From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 12:44:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D15F416A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:44:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A093943D1F for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:43:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id i0CKhWuI018756; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:43:32 +0200 Message-Id: <200401122043.i0CKhWuI018756@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 12 Jan 04 22:43:32 +0200 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 12 Jan 04 22:43:04 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: Joe Schmoe Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:43:04 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20040112034023.51078.qmail@web21510.mail.yahoo.com> cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best practices - USB 2.0 PCI card and gigabit ethernet PCI c X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:44:03 -0000 Hi! > I am running freebsd 4.9 and want to add: > > - a USB 2.0 PCI card AFAIK, FreeBSD 4.9 only supports USB 1.0. Depending on what you want to do, there are two options: - upgrade to 5.x, which supports USB 2.0 (but is possibly a bit too "cutting edge") - use FireWire devices instead of USB 2.0. FireWire is supported in FreeBSD 4.9 -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * It's always darkest right before you step on the cat.