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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!disgorge.news.demon.net!demon!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!arg1.demon.co.uk!server.arg.sj.co.uk!nobody From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: upgrading to FreeBSD 2.2.x (Was: Hard Disk Maintenance) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 01:20:28 +0100 Message-ID: <335C044C.41C67EA6@net-tel.co.uk> References: <5j8r78$r4l$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> <slrn5lkdmq.o9p.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> <5jf7i5$e5v$1@gonzo.sun3.iaf.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 29 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39477 Geert Bosch wrote: > Hmmm... a few weeks ago I got my FreeBSD 2.1.6 CD from Walnut Creek > and somehow I get the impression that I have a very outdated version. > Today I will get an ISDN connection and I wonder whether it is possible > to get my Teles 16.3 card to work with this version of FreeBSD. I've BISDN-097 will work with 2.1.6 (I believe it is on the CD in the /experiment directory). > heard that bisdn version 0.97u also supports PPP over ISDN, which my > ISP uses. AFAIK, 0.97u is a private development version. PPP patches however are available for the base BISDN-097. However, they are available for FreeBSD-Current or for FreeBSD-2.2.x, not for 2.1.6. See http://www.arg1.demon.co.uk/ or the main ISDN ftp site at ftp://ftp.muc.ditec.de/isdn > In case I need to upgrade my kernel to 2.2.1, can I just update the > kernel or are many user-land programs dependent on the kernel version? No. Lots of user-land programs are indeed dependent on the kernel > The reason I ask this is that I don't like downloading the full > FreeBSD 2.2.1 release from the net when I have a CD-ROM subscription. If you have a CD-ROM subscription, 2.2.1 will be along shortly - mine arrived this morning.