Re: matcd on an SB16

1999-07-16 Thread Wes Peters
Mark Newton wrote: Mike Smith wrote: Is the matcd driver known to work on FreeBSD 3.2 ? If not, does anyone have any estimate of the amount of effort that'd be required to fix it? It "works" for some definitions of "work". Firstly, there are three different CDROM

Re: matcd on an SB16

1999-07-16 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Wes Peters wrote: Uh, no, that's the way it's supposed to be. They support every stupid dongle and widget on the planet, remember? ;^) Execpt this dongle happens to be reasonably useful and common, and ignored by FreeBSD :^) - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: matcd on an SB16

1999-07-16 Thread Wes Peters
Mark Newton wrote: Mike Smith wrote: Is the matcd driver known to work on FreeBSD 3.2 ? If not, does anyone have any estimate of the amount of effort that'd be required to fix it? It works for some definitions of work. Firstly, there are three different CDROM interfaces

Re: matcd on an SB16

1999-07-16 Thread Andy Farkas
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Wes Peters wrote: Mark Newton wrote: Is the matcd driver known to work on FreeBSD 3.2 ? If not, does anyone have any estimate of the amount of effort that'd be required to fix it? It works for some definitions of work. Firstly, there are three

Re: matcd on an SB16

1999-07-16 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Wes Peters wrote: Uh, no, that's the way it's supposed to be. They support every stupid dongle and widget on the planet, remember? ;^) Execpt this dongle happens to be reasonably useful and common, and ignored by FreeBSD :^) - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: matcd on an SB16

1999-07-15 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Mike Smith scribbled this message on Jul 15: Is the matcd driver known to work on FreeBSD 3.2 ? If not, does anyone have any estimate of the amount of effort that'd be required to fix it? It "works" for some definitions of "work". Firstly, there are three different CDROM interfaces

Re: matcd on an SB16

1999-07-15 Thread Bob Bishop
At 01:05 15/07/99 -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Mike Smith scribbled this message on Jul 15: Is the matcd driver known to work on FreeBSD 3.2 ? If not, does anyone have any estimate of the amount of effort that'd be required to fix it? It "works" for some definitions of "work". Firstly,

Re: matcd on an SB16

1999-07-15 Thread Mike Smith
Is the matcd driver known to work on FreeBSD 3.2 ? If not, does anyone have any estimate of the amount of effort that'd be required to fix it? It works for some definitions of work. Firstly, there are three different CDROM interfaces that can be hung off an SB16; one is the Matsushita

Re: matcd on an SB16

1999-07-15 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Mike Smith scribbled this message on Jul 15: Is the matcd driver known to work on FreeBSD 3.2 ? If not, does anyone have any estimate of the amount of effort that'd be required to fix it? It works for some definitions of work. Firstly, there are three different CDROM interfaces that can

Re: matcd on an SB16

1999-07-15 Thread Nadav Eiron
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Mike Smith scribbled this message on Jul 15: Is the matcd driver known to work on FreeBSD 3.2 ? If not, does anyone have any estimate of the amount of effort that'd be required to fix it? It works for some definitions of work. Firstly,

Re: matcd on an SB16

1999-07-15 Thread Bob Bishop
At 01:05 15/07/99 -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Mike Smith scribbled this message on Jul 15: Is the matcd driver known to work on FreeBSD 3.2 ? If not, does anyone have any estimate of the amount of effort that'd be required to fix it? It works for some definitions of work. Firstly,

Re: matcd on an SB16

1999-07-15 Thread Jake Burkholder
Is the matcd driver known to work on FreeBSD 3.2 ? If not, does anyone have any estimate of the amount of effort that'd be required to fix it? It works for some definitions of work. Firstly, there are three different CDROM interfaces that can be hung off an SB16; one is the

Re: matcd on an SB16

1999-07-15 Thread Mark Newton
Mike Smith wrote: Is the matcd driver known to work on FreeBSD 3.2 ? If not, does anyone have any estimate of the amount of effort that'd be required to fix it? It works for some definitions of work. Firstly, there are three different CDROM interfaces that can be hung off an SB16;

Re: matcd on an SB16

1999-07-09 Thread Wes Peters
Mark Newton wrote: One of them has an SB16 with a CD-ROM drive. His attempts at installing FreeBSD from that CD-ROM have met with abysmal failure: $ Next came an install on my Pentium 60 (previously running Caldera-2.2) $ - A total disaster no way despite 12 attempts to install,

Re: matcd on an SB16

1999-07-09 Thread Wes Peters
Mark Newton wrote: One of them has an SB16 with a CD-ROM drive. His attempts at installing FreeBSD from that CD-ROM have met with abysmal failure: $ Next came an install on my Pentium 60 (previously running Caldera-2.2) $ - A total disaster no way despite 12 attempts to install,

matcd on an SB16

1999-07-08 Thread Mark Newton
I've been following a local Linux mailing list, and a couple of the users there have been trying FreeBSD ('cos I'm giving a presentation on it at a Linux user group meeting next month :-) One of them has an SB16 with a CD-ROM drive. His attempts at installing FreeBSD from that CD-ROM have met

matcd on an SB16

1999-07-08 Thread Mark Newton
I've been following a local Linux mailing list, and a couple of the users there have been trying FreeBSD ('cos I'm giving a presentation on it at a Linux user group meeting next month :-) One of them has an SB16 with a CD-ROM drive. His attempts at installing FreeBSD from that CD-ROM have met