From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 10 14:36:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D4737B718 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 14:36:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D6C7F6A918; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:06:31 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:06:31 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Brian Astill Cc: questions Subject: Re: What does 'added driver support' mean? Message-ID: <20010311090631.D75895@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <0103101033270A.26742@PhD_1.testname.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <0103101033270A.26742@PhD_1.testname.com.au>; from bastill@sa.apana.org.au on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 10:27:12AM +1030 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 10 March 2001 at 10:27:12 +1030, Brian Astill wrote: > 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? No, it's a rather obfuscated way of saying "we now have a device driver for..." > That a driver is supplied and can be compiled into the kernel on > request? It doesn't even say that. Maybe it's in the default ("GENERIC") kernel. > (How? - I saw no mention of it in sysinstall Rel 4.2) sysinstall won't tell you how to build a kernel, and it also won't tell you what is supported. You can either build a new kernel or load an LKM. Building the kernel is described both in the handbook and in "The Complete FreeBSD". > Is it automatic that this "driver support" is also present in > Release 4.2? Not completely. But you can assume that some support will be carried over for all except the oldest or mouldiest boards. The place to look is in HARDWARE.TXT on the first CD-ROM, but I don't see it in there. This is obviously a case of "suck it and see". In any case, if you're running FreeBSD on a laptop, use the newest version you can get. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message