Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:58:00 -0700 From: "Lawrence Cotnam Jr." <larry@pkunk.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: No help... Message-ID: <MKEOLDIJFGDJKDLHGFEGIEEPCBAA.larry@pkunk.net>
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I'm most disappointed. I've been running FreeBSD since version 2, and in all this time I've never experience the total lack of any assistance from the userbase. In the past, I've received good advice and help regarding FreeBSD-small for embedded systems, which my company has used for our embedded server product. But now... In the past 3 months, I've posted two very serious issues I've experienced and the first issue, regarding Bus Mastering SiS 5591 PCI IDE controller going into UDMA mode receive *ZERO* replies. Nothing. And now... my troubles with a 3COM 3C509 NIC has received one (rather useless, but thank you Julian. I appreciate your input, even if it had nothing to do with the problem) reply. This is just so disappointing. I've been using this operating system for about 5 years and I used to love it. The support used to be wonderful. The hardware support used to be wonderful. Now... its not. I can't get any of you folks to so much as offer any suggestions (excepting Julian) to my questions, even when I supply ample information regarding the problem, and attempted solutions. I've jumped ship. After 10 hours of hard work, I successfully migrated my entire server to Debian Linux, which I must say, the legacy hardware support is there. Like FreeBSD used to be. I wish you all well, but I won't be back with FreeBSD any time soon. Not only has the eroding legacy hardware support been a great disappointment, the lack of any userbase input regarding my troubles with such legacy hardware has been even more disappointing. I sorrows me to have to file away 5 years of know how and experience with this what used to be wonderful operating system, but the support is gone, the legacy drivers are flaky at best. Lawrence Cotnam Jr. (775) 337-2536 email: larry@pkunk.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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