From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 10:08:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA20508 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 10:08:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from ulantris.infinop.com (root@ulantris.infinop.com [205.230.144.80]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA20495 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 10:07:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from john@localhost) by ulantris.infinop.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA06865; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 12:22:39 -0600 From: "John A. Booth" Message-Id: <199601041822.MAA06865@ulantris.infinop.com> Subject: Re: buying a computer, will it work? To: johna@mail.bbcc.ctc.edu Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 12:22:38 -0600 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19960104073330.04801aab.in@mail.bbcc.ctc.edu> from "John Anderson" at Dec 31, 95 09:04:29 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk These are the only components you should have trouble with (with FreeBSD 2.1) I don't believe the 3COM PCI cards are supported, you might want to check into the SMC 9332 (10/100 Etherpower card), or any of the 10 megabit SMC's should be supported as well. NE2000 compatible cards are supported although (among several other brands). > 3 Com PCI 32 Bits Ethernet Card I think there is IDE support for drives cd-roms, but am not sure if this one is supported, (if it's SCSI it should be no problem). I think the 4x Toshiba is a SoundBlaster compatible cd-rom. It can be attached to either an 8-bit card that probably comes with it, or the interface on the soundblaster cards that support the SB compatible rom drives. > Toshiba 4X CD-Rom Anyone else have any suggestions/comments/corrections?