From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 1 06:32:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA12652 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 06:32:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from calis.BlackSun.org (slip-ppp-4-198.escape.com [205.160.46.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA12632 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 06:32:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from don@calis.BlackSun.org) Received: from localhost (don@localhost) by calis.BlackSun.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA08006 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:31:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from don@calis.BlackSun.org) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:31:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Don To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for feedback on xl (3c905/3c905B) driver In-Reply-To: <22024.904628531@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What is the big deal with the new driver folks? I cvsup'd the other day, made world and made a new kernel. The ethernet driver wasnt picking up my card so i checked all my files remade the kernel and still no luck. I bailed to a previous kernel jumped onto #freebsd for a quick question and was immediately told about the new driver. In 5 minutes i was running with the new driver. It didnt take but an extra 15 minutes to find the problem and correct it. I think there should have been a little more fanfare about the new driver but it wasnt the end of the world :) Besides if we didnt have these little hangups now and then what fun would system administration be? :) -Don ps: The slice problem was a lot more fun. The first kernel I made there didnt work (my fault) and when i had to bail to the previous kernel the slice info was wrong so i had to change it all back (fun when it doesnt want to mount root rw) and then try again :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message