From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 28 14:15:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25189 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:15:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (daniel.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25173 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:15:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Received: from dons.net.au (holly.dons.net.au [203.31.81.8]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA35117; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:44:46 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Message-ID: <36B0E140.796E71E8@dons.net.au> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:44:24 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wilko Bulte CC: "Daniel O'Connor" , current@FreeBSD.ORG, dfr@nlsystems.com, archie@whistle.com Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... References: <199901281838.TAA00524@yedi.iaf.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wilko Bulte wrote: > > Well, for one its sucks trying to get newbies to work out what their network card is > > called.. > Not true IMO. You still need to know what hardware you have before you can build your > own kernels etc etc. Yes, this is true, but when they have just installed then its true :) Also, hopefully when we have the autodetection of hardware and loading KLD's for network cards etc, this would be so much nicer IMHO.. Just 'tidier'.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andnew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message