From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 10 19:45:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75F6C37B719 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:45:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2B3m3N03479; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:48:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200103110348.f2B3m3N03479@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_fxp - the real point In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 10 Mar 2001 21:37:01 CST." <200103110337.f2B3b1210404@guild.plethora.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:48:02 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Okay, maybe I'm missing something... > > 1. Has anyone tried one of these new Intel parts with BSD/OS? > 2. Do any of the people involved with this have source licenses to BSD/OS? > > I am quite sure BSDi hasn't been swamped with "help, my Intel card isn't > working" requests. I'm also quite sure that the source license includes the > Intel stuff. Now, that doesn't do *much* more good than the Linux driver... > but it might help *some*. Actually, I don't think it does. I spoke with Jeert about this a while back; his attitude isn't much better than Intel's on this topic. > If anyone has a specific part number or model information about the new > unsupported PHY, I'd be happy to look it up and tell you what, if anything, > I can find out. I can't send out copies of the source without some kind > of formal approval, but I could certainly at least answer questions like > "do we have a BSD-flavored driver that works with this". The FreeBSD project already has a BSD/OS source distribution, however the required information is NOT THERE. Ok? -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message