From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 25 10:35:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA06103 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:35:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA06095 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:35:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA17337; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:34:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:34:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Francis Vidal cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: autoprobe for ep0 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Francis Vidal wrote: > > > is it possible to do an autoprobe for ethernet cards (i.e. 3Com 509b)? > > > > FreeBSD doesn't support autoprobing, but that's what the 3c5x9cfg.exe > > program on the driver disk is for. > > oh, okay. i thought FreeBSD supported autoprobing like Linux does. would > the future releases of FreeBSD support autoprobing or do we see a support > for autoprobing in the near future? I don't know what you mean by autoprobe, but if someone wants that level of support, it must be written, and AFAIK no one is writing it at current. > p.s. i'm really satisfied with the performance of FreeBSD. we're currently > using it as the platform for all applications to be developed in the > university. Cool. I use it to do all of my CIS projects, well the ones I can get compilers for in our expansive ports tree :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major