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This document contains the hardware compatibility notes for FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT. It lists devices known to work on this platform, as well as some notes on boot-time kernel customization that may be useful when attempting to configure support for new devices.
This section provides some architecture-specific information about the specific processors and systems that are supported by each architecture.
Since mid-2003 FreeBSD/amd64 has supported the AMD64 (“Hammer”) and Intel EM64T architecture, and is now one of the Tier-1 platforms (fully supported architecture), which are expected to be Production Quality with respects to all aspects of the FreeBSD operating system, including installation and development environments.
Note that there are two names for this architecture, AMD64 (AMD) and Intel EM64T (Extended Memory 64-bit Technology). 64-bit mode of the two architectures are almost compatible with each other, and FreeBSD/amd64 should support them both.
As of this writing, the following processors are supported:
AMD Athlon64 (“Clawhammer”).
AMD Opteron (“Sledgehammer”).
Intel 64-bit Xeon (“Nacona”). This processor is fabricated on 90nm process technology, and operates with 2.80 to 3.60 GHz (FSB 800MHz) and Intel E7520/E7525/E7320 chipsets.
Intel Pentium 4 Processor supporting Intel EM64T (“Prescott”). This is fabricated on 90nm process technology, uses FC-LGA775 package, and operates with 3.20F/3.40F/3.60F GHz and Intel 925X Express chipsets. The corresponding S-Spec numbers are SL7L9, SL7L8, SL7LA, SL7NZ, SL7PZ, and SL7PX. Note that processors marked as 5xx numbers do not support EM64T.
Intel EM64T is an extended version of IA-32 (x86) and different from Intel IA-64 (Itanium) architecture, which FreeBSD/ia64 supports. Some Intel's old documentation refers to Intel EM64T as “64-bit extension technology” or “IA-32e”.
The largest tested memory configuration to date is 8GB. SMP support has been recently completed and is reasonably robust.
In many respects, FreeBSD/amd64 is similar to FreeBSD/i386, in terms of drivers supported. There may be some issues with 64-bit cleanliness in some (particularly older) drivers. Generally, drivers that already function correctly on other 64-bit platforms should work.
FreeBSD/amd64 is a very young platform on FreeBSD. While the core FreeBSD kernel and base system components are generally fairly robust, there are likely to still be rough edges, particularly with third party packages.
FreeBSD/i386 runs on a wide variety of “IBM PC compatible” machines. Due to the wide range of hardware available for this architecture, it is impossible to exhaustively list all combinations of equipment supported by FreeBSD. Nevertheless, some general guidelines are presented here.
Almost all i386-compatible processors with a floating point unit are supported. All Intel processors beginning with the 80486 are supported, including the 80486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, and variants thereof, such as the Xeon and Celeron processors. All i386-compatible AMD processors are also supported, including the Am486, Am5x86, K5, K6 (and variants), Athlon (including Athlon-MP, Athlon-XP, Athlon-4, and Athlon Thunderbird), and Duron processors. The AMD Élan SC520 embedded processor is supported. The Transmeta Crusoe is recognized and supported, as are i386-compatible processors from Cyrix and NexGen.
There is a wide variety of motherboards available for this architecture. Motherboards using the ISA, VLB, EISA, AGP, and PCI expansion busses are well-supported. There is some limited support for the MCA (“MicroChannel”) expansion bus used in the IBM PS/2 line of PCs.
Symmetric multi-processor (SMP) systems are generally supported by FreeBSD, although in some cases, BIOS or motherboard bugs may generate some problems. Perusal of the archives of the FreeBSD symmetric multiprocessing mailing list may yield some clues.
FreeBSD will take advantage of HyperThreading (HTT) support on Intel CPUs that support
this feature. A kernel with the options SMP feature enabled
will automatically detect the additional logical processors. The default FreeBSD
scheduler treats the logical processors the same as additional physical processors; in
other words, no attempt is made to optimize scheduling decisions given the shared
resources between logical processors within the same CPU. Because this naive scheduling
can result in suboptimal performance, under certain circumstances it may be useful to
disable the logical processors with the the machdep.hlt_logical_cpus sysctl variable. It is also possible to
halt any CPU in the idle loop with the machdep.hlt_cpus
sysctl variable. The
smp(4) manual
page has more details.
FreeBSD will take advantage of Physical Address Extensions (PAE) support on CPUs that support this feature. A kernel with the PAE feature enabled will detect memory above 4 gigabytes and allow it to be used by the system. This feature places constraints on the device drivers and other features of FreeBSD which may be used; consult the pae(4) manpage for more details.
