.electric-boat-association.org.uk.. ******************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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