2 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-hardwareHardware suitable for freebsd 6.3 stable| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Melkor.kp | Feb 3, 2008 8:30 am | |
| John Baldwin | Feb 4, 2008 7:10 am |
| Subject: | Hardware suitable for freebsd 6.3 stable | |
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| From: | John Baldwin (jh...@freebsd.org) | |
| Date: | Feb 4, 2008 7:10:21 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-hardware | |
On Sunday 03 February 2008 11:05:27 am Melkor.kp wrote:
Hello folks!
I am new in the FreeBSD community, and I need to install a freebsd remotely on a server via ssh so it's vital to know if the freebsd stable 6.3 version will boot will boot with the machine hardware. I don't know how normally the hardware list is presented when freebsd community talk about these problems, so I will use the linux lspci to show the machine hardware.
Without device ID's one can't know for certain, but a machine of this age should be fine.
This is the output:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
Host bridges, APICs, PCI-ISA bridges, and PCI-PCI bridges don't require special drivers, so they should all just work fine.
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 5337 (rev 80) 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
This should work fine with the ata(4) driver.
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0) 00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
USB host controllers have a generic spec, so they should work fine with the normal USB drivers (uhci(4) and ehci(4)).
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c)
vr(4) should support this. It supports Rhine-I/II/III parts.
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Chrome9 HC IGP (rev 01)
If the box is remote, then VGA doesn't matter, and it would be up to X to support this anyway.
I think you should be fine and that the GENERIC kernel should boot fine on the box.
-- John Baldwin