FreeBSD will generally run on i386-based laptops, albeit with varying levels of support for certain hardware features such as sound, graphics, power management, and PCCARD expansion slots. These features tend to vary in idiosyncratic ways between machines, and frequently require special-case support in FreeBSD to work around hardware bugs or other oddities. When in doubt, a search of the archives of the FreeBSD laptop computer mailing list may be useful.
Most modern laptops (as well as many desktops) use the Advanced Configuration and Power Management (ACPI) standard. FreeBSD supports ACPI via the ACPI Component Architecture reference implementation from Intel, as described in the acpi(4) manual page. The use of ACPI causes instabilities on some machines and it may be necessary to disable the ACPI driver, which is normally loaded via a kernel module. This may be accomplished by adding the following line to /boot/device.hints:
hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
Users debugging ACPI-related problems may find it useful to disable portions of the ACPI functionality. The acpi(4) manual page has more information on how to do this via loader tunables.
ACPI depends on a Differentiated System Descriptor Table (DSDT) provided by each machine's BIOS. Some machines have bad or incomplete DSDTs, which prevents ACPI from functioning correctly. Replacement DSDTs for some machines can be found at the DSDT section of the ACPI4Linux project Web site. FreeBSD can use these DSDTs to override the DSDT provided by the BIOS; see the acpi(4) manual page for more information.
Currently supported processors are the Itanium and the Itanium 2.
Supported chipsets include:
HP zx1
Intel 460GX
Intel E8870
Both Uniprocessor (UP) and Symmetric Multi-processor (SMP) configurations are supported.
Most devices that can be found in or are compatible with ia64 machines are fully supported. The notable exception is the VGA console. The FreeBSD support for VGA consoles is at this time too much based on PC hardware and not all ia64 machines have chipsets that provide sufficient PC legacy support. As such syscons(4) can not be enabled and the use of a serial console is required.
NEC PC-9801/9821 series with almost all i386-compatible processors, including 80486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, and variants. All i386-compatible processors by AMD, Cyrix, IBM, and IDT are also supported.
NEC FC-9801/9821 series, and NEC SV-98 series (both of them are compatible with PC-9801/9821 series) should be supported.
EPSON PC-386/486/586 series, which are compatible with NEC PC-9801 series are supported.
High-resolution mode is not supported. NEC PC-98XA/XL/RL/XL^2, and NEC PC-H98 series are supported in normal (PC-9801 compatible) mode only.
Although there are some multi-processor systems (such as Rs20/B20), SMP-related features of FreeBSD are not supported yet.
PC-9801/9821 standard bus (called C-Bus), PC-9801NOTE expansion bus (110pin), and PCI bus are supported. New Extend Standard Architecture (NESA) bus (used in PC-H98, SV-H98, and FC-H98 series) is not supported.
This section describes the systems currently known to be supported by FreeBSD on the UltraSPARC platform. For background information on the various hardware designs see the Sun System Handbook.
SMP is supported on all systems with more than 1 processor.
If you have a system that is not listed here, it may not have been tested with FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT. We encourage you to try it and send a note to the FreeBSD SPARC porting mailing list with your results, including which devices work and which do not.
The following systems are fully supported by FreeBSD.
Blade 100
Blade 150
Enterprise 220R
Enterprise 250
Enterprise 420R
Enterprise 450
Fire V100
Fire V120
Netra t1 105
Netra T1 AC200/DC200
Netra t 1100
Netra t 1120
Netra t 1125
Netra t 1400/1405
Netra 120
Netra X1
SPARCEngine Ultra AXi
SPARCEngine Ultra AXmp
Ultra 1 (serial console)
Ultra 1E
Ultra 2
Ultra 5
Ultra 10
Ultra 30
Ultra 60
Ultra 80
The following systems are partially supported by FreeBSD. In particular the onboard scsi controller in sbus systems is not supported.
Enterprise 3500
Enterprise 4500
The following systems are not supported by FreeBSD. This may be due to lack of processor support (UltraSPARC III), due to a quirk in the system design that makes FreeBSD unstable, or due to lack of support for sufficient onboard devices to make FreeBSD generally useful.
All systems containing UltraSPARC III processor(s).
This section describes the devices currently known to be supported by FreeBSD. Other configurations may also work, but simply have not been tested yet. Feedback, updates, and corrections to this list are encouraged.
Where possible, the drivers applicable to each device or class of devices is listed. If the driver in question has a manual page in the FreeBSD base distribution (most should), it is referenced here. Information on specific models of supported devices, controllers, etc. can be found in the manual pages.
