hardware revision 1.13 1 NetBSD/i386 _VER runs on ISA (AT-Bus), EISA, PCI, and VL-bus systems
2 with 386-family processors, with or without math coprocessors. It
3 does NOT support MCA systems, such as some IBM PS/2 systems. The
4 minimal configuration is said to require 4M of RAM and 50M of disk
5 space, though we do not know of anyone running with a system quite
6 this minimal today. To install the entire system requires much more
7 disk space (the unpacked binary distribution, without sources,
8 requires at least 65M without counting space needed for swap space,
9 etc), and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended.
10 (4M of RAM will actually allow you to run X and/or compile, but it
11 won't be speedy. Note that until you have around 16M of RAM, getting
12 more RAM is more important than getting a faster CPU.)
13
14 Supported devices include:
15 Floppy controllers.
16 MFM, ESDI, IDE, and RLL hard disk controllers.
17 SCSI host adapters:
18 Adaptec AHA-154xA, -B, -C, and -CF
19 Adaptec AHA-174x
20 Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, including
21 the Adaptec AHA-152x and the SoundBlaster SCSI
22 host adapter. (Note that you cannot boot from
23 these boards if they do not have a boot ROM;
24 only the AHA-152x and motherboards using this chip
25 are likely to be bootable, consequently.)
26 Adaptec AHA-2x4x[U][W] cards and some onboard PCI designs
27 using the AIC78X0 chip. There is a known problem
28 using this driver with AHA-2742 cards or AIC7770 or
29 AIC78[56]0 based embedded designs and multiple
30 targets, due to resource contention which is not
31 handled well by NetBSD's higher-level SCSI subsystem.
32 Adaptec AHA-3940[U][W] cards [b]
33 Buslogic 54x (Adaptec AHA-154x clones)
34 BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx (But not the new "FlashPoint" series
35 of BusLogic SCSI adapters)
36 Seagate/Future Domain ISA SCSI adapter cards, including
37 ST01/02
38 Future Domain TMC-885
39 Future Domain TMC-950
40 Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx-based PCI SCSI host adapters:
41 Acculogic PCIpport
42 ASUS SC-200 (requires NCR BIOS on motherboard to
43 boot from disks)
44 ASUS SP3[G] motherboard onboard SCSI
45 DEC Celebris XL/590 onboard SCSI
46 Lomas Data SCSI adapters
47 NCR/SYM 8125 (and its many clones; be careful, some
48 of these cards have a jumper to set
49 the PCI interrupt; leave it on INT A!)
50 Promise DC540 (a particularly common OEM model of
51 the SYM 8125)
52 Tyan Yorktown
53 Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f
54 Western Digital WD7000 SCSI host adapters (ISA cards only)
55 [NOTE: The WD7000 driver is not present on the "small"
56 floppies.]
57
58 MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters. (Note that not
59 all of the display adapters NetBSD/i386 can work with
60 are supported by X. See the XFree86 FAQ for more
61 information.)
62 Serial ports:
63 8250/16450-based ports
64 16550/16650/16750-based ports
65 AST-style 4-port serial cards [*]
66 BOCA 8-port serial cards [*]
67 IBM PC-RT 4-port serial cards [*]
68 Single-port Hayes ESP serial cards [*]
69 Parallel ports.
70 Ethernet adapters:
71 AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA Ethernet adapters [*], including:
72 Novell NE1500T
73 Novell NE2100
74 Kingston 21xx
75 AMD PCnet-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
76 Addtron AE-350
77 BOCALANcard/PCI
78 SVEC FD0455
79 X/Lan Add-On Adapter
80 IBM #13H9237 PCI Ethernet Adapter
81 AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
82 3COM 3c501
83 3COM 3c503
84 3COM 3c505 [*]
