Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 18:50:34 +0000 From: Rod Taylor <dark@idiotswitch.org> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HCL ... Message-ID: <99070818513000.04596@a11.idiotswitch.org> References: <14213.7435.257525.833900@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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I'd be interested in helping with this. However, I don't know SHTML (yet). On Thu, 08 Jul 1999, John Reynolds~ wrote: > [ moved to -chat ] > > > One of the guys I work with is asking me about a Hardware > > Compatibility List for FreeBSD, and, sadly, other then the sparse lists in > > the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/hw.html), I know of none. > > > > He pointed me to the following URL of what Linux/RedHat has > > available, and am wondering if we have somethign similar floating around > > out there: > > > > http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/hardware/intel/60/rh6.0-hcl-i.ld.html > > > > This is one of the things I've been hoping to find time to start. I'm hoping > that Jordan (or whoever) can host it under the FreeBSD, Inc. web > area. Unfortunately I've not had the time to dedicate to the effort. > > I recently put together a PC that would dual-boot win98 (only when "needed") > and FreeBSD. I wanted to have lots of "spiffy" hardware like a CD-RW and > scanner, cool sound card, etc. It took me a LOOOOOOOONG time to do the > research in our mailing lists, etc. to make sure that what I wanted to buy > would be supported under 3.1 and then 3.2. I longed for an HCL .... > > My original idea was to send something out to -questions and maybe more > lists that was basically a big questionaire of what people currently run, > what they've tried that didn't run or work, if they had to patch the kernel > to get something work, what did they do, etc. Only your imagination would > limit how you could organize and search the information. > > But, I think as more people migrate from Linux to FreeBSD, they're gonna > want to know how to setup XYZ piece of hardware--and equivalently as people > come from other worlds or build up new PCs, or buy "canned" PCs, they're > going to want to know what works and what doesn't work. > > I really do hope I'll have time in the future to try and start this > effort! > > Any ideas? > > -Jr > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > | John Reynolds CEG, CCE, Next Generation Flows, HLA | > | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 868-6512 | > | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it. -Al Capone -- Rod Taylor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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