Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 14:50:03 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: scrappy@hub.org Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: HCL ... Message-ID: <14213.7435.257525.833900@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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[ moved to -chat ] > One of the guys I work with is asking me about a Hardware > Compatibility List for FreeBSD, and, sadly, other then the sparse lists in > the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/hw.html), I know of none. > > He pointed me to the following URL of what Linux/RedHat has > available, and am wondering if we have somethign similar floating around > out there: > > http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/hardware/intel/60/rh6.0-hcl-i.ld.html > This is one of the things I've been hoping to find time to start. I'm hoping that Jordan (or whoever) can host it under the FreeBSD, Inc. web area. Unfortunately I've not had the time to dedicate to the effort. I recently put together a PC that would dual-boot win98 (only when "needed") and FreeBSD. I wanted to have lots of "spiffy" hardware like a CD-RW and scanner, cool sound card, etc. It took me a LOOOOOOOONG time to do the research in our mailing lists, etc. to make sure that what I wanted to buy would be supported under 3.1 and then 3.2. I longed for an HCL .... My original idea was to send something out to -questions and maybe more lists that was basically a big questionaire of what people currently run, what they've tried that didn't run or work, if they had to patch the kernel to get something work, what did they do, etc. Only your imagination would limit how you could organize and search the information. But, I think as more people migrate from Linux to FreeBSD, they're gonna want to know how to setup XYZ piece of hardware--and equivalently as people come from other worlds or build up new PCs, or buy "canned" PCs, they're going to want to know what works and what doesn't work. I really do hope I'll have time in the future to try and start this effort! Any ideas? -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds CEG, CCE, Next Generation Flows, HLA | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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