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Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 21:17:46 +1000
From: Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au>
To: Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [Q] FreeBSD 4.0 and Xircom ethernet cards?
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Thus spake Jonathan Belson (jon@dookie.demon.co.uk):
> Nick Slager wrote:
> > 
> > Thus spake Jonathan Belson (jon@dookie.demon.co.uk):
> > 
> > > Has anyone managed to get Scott Mitchell's Xircom driver to work under
> > > 4.0-RELEASE?
> 
> > The xe driver doesn't work under 4.0-RELEASE. It does, however, work under
> > 4.0-STABLE as of ~2-3 weeks ago (from memory).
> 
> 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 :-)

Have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/current-stable.html for full
information. Basically, you need to do a source code upgrade via cvsup or
similar, then 'make world'.

Or, wait for 4.1. I think it'll be out around July 25.


Nick.

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