85 3COM 3c507
86 3COM 3c509, 3c579, and 3c59X
87 Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
88 Cogent EM1X0, EM960 (a.k.a. Adaptec ANA-69XX)
89 Cogent EM964 [b]
90 Cogent EM4XX [b]
91 Compex Readylink PCI
92 DANPEX EN-9400P3
93 Digital Celebris GL, GLST on-board ethernet
94 Digital (DEC) PCI Ethernet/Fast Ethernet adapters (all)
95 JCIS Condor JC1260
96 Linksys PCI Fast Ethernet
97 SMC EtherPower 10, 10/100 (PCI only!)
98 SMC EtherPower^2 [b]
99 SVEC PN0455
100 SVEC FD1000-TP
101 Znyx ZX34X
102 Digital EtherWORKS III ISA adapters (DE203/DE204/DE205)
103 BICC Isolan [* and not recently tested]
104 Intel EtherExpress 16
105 Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 [*]
106 SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards
107 SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards)
108 Novell NE1000, NE2000
109 Texas Intruments Thunderland based ethernet board:
110 Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX
111 Compaq ProLiant Integrated Netelligent 10/100 TX
112 Compaq Netelligent 10 T (untested)
113 Compaq Integrated NetFlex 3/P
114 Compaq NetFlex 3/P w/ BNC (untested)
115 Compaq NetFlex 3/P (untested)
116 Compaq Dual Port Netelligent 10/100 TX (untested)
117 Compaq Deskpro 4000 5233MMX (untested)
118 FDDI adapters:
119 Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters [*] [+]
120 Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adapters [*] [+]
121 Tape drives:
122 Most SCSI tape drives
123 QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek-
124 compatible) tape drives [*] [+]
125 CD-ROM drives:
126 Non-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] [+]
127 [Note: The Mitsumi driver device probe is known
128 to cause trouble with several devices!]
129 Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
130 Most ATAPI CD-ROM drives.
131 [ Note: Some low-priced IDE CDROM drives are known
132 for being not or not fully ATAPI compliant, and thus
133 requires some hack (generally an entry to a quirk
134 table) to work with NetBSD.]
135 Mice:
136 "Logitech"-style bus mice [*] [+]
137 "Microsoft"-style bus mice [*] [+]
138 "PS/2"-style mice [*] [+]
139 Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
140 Sound Cards:
141 SoundBlaster [*] [+]
142 Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+]
143 (But not Gravis Ultrasound Plug&Play)
144 [The following drivers are not extensively tested]
145 Personal Sound System [*] [+]
146 Windows Sound System [*] [+]
147 ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+]
148 Miscellaneous:
149 Advanced power management (APM)
150
151 Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT present in kernels on the
152 distribution floppies. Except as noted above, all drivers are present
153 on all disks. Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
154 support only one SCSI host adapter per machine. NetBSD normally
155 allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
156 them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.
157
158
159 Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
160 although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
161
162 Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
163 bridging on your motherboard. Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
164 have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
165
166 Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
167 about:
168 AMD PCscsi SCSI host adapters (though the PCnet portion of the
169 PCnet-SCSI works fine)
170 Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters.
171 Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems. (Though they should
172 run fine using one processor only.)
173 NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
174 PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
175 PCMCIA ("PC Card") devices, including some miniature "IDE" hard disks.
176 [Note: some higly experimental PCMCIA support is available on our
177 FTP sites]
178 QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives. (Those are the tape drives
179 that connect to the floppy disk controller.)
180
181 We are planning future support for many of these devices.
182
183 To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
184 be configured as follows:
185
186 Device Name Port IRQ DRQ Misc
187 ------ ---- ---- --- --- ----
188 Serial ports com0 0x3f8 4 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
189 com1 0x2f8 3 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
190 com2 0x3e8 5 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
191
192 Parallel ports lpt0 0x378 7 [interrupt-driven or polling]
193 lpt1 0x278 [polling only]
194 lpt2 0x3bc [polling only]
195
196 Floppy controller
197 fdc0 0x3f0 6 2 [supports two disks]
198
199 AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
200 aha0 0x330 any any
201 aha1 0x334 any any
202
203 AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
204 ahb0 any any any
205
206 AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
207 aic0 0x340 11 6
208
209 AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
210 ahc0 any any any
211
212 Bus Logic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
213 bt0 0x330 any any
214 bt1 0x334 any any
215
216 Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
217 ncr0 any any any
218
219 Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
220 uha0 0x330 any any
221 uha1 0x334 any any
222
223 Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
224 wds0 0x350 15 6
225 wds1 0x358 11 5
226
227 MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
228 wdc0 0x1f0 14 [supports two devices]
229 wdc1 0x170 15 [supports two devices]
230
231 ATA disks wd0, wd1, ...
232 SCSI disks sd0, sd1, ...
233 SCSI tapes st0, st1, ...
234 SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROMs cd0, cd1, ...
235 For each SCSI and IDE controller found, the SCSI or ATA(PI) devices
236 present on the bus are probed in increasing id order for SCSI and
237 master/slave order for ATA(PI). So the first SCSI drive found will
238 be called sd0, the second sd1, and so on ...
239
240 SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards, 3c503,
241 Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
242 ed0 0x280 2 iomem 0xd0000
243 ed1 0x250 2 iomem 0xd8000
244 ed2 0x300 10 iomem 0xcc000
245
246 3COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
247 ep0 any any
248
249 3COM 3x59X PCI Ethernet boards
250 ep0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
251 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
252
253 AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
254 EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
255 ie0 0x360 7 iomem 0xd0000
256 ie1 0x300 10 iomem 0xd0000
257
258 PCnet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
259 le0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
260 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
261
262 DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
263 de0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
264 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
265
266 Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205)
267 lc0 any any
268