Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized

[pauls at utdallas.edu]

--On May 4, 2006 9:33:01 PM -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com> 
wrote:
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>> If I understand what you're saying, you're saying that the driver only
>> gets updated for the latest OS?  That seems a bit absurd to me.
>> Wouldn't the bge driver be the same for every OS version that it's
>> available for?
>>
>
> All parts of FreeBSD are constantly being worked on.  It is more correct
> to think of FreeBSD as a continuum, with the releases merely as defined
> points on the continuum.
>
> A number of people, in fact, run FreeBSD in such a way that every
> night a process on their system goes to the master CVS repository,
> and fetches any changes and updates that have been made, then applies
> them to their system.
>
If you're fetching src all with cvs on a RELENG version, are you getting 
the updates to drivers?  (I would think that you are.)

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
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