From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 27 6:12:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from threespace.com (server44.aitcom.net [208.234.0.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC45D37B419 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 06:12:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from vwinxp.threespace.com (ip68-11-176-217.br.no.cox.net [68.11.176.217]) by threespace.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA16491 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:18:59 -0500 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020326214528.01de06e0@threespace.com> X-Sender: tech@threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:33:17 -0600 To: FreeBSD Chat From: Chip Morton Subject: Re: Got a new server, installing FreeBSD on it In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020325160158.01e10960@threespace.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020325160158.01e10960@threespace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 05:01 AM 3/26/2002, you wrote: >Network cards shouldn't be a problem, except for Cardbus PC-Cards, >which aren't supported in -STABLE. What cards did you have trouble >with? > >As for video cards, XFree86 4 almost always gets them right (use X >--configure to generate a skeleton config), the only problem is >(usually) to get the sync ranges right if your monitor isn't PnP; but >even that is a breeze if you have the manual. To be fair, my troubles with FreeBSD hardware compatibility were largely in the pre-3.0-RELEASE days. I had some quirky ISA cards--a network card, a sound card with an attachment for a proprietary CD-ROM--that were difficult to configure under Windows; getting them to work in FreeBSD was out of the question. When I got to the point that I started purchasing my own hardware components, everything was chosen to be FreeBSD-compatible from the outset. So I didn't encounter any difficulties after that, partly because FreeBSD supported more hardware, but partly because I paid more attention to compatibility up front. Nowadays it seems that most major vendors' cards are supported in both network and video. PCI has eased a lot of the pain of ISA. Plug-and-Play has made everyone's life much easier. But I would still check the compatibility lists before I threw FreeBSD/XFree86 at my cutting-edge hardware. << Chip Morton >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message