From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 10 2:10:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (apana.internode.on.net [150.101.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9694F37B749 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 02:10:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from PhD_1.testname.com.au (bra@dialup-10.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.139]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA09225 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 20:40:13 +1030 (CST) From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: "questions" Subject: What does 'added driver support' mean? Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 10:27:12 +1030 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0103101033270A.26742@PhD_1.testname.com.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Found this in the 3.1 Release notes: 1. What's new since 3.0-RELEASE --------------------------------- 1.1. KERNEL CHANGES ------------------- Added driver support for pocket ethernet adapters based on the RealTek RTL 8002 chip. What does this mean in practice? That if you have the driver from somewhere, 3.1 can use it? That a driver is supplied and can be compiled into the kernel on request? (How? - I saw no mention of it in sysinstall Rel 4.2) Is it automatic that this "driver support" is also present in Release 4.2? Thanks in advance Brian ******************************************************** Dr Brian Astill Visiting Research Fellow Flinders University Institute of International Education Bus 8201 3480 FAX 8449 9199 bastill@sa.apana.org.au ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message