Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:34:14 +0000 From: Tom Judge <tom@tomjudge.com> To: Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> Cc: navneet Upadhyay <navneet.upadhyay@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Latest Stable FreeBSD release and is it supported on dell 2950 Message-ID: <47976C86.4080902@tomjudge.com> In-Reply-To: <7F4D1F22-92F4-4F44-BC14-D51C880D7A0C@kcilink.com> References: <1563a4fd0801222130x1374589bv96184b442682dd6@mail.gmail.com> <7F4D1F22-92F4-4F44-BC14-D51C880D7A0C@kcilink.com>
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Vivek Khera wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2008, at 12:30 AM, navneet Upadhyay wrote: <SNIP> >> >> >> 6. Which platform/machine which BSD supports. Is Dell 2950 ok > > I've only ever had one compatibility issue with a Dell, and that was > easily fixed by teaching the bge ethernet driver the name of the chipset > used on that particular box. I have a PE1900 here we just got and it > runs 7.0-RC1 quite nicely. > > In general, unless you're running some obscure devices, FreeBSD works > just fine with most systems. PE2950's use the bce driver, which works fine with 6.3+ Tom J
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