Date: Sat, 11 Dec 99 06:11:45 +0000 From: jedi@ripnet.com To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion Message-ID: <199912111111.GAA02666@mail.ripnet.com>
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Yeah, I know. Or I'm well enough off. My concern is that the Supported Hardware Misc section in the handbook is completey blank, no devices what-so- ever listed. Shouldn't there be a listing of previously tried devices there? Surely someone has documented something? As for the chip SmartLink's (distributed as archtek in the USA I think) are listed with "UPT (RJ-45) & BNC, Realtek chip Adrian > -On [19991211 04:01], jedi (jedi@brockville.com) wrote: > >There may be more I'm not seeing, but your hardware compatibility could > >stand to list more devices. For example I'd like to buy SmartLink (I > >have the chipsets) NICs before I next boot my BSD box, but the listing > >for NICs doesn't seem to be available > >(http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/hw.html). > > Ehm. > > Let me take some time to explain this better. > > 1) We are an Open Source community > 2) We write (almost) everything ourselves > 3) This includes device drivers > 4) All hardware listed on the hardware list are currently > (well-)supported within FreeBSD > 5) unsupported devices need hackers/developers to create the device > drivers. > > So basically you either write your own driver and let the community test > it, or you give a likewise card to a certain developer and try to pry > loose documentation from the company so that he/she can hack together a > driver. > > Also, what chipset is it? 10 to 1 Bill Paul wrote a driver for it. > > -- > Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl] > Documentation nutter. *BSD: Technical excellence at its best... > The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; > Atone me to my throes curtail... > --------------------------------------------- RipNET WebMail http://www.ripnet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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