Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:27:31 -0600 From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to> To: "Richard S. Conley" <rconley81@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: drivers and such Message-ID: <20010326162731.A2569@billygoat.slb.to> In-Reply-To: <OE181dyZSdA6kvAdxaQ0000505b@hotmail.com>; from rconley81@hotmail.com on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 04:20:29PM -0500 References: <OE181dyZSdA6kvAdxaQ0000505b@hotmail.com>
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> 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
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