Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 19:27:42 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized Message-ID: <445A479E.3040700@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <445A426D.50001@utdallas.edu> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNIEOEFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <7C4B0DBB1010E81071B8F08E@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> <4459DC71.5080807@dial.pipex.com> <445A426D.50001@utdallas.edu>
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Paul Schmehl wrote: > 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? > Seems absurd to you; seems perfectly understandable to me. There is no such thing as "the bge driver". There are numerous revisions of a bge driver and each OS version has it's own revision that was current when the OS was released. That's what a new OS version is: updated drivers and core utilities. --Alex
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