Note: The device lists in this document are being generated automatically from FreeBSD manual pages. This means that some devices, which are supported by multiple drivers, may appear multiple times.
[amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, sparc64] IDE/ATA controllers ( ata(4) driver)
[pc98] IDE/ATA controllers (wdc driver)
On-board IDE controller
The ahc(4) driver supports the following SCSI host adapter chips and SCSI controller cards:
Adaptec AIC7770 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7850 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7860 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7870 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7880 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7890 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7891 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7892 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7895 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7896 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7897 host adapter chip
Adaptec AIC7899 host adapter chip
Adaptec 274X(W)
Adaptec 274X(T)
Adaptec 284X
Adaptec 2910
Adaptec 2915
Adaptec 2920
Adaptec 2930C
Adaptec 2930U2
Adaptec 2940
Adaptec 2940J
Adaptec 2940N
Adaptec 2940U
Adaptec 2940AU
Adaptec 2940UW
Adaptec 2940UW Dual
Adaptec 2940UW Pro
Adaptec 2940U2W
Adaptec 2940U2B
Adaptec 2950U2W
Adaptec 2950U2B
Adaptec 19160B
Adaptec 29160B
Adaptec 29160N
Adaptec 3940
Adaptec 3940U
Adaptec 3940AU
Adaptec 3940UW
Adaptec 3940AUW
Adaptec 3940U2W
Adaptec 3950U2
Adaptec 3960
Adaptec 39160
Adaptec 3985
Adaptec 4944UW
NEC PC-9821Xt13 (PC-98)
NEC RvII26 (PC-98)
NEC PC-9821X-B02L/B09 (PC-98)
NEC SV-98/2-B03 (PC-98)
Many motherboards with on-board SCSI support
Controllers supported by the amr(4) driver include:
MegaRAID SATA 150-4
MegaRAID SATA 150-6
MegaRAID SATA 300-4X
MegaRAID SATA 300-8X
MegaRAID SCSI 320-1E
MegaRAID SCSI 320-2E
MegaRAID SCSI 320-4E
MegaRAID SCSI 320-0X
MegaRAID SCSI 320-2X
MegaRAID SCSI 320-4X
MegaRAID SCSI 320-0
MegaRAID SCSI 320-1
MegaRAID SCSI 320-2
MegaRAID SCSI 320-4
MegaRAID Series 418
MegaRAID i4 133 RAID
MegaRAID Elite 1500 (Series 467)
MegaRAID Elite 1600 (Series 493)
MegaRAID Elite 1650 (Series 4xx)
MegaRAID Enterprise 1200 (Series 428)
MegaRAID Enterprise 1300 (Series 434)
MegaRAID Enterprise 1400 (Series 438)
MegaRAID Enterprise 1500 (Series 467)
MegaRAID Enterprise 1600 (Series 471)
MegaRAID Express 100 (Series 466WS)
MegaRAID Express 200 (Series 466)
MegaRAID Express 300 (Series 490)
MegaRAID Express 500 (Series 475)
Dell PERC
Dell PERC 2/SC
Dell PERC 2/DC
Dell PERC 3/DCL
Dell PERC 3/QC
Dell PERC 4/DC
Dell PERC 4/IM
Dell PERC 4/SC
Dell PERC 4/Di
Dell PERC 4e/DC
Dell PERC 4e/Di
Dell PERC 4e/Si
Dell PERC 4ei
HP NetRAID-1/Si
HP NetRAID-3/Si (D4943A)
HP Embedded NetRAID
Intel RAID Controller SRCS16
Intel RAID Controller SRCU42X
Note: [amd64, i386] Booting from these controllers is supported. EISA adapters are not supported.
Cards supported by the isp(4) driver include:
ISP1000
ISP1020
ISP1040
Qlogic 1240
Qlogic 1020
Qlogic 1040
Qlogic 1080
Qlogic 1280
Qlogic 12160
Qlogic 210X
Qlogic 220X
Qlogic 2300
Qlogic 2312
Qlogic 234X
Qlogic 2322
Qlogic 200
Qlogic 2422
Qlogic 2432
Note: [amd64, i386] Booting from these controllers is supported. EISA adapters are not supported.
