hardware revision 1.8
1 NetBSD/i386 1.2G 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) 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 host adapters (ISA cards only) 54 [NOTE: The WD7000 driver is not present on the "small" 55 floppies.] 56 57 MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters. (Note that not 58 all of the display adapters NetBSD/i386 can work with 59 are supported by X. See the XFree86 FAQ for more 60 information.) 61 Serial ports: 62 8250/16450-based ports 63 16550/16650/16750-based ports 64 AST-style 4-port serial cards [*] 65 BOCA 8-port serial cards [*] 66 IBM PC-RT 4-port serial cards [*] 67 Single-port Hayes ESP serial cards [*] 68 Parallel ports. 69 Ethernet adapters: 70 AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA Ethernet adapters [*], including: 71 Novell NE1500T 72 Novell NE2100 73 Kingston 21xx 74 AMD PCnet-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including: 75 Addtron AE-350 76 BOCALANcard/PCI 77 SVEC FD0455 78 X/Lan Add-On Adapter 79 IBM #13H9237 PCI Ethernet Adapter 80 AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber 81 3COM 3c501 82 3COM 3c503 83 3COM 3c505 [*] 84 3COM 3c507 85 3COM 3c509, 3c579, and 3c59X 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 BICC Isolan [* and not recently tested] 102 Intel EtherExpress 16 103 Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 [*] 104 SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards 105 SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards) 106 Novell NE1000, NE2000 107 FDDI adapters: 108 Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters [*] [+] 109 Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adapters [*] [+] 110 Tape drives: 111 Most SCSI tape drives 112 QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek- 113 compatible) tape drives [*] [+] 114 CD-ROM drives: 115 Non-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] [+] 116 [Note: The Mitsumi driver device probe is known 117 to cause trouble with several devices!] 118 Most SCSI CD-ROM drives 119 Mice: 120 "Logitech"-style bus mice [*] [+] 121 "Microsoft"-style bus mice [*] [+] 122 "PS/2"-style mice [*] [+] 123 Serial mice (no kernel support necessary) 124 Sound Cards: 125 SoundBlaster [*] [+] 126 Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+] 127 (But not Gravis Ultrasound Plug&Play) 128 [The following drivers are not extensively tested] 129 Personal Sound System [*] [+] 130 Windows Sound System [*] [+] 131 ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+] 132 Miscellaneous: 133 APM power management 134 135 Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT included on the 136 distribution floppies. Except as noted above, all drivers are present 137 on all disks. Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels 138 support only one SCSI host adapter per machine. NetBSD normally 139 allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of 140 them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is installed. 141 142 143 Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels, 144 although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies. 145 146 Support for devices marked with "[b]" requires BIOS support for PCI-PCI 147 bridging on your motherboard. Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards 148 have this support, or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade. 149 150 Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions 151 about: 152 AMD PCscsi SCSI host adapters (though the PCnet portion of the 153 PCnet-SCSI works fine) 154 Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters. 155 Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems. (Though they should 156 run fine using one processor only.) 157 NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters. 158 PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters. 159 PCMCIA ("PC Card") devices, including some miniature "IDE" hard disks. 160 [Note: some higly experimental PCMCIA support is available on our 161 FTP sites] 162 QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives. (Those are the tape drives 163 that connect to the floppy disk controller.) 164 165 We are planning future support for many of these devices. 166 167 To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must 168 be configured as follows: 169 170 Device Name Port IRQ DRQ Misc 171 ------ ---- ---- --- --- ---- 172 Serial ports com0 0x3f8 4 [8250/16450/16550/clones] 173 com1 0x2f8 3 [8250/16450/16550/clones] 174 com2 0x3e8 5 [8250/16450/16550/clones] 175 176 Parallel ports lpt0 0x378 7 [interrupt-driven or polling] 177 lpt1 0x278 [polling only] 178 lpt2 0x3bc [polling only] 179 180 MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controller 181 wdc0 0x1f0 14 [supports two disks] 182 183 Floppy controller 184 fdc0 0x3f0 6 2 [supports two disks] 185 186 AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters 187 aha0 0x330 any any 188 aha1 0x334 any any 189 190 AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode) 191 ahb0 any any any 192 193 AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters 194 aic0 0x340 11 6 195 196 AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters 197 ahc0 any any any 198 199 Bus Logic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters 200 bt0 0x330 any any 201 bt1 0x334 any any 202 203 Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx based PCI SCSI host adapters 204 ncr0 any any any 205 206 Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters 207 uha0 0x330 any any 208 uha1 0x334 any any 209 210 Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters 211 wds0 0x350 15 6 212 wds1 0x358 11 5 213 214 SCSI disks sd0 first SCSI disk (by SCSI id) 215 sd1 second SCSI disk (by SCSI id) 216 sd2 third SCSI disk (by SCSI id) 217 sd3 fourth SCSI disk (by SCSI id) 218 219 SCSI tapes st0 first SCSI tape (by SCSI id) 220 st1 second SCSI tape (by SCSI id) 221 222 SCSI CD-ROMs cd0 first SCSI CD-ROM (by SCSI id) 223 cd1 second SCSI CD-ROM (by SCSI id) 224 225 SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards, 3c503, 226 Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards 227 ed0 0x280 2 iomem 0xd0000 228 ed1 0x250 2 iomem 0xd8000 229 ed2 0x300 10 iomem 0xcc000 230 231 3COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards 232 ep0 any any 233 234 3COM 3x59X PCI Ethernet boards 235 ep0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your 236 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you] 237 238 AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, 3COM 3c507 or Intel 239 EtherExpress 16 Ethernet boards 240 ie0 0x360 7 iomem 0xd0000 241 ie1 0x300 10 iomem 0xd0000 242 243 PCnet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list 244 le0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your 245 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you] 246 247 DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list 248 de0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your 249 PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you] 250
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