Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:53:26 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Nomad <atxnomad@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating/patching network card driver? Message-ID: <441w9ir2p5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <aab749db0712181014gfe2e1bxa6883c9a86c9b886@mail.gmail.com> (Nomad's message of "Tue\, 18 Dec 2007 12\:14\:45 -0600") References: <aab749db0712181014gfe2e1bxa6883c9a86c9b886@mail.gmail.com>
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Nomad <atxnomad@gmail.com> writes: > I installed FreeBSD 6.2 on my computer but the network card (bge) wasn't > detected properly. On troubleshooting the problem I found the driver for > this family of NICs isn't appropriate to my particular release. I would > prefer to stay with the RELEASE branch but found an updated > driver. In updating the driver, is it sufficient to replace the > contents of /usr/src/sys/dev/bge with the updated version and then > rebuild the kernel? It might be; trying it may be the easiest way to find out. If you're going to use unsupported upgrades, though, there isn't much reason to stick to release codebase.
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