The following controllers are supported by the mpt(4) driver:
LSI Logic 53c1030, LSI Logic LSI2x320-X (Single and Dual Ultra320 SCSI)
LSI Logic AS1064, LSI Logic AS1068
LSI Logic FC909 (1Gb/s Fibre Channel)
LSI Logic FC909A (Dual 1Gb/s Fibre Channel)
LSI Logic FC919, LSI Logic 7102XP-LC (Single 2Gb/s Fibre Channel)
LSI Logic FC929, LSI Logic FC929X, LSI Logic 7202XP-LC (Dual 2Gb/s Fibre Channel)
LSI Logic FC949X (Dual 4Gb/s Fibre Channel)
The SCSI controller chips supported by the mpt(4) driver can be found onboard on many systems including:
Dell PowerEdge 1750 thru 2850
IBM eServer xSeries 335
These systems also contain Integrated Raid Mirroring and Integrated Raid Mirroring Enhanced which this driver also supports. The SAS controller chips are also present on many new AMD/Opteron based systems, like the Sun 4100. Note that this controller can drive both SAS and SATA drives or a mix of them at the same time. This driver also supports target mode for Fibre Channel cards. This support may be enabled by setting the desired role of the core via the LSI Logic firmware utility that establishes what roles the card can take on - no separate compilation is required.
The sym(4) driver provides support for the following Symbios/LSI Logic PCI SCSI controllers:
53C810
53C810A
53C815
53C825
53C825A
53C860
53C875
53C876
53C895
53C895A
53C896
53C897
53C1000
53C1000R
53C1010-33
53C1010-66
53C1510D
The SCSI controllers supported by sym(4) can be either embedded on a motherboard, or on one of the following add-on boards:
ASUS SC-200, SC-896
Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants)
DawiControl DC2976UW
Diamond FirePort (all)
I-O DATA SC-UPCI (PC-98)
Logitec LHA-521UA (PC-98)
NCR cards (all)
Symbios cards (all)
Tekram DC390W, 390U, 390F, 390U2B, 390U2W, 390U3D, and 390U3W
Tyan S1365
[i386] The wds(4) driver supports the WD7000 SCSI controller.
With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for SCSI-I, SCSI-II, and SCSI-III peripherals, including hard disks, optical disks, tape drives (including DAT, 8mm Exabyte, Mammoth, and DLT), medium changers, processor target devices and CD-ROM drives. WORM devices that support CD-ROM commands are supported for read-only access by the CD-ROM drivers (such as cd(4)). WORM/CD-R/CD-RW writing support is provided by cdrecord(1), which is a part of the sysutils/cdrtools port in the Ports Collection.
The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:
SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and SoundBlaster SCSI) (cd(4))
[i386] Sony proprietary interface (all models) ( scd(4))
ATAPI IDE interface ( acd(4))
[i386] The following device is unmaintained:
Mitsumi proprietary CD-ROM interface (all models) ( mcd(4))
[amd64, i386] Broadcom BCM4401 based Fast Ethernet adapters ( bfe(4) driver)
[amd64, i386] Crystal Semiconductor CS89x0-based NICs (cs(4) driver)
The dc(4) driver provides support for the following chipsets:
DEC/Intel 21143
ADMtek AL981 Comet, AN985 Centaur, ADM9511 Centaur II and ADM9513 Centaur II
ASIX Electronics AX88140A and AX88141
Conexant LANfinity RS7112 (miniPCI)
Davicom DM9009, DM9100, DM9102 and DM9102A
Lite-On 82c168 and 82c169 PNIC
Lite-On/Macronix 82c115 PNIC II
Macronix 98713, 98713A, 98715, 98715A, 98715AEC-C, 98725, 98727 and 98732
Xircom X3201 (cardbus only)
The following NICs are known to work with the dc(4) driver at this time:
3Com OfficeConnect 10/100B (ADMtek AN985 Centaur-P)
Abocom FE2500
Accton EN1217 (98715A)
Accton EN2242 MiniPCI
Adico AE310TX (98715A)
Alfa Inc GFC2204 (ASIX AX88140A)
Built in 10Mbps only Ethernet on Compaq Presario 7900 series desktops (21143, non-MII)
Built in Sun DMFE 10/100 Mbps Ethernet on Sun Netra X1 and Sun Fire V100 (DM9102A, MII)
Built in Ethernet on LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 Instant GigaDrive (DM9102, MII)
