From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 25 17:16:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA25992 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 17:16:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from cody.usls.edu (proxy-c.usls.edu [202.47.133.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA25915 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 17:15:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from francis@cody.usls.edu) Received: from localhost (francis@localhost) by cody.usls.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA00280; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 09:15:08 +0800 (PHT) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 09:15:08 +0800 (PHT) From: Francis Vidal To: Doug White 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, Doug White wrote: > 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. autoprobing means you don't need to specify during compilation (of the kernel) the IRQ, etc. that the NIC needs. the driver does it for you. i think Donald Becker of NASA is the one handling the drivers for the 3Com NICs for Linux. > Cool. I use it to do all of my CIS projects, well the ones I can get > compilers for in our expansive ports tree :-) we're using FreeBSD for all our proxy/cache servers and SQL server.