Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:06:22 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: dick <rhomp2002@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question on Hardware support Message-ID: <47FDAE5E.6010109@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <47FDA45E.6090201@earthlink.net> References: <47FDA45E.6090201@earthlink.net>
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dick wrote: > I am trying to find the hardware support list for the releases and > have been unsuccessful. Any ideas where to look for this? > > My reason is that I have a new computer with the ASUS motherboard in > an Intel Core2 Duo configuration. This board has an ATTANSIC > Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter on it which apparently is > fairly new and may not be supported. I have found with Linux that the > Debian distros, the Gentoo distros and the SUSE distros all support > this (Ubuntu, Mepis, Open SUSE, Sabayon, OpenGEU) while the Slackware > ones will in the next release. I would like to use the BSD release if > it can support this ethernet adapter but the older PC-BSD did not. Is > there a release that does include this ethernet device? I have been > looking for something that lists the hardware supported and I keep > running into something that says check the release to see the hardware > support info but so far all I find is that notice. I don't find the > hardware support list anywhere. > > Thanks. > > Dick Thompson > rhomp2002@earthlink.net > You will find the relevant info here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html Concerning the Attansic, my eeepc has a 100Mbit one, which is not supported. Yours is probably unsupported too.
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