>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Schmehl >Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 11:06 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized > > >Alex Zbyslaw wrote: >>> >>> It's working fine since I installed 6.1. The odd thing is, >I thought >>> I needed the bce driver, but the 6.1 install detected the >NIC and used >>> the bge driver. That driver is available in 6.0 as well, yet it >>> didn't work in that install. >> >> Why is this confusing? Drivers get updated to cover newer >versions of >> chips which didn't exist or weren't available to the developer when >> originally written. If you really care then check out the >CVS history >> for your driver from the FreeBSD site (developer / CVS >Repository / web >> interface). >> >If I understand what you're saying, you're saying that the driver only >gets updated for the latest OS? That seems a bit absurd to me. >Wouldn't the bge driver be the same for every OS version that it's >available for? >
All parts of FreeBSD are constantly being worked on. It is more correct to think of FreeBSD as a continuum, with the releases merely as defined points on the continuum. A number of people, in fact, run FreeBSD in such a way that every night a process on their system goes to the master CVS repository, and fetches any changes and updates that have been made, then applies them to their system. Ted _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
