RE: ie ethernet device driver

2001-07-05 Thread steve . d . meacham
You're right. The driver is still listed in a number of places including man, LINT, the source, etc. However, it is unusable because it has been removed from isa_compat.h so it cannot be recognized by the OS. In addition, there is an intermittent bug (PR 16214) with the driver. There is a f

RE: BIND-9.x

2001-07-02 Thread steve . d . meacham
Even though about 1/3 of my FreeBSD installs need to run DNS servers, I'd be happy to see it removed from the base system. My understanding was that the version kept in the base system is what the committers and dev team consider the most stable, secure and compatible release. This, of course

Best time to cvsup -STABLE

2001-06-25 Thread steve . d . meacham
I'd like to know if there is a time window where -STABLE is most likely to not be getting updated. This should allow us to avoid grabbing and building source that by chance has some changes only partially checked in and then getting strange behaviour or build errors. I heard mention on this l