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Date:      Thu, 04 May 2006 13:05:33 -0500
From:      Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized
Message-ID:  <445A426D.50001@utdallas.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4459DC71.5080807@dial.pipex.com>
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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?

-- 
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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