finding the correct man page ???

Andrew P. infofarmer at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 01:19:06 PDT 2005


On 10/27/05, ke.han <ke.han at redstarling.com> wrote:
> Hello list,
> I am  working on configuring a new system and have run across maillist
> comments such as:
>
> "The comment in GENERIC is not accurate, the bge driver supports 5721
> based cards for a couple of month now (the manpage in RELENG_5 is correct)."
>
> The problem is, which man page? There are so many man pages, I rarely
> know how to find what I'm looking for.  The whatis command does no good
> for this sort of search.  Since I'm still pretty new to things, is there
> some searching mechanism or naming structure I'm not clued into?
>
> thanks, ke han
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sat64% man -k 5721
bge(4)                   - Broadcom BCM570x/5714/5721/
5750/5751/5789 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver


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