hardware revision 1.18 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, Adaptec AHA-1460 (PCMCIA),
22 and the SoundBlaster SCSI host adapter. (Note
23 that you cannot boot from these boards if they
24 do not have a boot ROM; only the AHA-152x and
25 motherboards using this chip are likely to be
26 bootable, consequently.)
27 Adaptec AHA-2x4x[U][W] cards and some onboard PCI designs
28 using the AIC78X0 chip.
29 Adaptec AHA-3940[U][W] cards [b]
30 Buslogic 54x (Adaptec AHA-154x clones)
31 BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx (But not the new "FlashPoint" series
32 of BusLogic SCSI adapters)
33 Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters
34 Qlogic ISP [12]0x0 SCSI/FibreChannel boards
35 Seagate/Future Domain ISA SCSI adapter cards, including
36 ST01/02
37 Future Domain TMC-885
38 Future Domain TMC-950
39 Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx-based PCI SCSI host adapters:
40 Acculogic PCIpport
41 ASUS SC-200 (requires NCR BIOS on motherboard to
42 boot from disks)
43 ASUS SP3[G] motherboard onboard SCSI
44 DEC Celebris XL/590 onboard SCSI
45 Lomas Data SCSI adapters
46 NCR/SYM 8125 (and its many clones; be careful, some
47 of these cards have a jumper to set
48 the PCI interrupt; leave it on INT A!)
49 Promise DC540 (a particularly common OEM model of
50 the SYM 8125)
51 Tyan Yorktown
52 Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f
53 Western Digital WD7000 SCSI and TMC-7000 host adapters
54 (ISA cards only)
55
56 MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters. (Note that not
57 all of the display adapters NetBSD/i386 can work with
58 are supported by X. See the XFree86 FAQ for more
59 information.)
60 Serial ports:
61 8250/16450-based ports
62 16550/16650/16750-based ports
63 AST-style 4-port serial cards [*]
64 BOCA 8-port serial cards [*]
65 IBM PC-RT 4-port serial cards [*]
66 Single-port Hayes ESP serial cards [*]
67 Parallel ports.
68 Ethernet adapters:
69 AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA Ethernet adapters [*], including:
70 Novell NE1500T
71 Novell NE2100
72 Kingston 21xx
73 AMD PCnet-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
74 Addtron AE-350
75 BOCALANcard/PCI
76 SVEC FD0455
77 X/Lan Add-On Adapter
78 IBM #13H9237 PCI Ethernet Adapter
79 AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
80 3COM 3c501
81 3COM 3c503
82 3COM 3c505 [*]
83 3COM 3c507
84 3COM 3c509, 3c579, and 3c59X
85 3COM 3c589
86 Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
87 Cogent EM1X0, EM960 (a.k.a. Adaptec ANA-69XX)
88 Cogent EM964 [b]
89 Cogent EM4XX [b]
90 Compex Readylink PCI
91 DANPEX EN-9400P3
92 Digital Celebris GL, GLST on-board ethernet
93 Digital (DEC) PCI Ethernet/Fast Ethernet adapters (all)
94 JCIS Condor JC1260
95 Linksys PCI Fast Ethernet
96 SMC EtherPower 10, 10/100 (PCI only!)
97 SMC EtherPower^2 [b]
98 SVEC PN0455
99 SVEC FD1000-TP
100 Znyx ZX34X
101 Digital EtherWORKS III ISA adapters (DE203/DE204/DE205)
102 Digital DEPCM-BA (PCMCIA) and DE305 (ISA) NE2000-compat. cards
103 BICC Isolan [* and not recently tested]
104 Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A based cards:
105 Fujitsu FMV-180 series
106 Allied-Telesis AT1700 series
107 Allied-Telesis RE2000 series
108 Intel EtherExpress 16
109 Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 [*]
110 Novell NE1000, NE2000 (ISA, PCI, PCMCIA, ISA PnP)
111 SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards
112 SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards)
113 SMC91C9x-based boards (ISA and PCMCIA)
114 Texas Intruments ThunderLAN based ethernet boards:
115 Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX
116 Compaq ProLiant Integrated Netelligent 10/100 TX
117 Compaq Netelligent 10 T (untested)
118 Compaq Integrated NetFlex 3/P
119 Compaq NetFlex 3/P w/ BNC (untested)
120 Compaq NetFlex 3/P (untested)
121 Compaq Dual Port Netelligent 10/100 TX (untested)
122 Compaq Deskpro 4000 5233MMX (untested)
123 FDDI adapters:
124 Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters [*] [+]
125 Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adapters [*] [+]
126 Tape drives:
127 Most SCSI tape drives
128 QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek-
129 compatible) tape drives [*] [+]
130 CD-ROM drives:
131 Non-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] [+]
132 [Note: The Mitsumi driver device probe is known
133 to cause trouble with several devices!]
