From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 26 14:27:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com (dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com [64.193.218.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A77BA37B718 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:27:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lucas@slb.to) Received: (qmail 29209 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Mar 2001 22:27:32 -0000 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:27:31 -0600 From: Lucas Bergman To: "Richard S. Conley" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: drivers and such Message-ID: <20010326162731.A2569@billygoat.slb.to> Reply-To: lucas@slb.to References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rconley81@hotmail.com on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 04:20:29PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am interested in FreeBSD, but I am unsure of where I would get > drivers for my hardware. Does BSD use the same drivers as linux, or > other unix variants? No. > I know that most companies have linux drivers now for pc > hardware..but I have never seen BSD drivers. That's because few companies write drivers for their hardware for *BSD (just like most companies don't write drivers for their hardware for Linux). Luckily, lots of volunteers have written loads of drivers for *BSD, just like for Linux. Check http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-hw.html to see if your hardware is supported (or what to buy if it's not). Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message