From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Apr 29 21:39:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA03490 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 21:39:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA03480 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 21:39:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id OAA06632; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 14:39:39 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 14:39:38 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Brett Glass cc: zpit@samara.net, amir@comtrol.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Comtrol RocketPort under 2.2 In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970429212143.0071be24@lariat.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Brett Glass wrote: > At 08:16 AM 4/30/97 -0000, Peter Zhigulin wrote: > > >I've did as you say and after I got your answer I started sending letter by > >letter > >to Amir Farah. And his mornig I've got an answer, telling me that there is > >updated > >driver for 2.1.5+ and 2.2+ at ftp://ftp.comtrol.com/BETA/B6547tar.gz > > > >There are two directories inside. For 2.1.5+ and 2.2+ > >So, who intersted in this driver could try it and report any bugs > >to Amir Farah . Hmmm. This driver supports RocketPort/PCI > >also :) > > This is good! It may be that official support is imminent. Perhaps Jordan > should make an official request to Amir (amir@comtrol.com) to have the > drivers included in the source tree. All that's really needed is > willingness on Comtrol's part to put a Berkeley-style copyright on it. It would be a very good start if Amir emailed Jordan and requested an official major number, instead of using mn 20. Danny