CNet Pro110B (ASIX AX88140A)
CNet Pro120A (98715A or 98713A) and CNet Pro120B (98715)
Compex RL100-TX (98713 or 98713A)
D-Link DFE-570TX (21143, MII, quad port)
Digital DE500-BA 10/100 (21143, non-MII)
ELECOM Laneed LD-CBL/TXA (ADMtek AN985)
Hawking CB102 CardBus
IBM EtherJet Cardbus Adapter
Intel PRO/100 Mobile Cardbus (versions that use the X3201 chipset)
Jaton XpressNet (Davicom DM9102)
Kingston KNE100TX (21143, MII)
Kingston KNE110TX (PNIC 82c169)
LinkSys LNE100TX (PNIC 82c168, 82c169)
LinkSys LNE100TX v2.0 (PNIC II 82c115)
LinkSys LNE100TX v4.0/4.1 (ADMtek AN985 Centaur-P)
Matrox FastNIC 10/100 (PNIC 82c168, 82c169)
Melco LGY-PCI-TXL
Microsoft MN-120 10/100 CardBus (ADMTek Centaur-C)
Microsoft MN-130 10/100 PCI (ADMTek Centaur-P)
NDC SOHOware SFA110A (98713A)
NDC SOHOware SFA110A Rev B4 (98715AEC-C)
NetGear FA310-TX Rev. D1, D2 or D3 (PNIC 82c169)
Netgear FA511
PlaneX FNW-3602-T (ADMtek AN985)
SMC EZ Card 10/100 1233A-TX (ADMtek AN985)
SVEC PN102-TX (98713)
Xircom Cardbus Realport
Xircom Cardbus Ethernet 10/100
Xircom Cardbus Ethernet II 10/100
The em(4) driver supports Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the Intel 82540, 82541ER, 82541PI, 82542, 82543, 82544, 82545, 82546, 82546EB, 82546GB, 82547, 82571, 82572 and 82573 controller chips:
Intel PRO/1000 CT Network Connection (82547)
Intel PRO/1000 F Server Adapter (82543)
Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Server Adapter (82542)
Intel PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter (82541PI)
Intel PRO/1000 MF Dual Port Server Adapter (82546)
Intel PRO/1000 MF Server Adapter (82545)
Intel PRO/1000 MF Server Adapter (LX) (82545)
Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter (82540)
Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter (82541)
Intel PRO/1000 MT Dual Port Server Adapter (82546)
Intel PRO/1000 MT Quad Port Server Adapter (82546EB)
Intel PRO/1000 MT Server Adapter (82545)
Intel PRO/1000 T Desktop Adapter (82544)
Intel PRO/1000 T Server Adapter (82543)
Intel PRO/1000 XF Server Adapter (82544)
Intel PRO/1000 XT Server Adapter (82544)
Adapters supported by the fxp(4) driver include:
Intel EtherExpress PRO/10
Intel InBusiness 10/100
Intel PRO/100B / EtherExpressPRO/100 B PCI Adapter
Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter
Intel PRO/100 VE Desktop Adapter
Intel PRO/100 VM Network Connection
Intel PRO/100 M Desktop Adapter
Intel PRO/100 S Desktop, Server and Dual-Port Server Adapters
Contec C-NET(PI)-100TX (PC-98)
NEC PC-9821Ra20, Rv20, Xv13, Xv20 internal 100Base-TX (PC-98)
NEC PC-9821X-B06 (PC-98)
Many on-board network interfaces on Intel motherboards
The hme(4) driver supports the on-board Ethernet interfaces of many Sun UltraSPARC workstation and server models. Cards supported by the hme(4) driver include:
Sun PCI SunSwift Adapter
Sun SBus SunSwift Adapter “( hme” and “SUNW,hme”)
Sun PCI Sun100BaseT Adapter 2.0
Sun SBus Sun100BaseT 2.0
Sun PCI Quad FastEthernet Controller
Sun SBus Quad FastEthernet Controller
The re(4) driver supports RealTek RTL8139C+, RTL8169, RTL816xS, RTL811xS, and RTL8101E based Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet adapters including:
Alloy Computer Products EtherGOLD 1439E 10/100 (8139C+)
Compaq Evo N1015v Integrated Ethernet (8139C+)
Corega CG-LAPCIGT Gigabit Ethernet (8169S)
D-Link DGE-528(T) Gigabit Ethernet (8169S)
Gigabyte 7N400 Pro2 Integrated Gigabit Ethernet (8110S)
LevelOne GNC-0105T (8169S)
LinkSys EG1032 (32-bit PCI)
PLANEX COMMUNICATIONS Inc. GN-1200TC (8169S)
USRobotics USR997902 Gigabit Ethernet (8169S)
Xterasys XN-152 10/100/1000 NIC (8169)
Adapters supported by the rl(4) driver include:
Accton “Cheetah” EN1207D (MPX 5030/5038; RealTek 8139 clone)
Allied Telesyn AT2550
Allied Telesyn AT2500TX
Belkin F5D5000
BUFFALO (Melco INC.) LPC-CB-CLX (CardBus)
