From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 2 02:17:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7238B16A4CE; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 02:17:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tinker.exit.com (tinker.exit.com [206.223.0.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32DC743D58; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 02:17:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (realtime [206.223.0.5]) by tinker.exit.com (8.12.11/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i922H8FQ094324; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 19:17:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by realtime.exit.com (8.13.1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i922H8jp006059; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 19:17:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@realtime.exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by realtime.exit.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i922H8Tp006058; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 19:17:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank) From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <200410020217.i922H8Tp006058@realtime.exit.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 19:17:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Copyright0: Copyright 2004 Frank Mayhar. All Rights Reserved. X-Copyright1: Permission granted for electronic reproduction as Usenet News or email only. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL119 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Amazing. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: frank@exit.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 02:17:09 -0000 I just want to drop a line to you folks (and to Bill Paul in particular) to express my appreciation for your work. I received my new laptop today after my old one finally succumbed to a combination of old age and ancient coffee spills. I installed 5.3-BETA6 on it immediately, no trouble, it knew about the Broadcom NIC out of the box and I did a quick check to learn how to set up ndis so I could use the Dell (actually Broadcom) wireless NIC as well. Built ndis, converted the Windows driver, built if_ndis, installed it, loaded it, configured the interface, ran dhclient and I'm using it as I type this. Took maybe an hour, including burning the driver and /usr/src on a DVD to carry into the living room. I was so impressed that I just had to write and say so. Kudos to you guys. You do good work. After having had to deal with the insides of Linux for the last year, it's a pleasure to use a system that is built with such professionalism. Thanks! -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/