From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 2 17:29:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dastor.albury.net.au (dastor.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 970AD37B727 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 17:29:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicks@dastor.albury.net.au) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by dastor.albury.net.au (8.10.2/8.10.2) id e630Ss160459; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 10:28:54 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 10:28:54 +1000 From: Nick Slager To: Jonathan Belson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] FreeBSD 4.0 and Xircom ethernet cards? Message-ID: <20000703102854.B59282@albury.net.au> References: <20000702171646.B45428@albury.net.au> <395F19B4.C4C08AAA@dookie.demon.co.uk> <20000702211746.A49153@albury.net.au> <00036b70cdb75c19_mailit@post.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <00036b70cdb75c19_mailit@post.demon.co.uk>; from jon@dookie.demon.co.uk on Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 04:59:21PM +0000 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Jonathan Belson (jon@dookie.demon.co.uk): > >> Aha. Will an update be released or will I have to wait until 4.1 > >> comes out (some time this month AIUI)? > > > >You can update to -STABLE whenever you like :-) > > But when your laptop doesn't support your network card or cdrom it's > not so easy ;^) :-) Very true. > Can I get away with just rebuilding the kernel, or must I rebuild > everying? To be honest, I don't know. I've never tried to stick a -STABLE kernel on a -RELEASE userland before. I suspect there may be some issues, however. Anyone else care to comment? Nick. -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message