Re: kernel upgrades

2008-09-19 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
-- From: "Joe Tseng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 7:03 AM To: Subject: kernel upgrades I'm still new to FreeBSD (coming from CentOS/Ubuntu) so this might be something totally obvious to others...

Re: kernel upgrades

2008-09-19 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Tseng wrote: > I'm still new to FreeBSD (coming from CentOS/Ubuntu) so this might be > something totally obvious to others... I know I can update ports by using > portsnap fetch/extract/update - does this update the kernel source as well? > How do

Re: kernel upgrades

2008-09-19 Thread Ivan Voras
Joe Tseng wrote: > I'm still new to FreeBSD (coming from CentOS/Ubuntu) so this might be > something totally obvious to others... I know I can update ports by using > portsnap fetch/extract/update - does this update the kernel source as well? No, you need to do two things: 1) copy /usr/share/exa

Re: kernel upgrades

2008-09-19 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:03:25 -0400 "Joe Tseng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know I can update ports by using portsnap fetch/extract/update - > does this update the kernel source as well? No, it does not. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html Andreas -- G

kernel upgrades

2008-09-19 Thread Joe Tseng
I'm still new to FreeBSD (coming from CentOS/Ubuntu) so this might be something totally obvious to others... I know I can update ports by using portsnap fetch/extract/update - does this update the kernel source as well? How do I apply this new code? - Joe _

Re: Kernel Upgrades and Patches

2004-01-17 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
On Saturday 17 January 2004 11:37, Loren M. Lang wrote: > Are there any patches available for the FreeBSD kernel to support > features like acpi or usb 2.0 without upgrading to a full 5.1 kernel or > is it possible to use the 5.1 kernel without a full upgrade? No. FreeBSD is released as a complete

Kernel Upgrades and Patches

2004-01-17 Thread Loren M. Lang
Are there any patches available for the FreeBSD kernel to support features like acpi or usb 2.0 without upgrading to a full 5.1 kernel or is it possible to use the 5.1 kernel without a full upgrade? I'm curious if I could do something like in was doing in Linux before linux 2.6 was officially rele