Re: NIC Questions for 6.1 Release - Obtaining changes not in RELEASE

2006-09-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris wrote: Excellent and detailed information. I read the handbook and Complete FreeBSD but couldn't grasp the relationship between CURRENT, STABLE, and RELEASE and the cvsup tags definitively. This is important when buying new hardware running ahead of RELEASE changes (e.g. the Broadco

Re: NIC Questions for 6.1 Release - Obtaining changes not in RELEASE

2006-09-13 Thread Chris
On Sep 13, 2006, at 4:03 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Chris wrote: Is there any single source where one can go to see what has been changed on the various components of the OS. Go to the source :-) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ Wow! That's an excellent resource and the bge driver

Re: NIC Questions for 6.1 Release

2006-09-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Alternatively you could just try downloading the two files and copying them over your existing ones (after backing them up!) and just try and see if a make buildkernel will compile them. If the changes don't rely on anything outside of these two files, you'd likely be f

Re: NIC Questions for 6.1 Release

2006-09-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Chris wrote: Is there any single source where one can go to see what has been changed on the various components of the OS. Go to the source :-) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ Wow! That's an excellent resource and th

Re: NIC Questions for 6.1 Release

2006-09-12 Thread Chris
On Sep 12, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Chris wrote: Is there any single source where one can go to see what has been changed on the various components of the OS. Go to the source :-) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ Wow! That's an excellent resource and the bge driver

Re: NIC Questions for 6.1 Release

2006-09-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris wrote: Is there any single source where one can go to see what has been changed on the various components of the OS. Go to the source :-) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ Especially for changes to limited components like a specific ethernet driver, it quite easy to see if anyt

Re: NIC Questions for 6.1 Release

2006-09-12 Thread Chris
On Sep 12, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 2006/09/12 10:52, Chris seems to have typed: These are coming out of the boot as: bge0: The computer is a Tyan s4884 quad opteron (duals). I have a Tyan S2882G3NR-D with: bge0: mem 0xfc9c-0xfc9c,0xfc9b-0xfc9b irq 24