From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 27 12:59:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA27259 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:59:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from MediaCity.Com (root@easy1.mediacity.com [205.216.172.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA27254 Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:59:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brian@localhost) by MediaCity.Com (8.7.4/8.7.3) id NAA10122; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 13:05:02 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Litzinger Message-Id: <199603272105.NAA10122@MediaCity.Com> Subject: Re: BitsurfrPro on FBSD 2.1 & MLPPP broken To: dwalton@psiint.com (Dave Walton) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 13:05:02 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from Dave Walton at "Mar 27, 96 07:28:12 am" Reply-To: brian@MediaCity.Com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [brian wrote] [Bitsurfer Pros broken] Dave Walton wrote: > I'm curious in what way you feel it's broken. Exhaustive testing. > I haven't set mine up > under FreeBSD yet, but I've never had a problem like this under Win95. > That would tend to indicate to me that either only some BitSURFRs are > broken (not mine), or the hardware works and it's a software (FreeBSD > ppp) problem. > Or am I missing something here? Experience. There was a time when I was willing to actually track down the actual bugs in the BSPros and 3COM Impacts. Me and others in fact did track down a few and report them to the appropriate authorities. I've gotten tired and fixing their products for them though. Now all I do is check if they work and report Go, No Go. However, given both companies are close to releasing new versions of their products it isn't really worth spending time on the current ones. -- Brian Litzinger Powered by FreeBSD http[s]://www.mpress.com