Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:34:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Francis Vidal <francis@cody.usls.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: autoprobe for ep0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971125103231.17289I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971125080329.221A-100000@cody.usls.edu>
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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
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