From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 5 11:07:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8425616A4CE; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:07:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E2F43D78; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:06:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i05J5T6T080961; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 13:05:29 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3FF9B566.6040202@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 13:05:10 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Devenoges References: <20040105053153.GA4776@devenoges.com> <20040105165632.GA75907@intruder.kitchenlab.org> <20040105173632.GA786@devenoges.com> In-Reply-To: <20040105173632.GA786@devenoges.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: "Bruce A. Mah" cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: supported hardware X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 19:07:20 -0000 Christoph Devenoges wrote: >++ Bruce A. Mah wrote on Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:56:32AM -0800 : > > >>I (with the help of several other folks) have been trying to move >>instances of specific devices out of the hardware list (where it >>largely duplicates the content in manual pages) into the manual pages. >> >> >> > >its nice to have a single list of supported hardware, i always use't to >print this out and take it along shopping. > >googling for "freebsd supported hardware list" doesent really give >anything usefull, > >linux has stuff like http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 ... > >not that i would have anything to do with an os like that though. > >might it be possible to create the compleate list from the individual >man pages? does anybody see a need for a freebsd version of the >mandrake example? > > This was mentioned in the past, and I started work on something similar.. Although I haven't had a whole bunch of time to devote to it yet, I have at least begun. I could use some help entering devices into a db once I'm finished though - any takers? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------