Compaq HNE-300
CompUSA no-name 10/100 PCI Ethernet NIC
Corega FEther CB-TXD
Corega FEtherII CB-TXD
D-Link DFE-528TX
D-Link DFE-530TX+
D-Link DFE-538TX
D-Link DFE-690TXD
Edimax EP-4103DL CardBus
Encore ENL832-TX 10/100 M PCI
Farallon NetLINE 10/100 PCI
Genius GF100TXR
GigaFast Ethernet EE100-AXP
KTX-9130TX 10/100 Fast Ethernet
LevelOne FPC-0106TX
Longshine LCS-8038TX-R
NDC Communications NE100TX-E
Netronix Inc. EA-1210 NetEther 10/100
Nortel Networks 10/100BaseTX
OvisLink LEF-8129TX
OvisLink LEF-8139TX
Peppercon AG ROL-F
Planex FNW-3800-TX
SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI 1211-TX
SOHO (PRAGMATIC) UE-1211C
[amd64, i386, pc98] SMC 83c17x (EPIC)-based Ethernet NICs (tx(4) driver)
The xl(4) driver supports the following hardware:
3Com 3c900-TPO
3Com 3c900-COMBO
3Com 3c905-TX
3Com 3c905-T4
3Com 3c900B-TPO
3Com 3c900B-TPC
3Com 3c900B-FL
3Com 3c900B-COMBO
3Com 3c905B-T4
3Com 3c905B-TX
3Com 3c905B-FX
3Com 3c905B-COMBO
3Com 3c905C-TX
3Com 3c980, 3c980B, and 3c980C server adapters
3Com 3cSOHO100-TX OfficeConnect adapters
3Com 3c450 HomeConnect adapters
3Com 3c555, 3c556 and 3c556B mini-PCI adapters
3Com 3C3SH573BT, 3C575TX, 3CCFE575BT, 3CXFE575BT, 3CCFE575CT, 3CXFE575CT, 3CCFEM656, 3CCFEM656B, and 3CCFEM656C, 3CXFEM656, 3CXFEM656B, and 3CXFEM656C CardBus adapters
3Com 3c905-TX, 3c905B-TX 3c905C-TX, 3c920B-EMB, and 3c920B-EMB-WNM embedded adapters
Both the 3C656 family of CardBus cards and the 3C556 family of MiniPCI cards have a built-in proprietary modem. Neither the xl(4) driver nor any other driver supports this modem.
[i386, pc98] DEC DEFPA PCI ( fpa(4) driver)
[i386] DEC DEFEA EISA ( fpa(4) driver)
[i386, pc98] Midway-based ATM interfaces (en(4) driver)
[i386, pc98 sparc64] FORE Systems, Inc. PCA-200E ATM PCI Adapters (hfa and fatm(4) drivers)
[i386, pc98] IDT NICStAR 77201/211-based ATM Adapters ( idt(4) driver)
[i386, pc98 sparc64] FORE Systems, Inc. HE155 and HE622 ATM interfaces ( hatm(4) driver)
[i386, pc98] IDT77252-based ATM cards ( patm(4) driver)
[i386] NCR / AT&T / Lucent Technologies WaveLan T1-speed ISA/radio LAN cards (wl(4) driver)
[amd64, i386, pc98] Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11b wireless network adapters and workalikes using the Lucent Hermes, Intersil PRISM-II, Intersil PRISM-2.5, Intersil Prism-3, and Symbol Spectrum24 chipsets (wi(4) driver)
[amd64, i386, pc98] Cisco/Aironet 802.11b wireless adapters (an(4) driver)
[i386, pc98] Raytheon Raylink 2.4GHz wireless adapters ( ray(4) driver)
[i386] Granch SBNI12 point-to-point communications adapters ( sbni(4) driver)
[i386] Granch SBNI16 SHDSL modems ( sbsh(4) driver)
[i386] AcerISDN P10 ISA PnP (experimental)
[i386] Asuscom ISDNlink 128K ISA
[i386] ASUSCOM P-IN100-ST-D (and other Winbond W6692-based cards)
[i386] AVM
A1
B1 ISA (tested with V2.0)
B1 PCI (tested with V4.0)
Fritz!Card classic
Fritz!Card PnP
Fritz!Card PCI
Fritz!Card PCI, Version 2
T1
[i386] Creatix
ISDN-S0
ISDN-S0 P&P
[i386] Compaq Microcom 610 ISDN (Compaq series PSB2222I) ISA PnP
[i386] Dr. Neuhaus Niccy Go@ and compatibles
[i386] Dynalink IS64PPH and IS64PPH+
[i386] Eicon Diehl DIVA 2.0 and 2.02
[i386] ELSA
ELSA PCC-16
QuickStep 1000pro ISA
MicroLink ISDN/PCI
QuickStep 1000pro PCI
[i386] ITK ix1 Micro ( < V.3, non-PnP version )
[i386] Sedlbauer Win Speed
[i386] Siemens I-Surf 2.0
[i386] TELEINT ISDN SPEED No.1 (experimental)
[i386] Teles
S0/8
S0/16
S0/16.3
S0/16.3 PnP
16.3c ISA PnP (experimental)
Teles PCI-TJ
[i386] Traverse Technologies NETjet-S PCI
[i386] USRobotics Sportster ISDN TA intern
[i386] Winbond W6692 based PCI cards
[amd64 i386] “PC standard” 8250, 16450, and 16550-based serial ports ( sio(4) driver)
The uart(4) driver supports the following classes of UARTs:
NS8250: standard hardware based on the 8250, 16450, 16550, 16650, 16750 or the 16950 UARTs.
