Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:10:33 -0400 From: "Chris Haulmark" <chris@sigd.net> To: "dick" <rhomp2002@earthlink.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Question on Hardware support Message-ID: <6FC9F9894A9F8C49A722CF9F2132FC22110BB6BF@ms05.mailstreet2003.net> In-Reply-To: <47FDA45E.6090201@earthlink.net> References: <47FDA45E.6090201@earthlink.net>
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Hello fella, >=20 > I am trying to find the hardware support list for the releases and have > been unsuccessful. Any ideas where to look for this? >=20 > My reason is that I have a new computer with the ASUS motherboard in an > Intel Core2 Duo configuration. This board has an ATTANSIC Technology > Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter on it which apparently is fairly new > and may not be supported. I have found with Linux that the Debian > distros, the Gentoo distros and the SUSE distros all support this > (Ubuntu, Mepis, Open SUSE, Sabayon, OpenGEU) while the Slackware ones > will in the next release. I would like to use the BSD release if it > can > support this ethernet adapter but the older PC-BSD did not. Is there a > release that does include this ethernet device? I have been looking > for > something that lists the hardware supported and I keep running into > something that says check the release to see the hardware support info > but so far all I find is that notice. I don't find the hardware > support > list anywhere. You can see here for the hardware release notes: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/relnotes.html However, your NIC is not included but there is development pending it in freebsd-current@ The direct link is to: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-March/084174.htm l Chris=20 >=20 > Thanks. >=20 > Dick Thompson > rhomp2002@earthlink.net > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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