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In article <slrn8e2626.2klm.ben@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>, Ben
Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> writes
>Tom Bird wrote:
>
>> I downloaded the FreeBSD CD image and it looks "promising".  The X
>> support was second to none with all the latest servers and window
>> managers (and associated libraries) but the rest of it isn't quite up to
>> scratch yet.
>
>What doesn't look up to scratch about it? Which CD image did you
>download by the way?

It didn't like my 486's network card (Realtek 8019) which is supposedly
NE2000 compatible, completely missed the replacement I found for it
which was stamped "Netware Certified" and known working, both cards had
at some time worked perfectly under Linux on the same machine, no decent
/proc stuff, shite default shell.  I suppose it's 90% me being used to
Linux.

Apart from stuff like that it was sort of fun.

I think I got version 3.4.

>> The kernel doesn't (officially) do SMP
>
>First I've heard of it (but then I have no SMP machines, so I haven't
>investigated it much). I think the SMP support in -current has just been
>improved, and may well be merged to -stable in time for 4.1.
>
>> and it didn't want to know about my cheapy 100Mbps Realtek network
>> card.
>
>That would surprise me. How does Linux identify your card? If it's an
>RTL8139 try the "rl" driver. FreeBSD is certainly happy enough with my
>cheapy 10/100 Realtek 8139 card. (I only use it at 10Mbps though, and
>all the other machines use Realtek 8029, aka NE2000 compatible.)

It's an RTL8139 straight into a 100Mbps switch.  I didn't play that long
really, I'm sure I could have persuaded it eventually.

>> I eagerly await version 4.00.
>
>I thought it was already released, though I got a bit lost with all the
>delays.

Might have been but I couldn't get the CD image.

TB               Busby the Cat 1984 - 22.9.1999