From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 11 17:48:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AB1037BD0C for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:48:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13C94e-000OeQ-00; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 00:04:20 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13C94d-000DWU-00; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 00:04:19 +0100 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 00:04:19 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Me Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compatibility Message-ID: <20000712000419.A11000@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <000801bfeb7d$e711b540$0c4011d4@telekabel.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rPH0Y77Oimr1cvNq" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <000801bfeb7d$e711b540$0c4011d4@telekabel.at> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --rPH0Y77Oimr1cvNq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Me wrote: > Considering i'm new to the FreeBSD project, let alone Unix > itself or any related *nix Operating system, I'm not sure that > my hardware is supported by FreeBSD. Is it at all possible to > obtain configuration files for hardware that's not listed in > http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/hardware.html such as an ATI graphics card > or a 3ComEtherlink Network card? That should be supported. I have three computers with ATI graphics cards, and one with a 3Com Etherlink network card, and both work flawlessly. Your hardware *should* work the the standard FreeBSD kernel. Just because it's not listed doesn't mean it won't work. --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D --rPH0Y77Oimr1cvNq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: 2pmkDg4+GltfzLjz+DRusohfCUBpNnMO iQCVAwUBOWun8isPVtiZOS99AQGcMwP5AdkiGbSSc36cgHGhme4cRZzUYR313Cgj wx/yY+c8d19/aq35E2OpQQpZQcOitGm2/3yCdXpfAuWTNFrYvXMs3+9f6YWbqx7u o/O0FY7tkWw4aaZKu+Mfg5ybxEb/i/T9/1Lj2kGXFuzyDm8OG52sT0qT+1e5OHCc L8n4FcDcPHw= =4gwa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rPH0Y77Oimr1cvNq-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message