SCC: serial communications controllers supported by the scc(4) device driver.
The scc(4) driver supports the following classes of SCCs:
SAB82532: Siemens SAB 82532 based serial communications controllers.
Z8530: Zilog 8530 based serial communications controllers.
[amd64 i386] AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ
[i386] ARNET serial cards (ar(4) driver)
ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ
ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial
[i386] Boca multi-port serial cards
Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems not supported)
Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported)
Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems not supported)
Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported)
[i386] Comtrol Rocketport card (rp(4) driver)
[i386] Cyclades Cyclom-Y serial board (cy(4) driver)
[i386] STB 4 port card using shared IRQ
[i386] DigiBoard intelligent serial cards (digi driver)
[amd64, i386, ia64] PCI-Based multi-port serial boards ( puc(4) driver)
[amd64 i386] Actiontech 56K PCI
[amd64 i386] Avlab Technology, PCI IO 2S and PCI IO 4S
[amd64 i386] Comtrol RocketPort 550
[amd64 i386] Decision Computers PCCOM 4-port serial and dual port RS232/422/485
[ia64] Diva Serial (GSP) Multiport UART
[amd64 i386] Dolphin Peripherals 4025/4035/4036
[amd64 i386] IC Book Labs Dreadnought 16x Lite and Pro
[amd64 i386] Lava Computers 2SP-PCI/DSerial-PCI/Quattro-PCI/Octopus-550
[amd64 i386] Middle Digital, Weasle serial port
[amd64 i386] Moxa Industio CP-114, Smartio C104H-PCI and C168H/PCI
[amd64 i386] NEC PK-UG-X001 and PK-UG-X008
[amd64 i386] Netmos NM9835 PCI-2S-550
[amd64 i386] Oxford Semiconductor OX16PCI954 PCI UART
[amd64 i386] Syba Tech SD-LAB PCI-4S2P-550-ECP
[amd64 i386] SIIG Cyber I/O PCI 16C550/16C650/16C850
[amd64 i386] SIIG Cyber 2P1S PCI 16C550/16C650/16C850
[amd64 i386] SIIG Cyber 2S1P PCI 16C550/16C650/16C850
[amd64 i386] SIIG Cyber 4S PCI 16C550/16C650/16C850
[amd64 i386] SIIG Cyber Serial (Single and Dual) PCI 16C550/16C650/16C850
[amd64 i386] Syba Tech Ltd. PCI-4S2P-550-ECP
[amd64 i386] Titan PCI-200H and PCI-800H
[amd64 i386] US Robotics (3Com) 3CP5609 modem
[amd64 i386] VScom PCI-400 and PCI-800
[i386, amd64] Specialix SI/XIO/SX multiport serial cards, with both the older SIHOST2.x and the “enhanced” (transputer based, aka JET) host cards (ISA, EISA and PCI) are supported. Note that the newer SX+ PCI cards are not currently supported. (si(4) driver)
[pc98] Internel serial interfaces ( sio(4) driver)
PC-9801 on-board
PC-9821 2'nd CCU (flags 0x12000000)
[pc98] NEC PC-9861K, PC-9801-101 and Midori-Denshi MDC-926Rs ( sio(4) driver)
COM2 (flags 0x01000000)
COM3 (flags 0x02000000)
[pc98] NEC PC-9801-120 ( sio(4) driver)
Note: "flags 0x11000000" is necessary in kernel configuration.
[pc98] Microcore MC-16550, MC-16550II, MC-RS98 ( sio(4) driver)
Note: "flags 0x14000?01" is necessary in kernel configuration.
