From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 29 5: 6:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (law2-f103.hotmail.com [216.32.181.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1F9937B408; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 05:06:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kmays2000@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 05:06:42 -0700 Received: from 65.1.108.216 by lw2fd.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 12:06:42 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.1.108.216] From: "Kenneth Mays" To: murray@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4-RC2 is now available Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 08:06:42 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Aug 2001 12:06:42.0580 (UTC) FILETIME=[10EB7540:01C13083] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Murray & others, 1. Downloaded 4.4-RC2 successfully. 2. I have access to a Dell PowerEdge 6400 with Ultra160 hardware and 8GB RAM. 3. I also have access to a QPS DVD-Writer USB 2.0 drive and the Adaptec USB2Connect card on one of my workstations. I checked the hardware.txt file to check for compatibility issues and I don't see support for USB 2.0 support (I talked about this before) and I only see support for Qlogic Ultra3. I also have the issue of having 8GB of RAM. I've read the posts and know that people have already run down this road. So, I was wondering if FreeBSD has looked into doing an inventory of the developers and common users hardware. I've seen this done in other BETA programs. Resources are probably tied-up so its hard to support everything in a reasonable amount of time so I understand that. My solution to my problem is to see donate a USB 2.0 card to FreeBSD for development purposes or allow log in access to one of the servers so someone can work on developing support for the Dell PowerEdge 6400 (or any other common machine (OEM spec)). Also, there could be another file saying what laptops and OEM-specific servers/workstations are known to work with FreeBSD 4.x/5.x. I'll be glad to spend some time doing this for FreeBSD if this makes life better for the community. I thought this would be a better solution than saying "it don't work!!" and burning up 30 minutes to find that out. Ken Mays 4.4-RC2 (28/08/01) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message