From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 5 04:33:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 716C816A407 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 04:33:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF9A243D49 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 04:33:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id k454X1x23220; Thu, 4 May 2006 21:33:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Paul Schmehl" , Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 21:33:01 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <445A426D.50001@utdallas.edu> Cc: Subject: RE: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 04:33:05 -0000 >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Paul Schmehl >Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 11:06 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized > > >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? > All parts of FreeBSD are constantly being worked on. It is more correct to think of FreeBSD as a continuum, with the releases merely as defined points on the continuum. A number of people, in fact, run FreeBSD in such a way that every night a process on their system goes to the master CVS repository, and fetches any changes and updates that have been made, then applies them to their system. Ted