[pc98] Media Intelligent RSB-2000, RSB-3000 and AIWA B98-02 ( sio(4) driver)
Note: "flags 0x15000?01" is necessary in kernel configuration.
[pc98] Media Intelligent RSB-384 ( sio(4) driver)
Note: "flags 0x16000001" is necessary in kernel configuration.
[pc98] I-O DATA RSA-98III ( sio(4) driver)
Note: "flags 0x18000?01" is necessary in kernel configuration.
[pc98] Hayes ESP98 ( sio(4) driver)
Note: "options COM_ESP" and "flags 0x19000000" are necessary in kernel configuration.
[pc98] NEC PC-9801-73, 86 and compatibles (nss driver)
NEC A-MATE internal sound
Q-Vision WaveStar, WaveMaster
[pc98] NEC X-MATE, CanBe, ValueStar internal (mss driver)
[pc98] Creative Technologies SoundBlaster(98) (sb(4) driver)
[pc98] I-O DATA CD-BOX (sb(4) driver)
[pc98] MPU-401 and compatible interfaces (mpu driver)
Q-Vision WaveStar
[amd64, i386, ia64, pc98] A range of USB peripherals are supported; devices known to work are listed in this section. Owing to the generic nature of most USB devices, with some exceptions any device of a given class will be supported, even if not explicitly listed here.
Note: [amd64, i386, ia64, pc98] USB Ethernet adapters can be found in the section listing Ethernet interfaces.
Note: [amd64, i386, ia64, pc98] USB Bluetooth adapters can be found in Bluetooth section.
[amd64, i386, ia64, pc98] USB 2.0 controllers using the EHCI interface ( ehci(4) driver)
[amd64, i386, ia64, pc98] Hubs
[amd64, i386, ia64, pc98] Keyboards ( ukbd(4) driver)
[amd64, i386, pc98] Miscellaneous
Assist Computer Systems PC Camera C-M1
ActiveWire I/O Board
Creative Technology Video Blaster WebCam Plus
D-Link DSB-R100 USB Radio ( ufm(4) driver)
Mirunet AlphaCam Plus
[amd64, i386, ia64, pc98] Mice ( ums(4) driver)
The umct(4) driver supports the following adapters:
Belkin F5U109
Belkin F5U409
D-Link DU-H3SP USB BAY Hub
Magic Control Technology USB-232
Sitecom USB-232
[amd64, i386, pc98] Audio Devices ( uaudio(4) driver)
[amd64, i386, sparc64] Serial Bus Protocol 2 (SBP-2) storage devices ( sbp(4) driver)
[amd64, i386, pc98] FAX-Modem/PCCARD
MELCO IGM-PCM56K/IGM-PCM56KH
Nokia Card Phone 2.0 (gsm900/dcs1800 HSCSD terminal)
[amd64, i386, pc98] Floppy drives ( fdc(4) driver)
[amd64 i386] VGA-compatible video cards ( vga(4) driver)
Note: Information regarding specific video cards and compatibility with Xorg can be found at http://www.x.org/.
[amd64, i386, ia64, pc98] Keyboards including:
[i386] AT-style keyboards ( atkbd(4) driver)
[amd64, i386] PS/2 keyboards ( atkbd(4) driver)
[pc98] Standard keyboards
[amd64, i386, ia64, pc98] USB keyboards ( ukbd(4) driver)
[amd64, i386, ia64, pc98] Pointing devices including:
[amd64, i386, pc98] Bus mice and compatible devices ( mse(4) driver)
[amd64, i386] PS/2 mice and compatible devices, including many laptop pointing devices ( psm(4) driver)
Serial mice and compatible devices
[amd64, i386, ia64, pc98] USB mice ( ums(4) driver)
Note: moused(8) has more information on using pointing devices with FreeBSD. Information on using pointing devices with Xorg can be found at http://www.x.org/.
[amd64, i386] “PC standard” parallel ports ( ppc(4) driver)
[pc98] “PC-9821 standard” parallel ports ( ppc(4) driver)
[i386, amd64] PC-compatible joysticks ( joy(4) driver)
[pc98] Joystick port of SoundBlaster(98) ( joy(4) driver)
[i386, pc98] PHS Data Communication Card/PCCARD
NTT DoCoMo P-in Comp@ct
Panasonic KX-PH405
SII MC-P200
[i386] Xilinx XC6200-based reconfigurable hardware cards compatible with the HOT1 from Virtual Computers (xrpu driver).
[pc98] Power Management Controller of NEC PC-98 Note (pmc driver)
[sparc64] OpenFirmware console (ofwcons driver)
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