Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:44:24 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, dfr@nlsystems.com, archie@whistle.com Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... Message-ID: <36B0E140.796E71E8@dons.net.au> References: <199901281838.TAA00524@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Wilko Bulte wrote: > > Well, for one its sucks trying to get newbies to work out what their network card is > > called.. > Not true IMO. You still need to know what hardware you have before you can build your > own kernels etc etc. Yes, this is true, but when they have just installed then its true :) Also, hopefully when we have the autodetection of hardware and loading KLD's for network cards etc, this would be so much nicer IMHO.. Just 'tidier'.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andnew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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