134 Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
135 Most ATAPI CD-ROM drives.
136 [ Note: Some low-priced IDE CDROM drives are known
137 for being not or not fully ATAPI compliant, and thus
138 requires some hack (generally an entry to a quirk
139 table) to work with NetBSD.]
140 Mice:
141 "Logitech"-style bus mice [*] [+]
142 "Microsoft"-style bus mice [*] [+]
143 "PS/2"-style mice [*] [+]
144 Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
145 Sound Cards:
146 SoundBlaster [*] [+]
147 Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+]
148 (But not Gravis Ultrasound Plug&Play)
149 [The following drivers are not extensively tested]
150 Personal Sound System [*] [+]
151 Windows Sound System [*] [+]
152 ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+]
153 Miscellaneous:
154 Advanced power management (APM)
155
156 Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT present in kernels on the
157 distribution floppies. Except as noted above, all drivers are present
158 on all disks. Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
159 support only one SCSI host adapter per machine. NetBSD normally
160 allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
161 them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed.
162
163
164 Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
165 although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
166
167 Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI
168 bridging on your motherboard. Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards
169 have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
170
171 Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
172 about:
173 AMD PCscsi SCSI host adapters (though the PCnet portion of the
174 PCnet-SCSI works fine)
175 Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems. (Though they should
176 run fine using one processor only.)
177 NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
178 PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
179 QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives. (Those are the tape drives
180 that connect to the floppy disk controller.)
181
182 We are planning future support for many of these devices.
183
184 To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
185 be configured as follows:
186
187 Device Name Port IRQ DRQ Misc
188 ------ ---- ---- --- --- ----
189 Serial ports com0 0x3f8 4 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
190 com1 0x2f8 3 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
191 com2 0x3e8 5 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
192
193 Parallel ports lpt0 0x378 7 [interrupt-driven or polling]
194 lpt1 0x278 [polling only]
195 lpt2 0x3bc [polling only]
196
197 Floppy controller
198 fdc0 0x3f0 6 2 [supports two disks]
199
200 AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
201 aha0 0x330 any any
202 aha1 0x334 any any
203
204 AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
205 ahb0 any any any
206
207 AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
208 aic0 0x340 11 6
209
210 AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
211 ahc0 any any any
212
213 Bus Logic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
214 bha0 0x330 any any
215 bha1 0x334 any any
216
217 Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters
218 ncr0 any any any
219
220 Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
221 uha0 0x330 any any
222 uha1 0x334 any any
223
224 Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
225 wds0 0x350 15 6
226 wds1 0x358 11 5
227
228 MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
229 wdc0 0x1f0 14 [supports two devices]
230 wdc1 0x170 15 [supports two devices]
231
232 ATA disks wd0, wd1, ...
233 SCSI disks sd0, sd1, ...
234 SCSI tapes st0, st1, ...
235 SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROMs cd0, cd1, ...
236 For each SCSI and IDE controller found, the SCSI or ATA(PI) devices
237 present on the bus are probed in increasing id order for SCSI and
238 master/slave order for ATA(PI). So the first SCSI drive found will
239 be called sd0, the second sd1, and so on ...
240
241 3Com 3c503 Ethernet cards
242 ec0 0x250 9 iomem 0xd8000
243
244 Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
245 ne0 0x280 9
246 ne1 0x300 10
247
248 SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards
249 we0 0x280 9 iomem 0xd0000
250 we1 0x300 10 iomem 0xcc000
251
252 3COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
253 ep0 any any
254
255 3COM 3x59X PCI Ethernet boards
256 ep0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
257 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
258
259 AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel
260 EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards
261 ie0 0x360 7 iomem 0xd0000
262 ie1 0x300 10 iomem 0xd0000
263
264 Intel EtherExpress PRO 10 ISA
265 iy0 any any
266
267 SMC91C9x based Ethernet cards
268 sm0 0x300 10
269
270 PCnet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
271 le0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
272 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
273
274 DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
275 de0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
276 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
277
278 Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205)
279 lc0 any any
280