FreeBSD 5.2 vs. 5.2.1

2004-07-13 Thread Andrew Kilpatrick
Hi, I'm developing an embedded system based on FreeBSD. When I started to build a stripped down version of FreeBSD I was using 5.2 RELEASE. Now I keep finding that 5.2 has vanished from most servers, and only 5.2.1 is available. This is particularly troubling, because I'm worried that I'm

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 vs. 5.2.1

2004-07-13 Thread Andrew Kilpatrick
Hi, thanks for the info. Greetings! From what I gather, the 5.2-RELEASE was rather buggy and unstable (for a RELEASE anyway), and was quickly replaced by 5.2.1-RELEASE which was a considerable improvement. I've been using it as my main machine for some time and it works well. But I'll

IP Aliasing Question

2004-07-08 Thread Andrew Kilpatrick
Hey, What I'm trying to do involves FreeBSD and IP aliases. Hopefully someone has some ideas. Here's the general idea of what I'm trying to do: I've got vr0, which is assigned to some IP address... let's say: 192.168.1.90 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. This is all fine, and everything

Sounds breaks up with 5.2-STABLE

2004-05-24 Thread Andrew Kilpatrick
Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 5.2-STABLE on my workstation and have just installed a CMedia CMI8738-based sound card. The card has worked well under OpenBSD in the past (even 3 in the same machine!) but with FreeBSD the sound breaks up and is choppy if I do specific things in X like: - opening new