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VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
RELEASE NOTES
5.0 versions
2000-03-15 09:01:06 +00:00
FreeBSD Release 5.0-SNAP
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
5.0 versions
2000-03-15 09:01:06 +00:00
This is a 5.0-CURRENT release SNAPshot of FreeBSD, an active
Update release notes to current reality.
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development branch which will produce its first release in early
5.0 versions
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March 2001. Those features which have also been back-ported to
the 4.x-stable branch (the next release for which will be 4.1)
Update release notes to current reality.
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are marked [MERGED].
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
Any installation failures or crashes should be reported by using the
send-pr command (those preferring a Web-based interface can also see
http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html).
5.0 versions
2000-03-15 09:01:06 +00:00
For information about FreeBSD and the layout of the 5.0-RELEASE
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
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directory (especially if you're installing from floppies!), see
ABOUT.TXT. For installation instructions, see the INSTALL.TXT and
HARDWARE.TXT files.
5.0 versions
2000-03-15 09:01:06 +00:00
For the latest of these 5.0-current snapshots, you should always see:
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD
Gut the release notes now that we have a clean slate again. The supported hardware still looks to be lagging in the alpha file. People, please try and keep these in better sync this time!
2000-03-25 07:09:48 +00:00
If you wish to get the latest post-4.x-RELEASE technology.
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
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Table of contents:
------------------
Gut the release notes now that we have a clean slate again. The supported hardware still looks to be lagging in the alpha file. People, please try and keep these in better sync this time!
2000-03-25 07:09:48 +00:00
1. What's new since the 4.0/5.0 branch
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
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1.1 KERNEL CHANGES
1.2 SECURITY FIXES
1.3 USERLAND CHANGES
2. Supported Configurations
2.1 Disk Controllers
2.2 Ethernet cards
From the PR: 1. Correct FTP site for 4.0-stable snapshots and delete sentence fragment immediately following. [ not applicable to HEAD ] 2. Add FDDI section to table of contents (see #5 below) and add one line of whitespace. 3. In userland section, document csh->tcsh, more->less, and colorized ls. 4. In Ethernet section, do: s/gigabit ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/ s/fast ethernet/Fast Ethernet/ s/ethernet/Ethernet/ 5. Pull DEC DEFPA/DEFEA *FDDI* cards out of the *Ethernet* section and into their own second-level section. 6. Add missing period in section header in ATM section. 7. Tweak upgrading sectio with some new text, not sure if this is much better though. 8. Add a blurb about the -stable mailing list. [ changed to -current list in HEAD ] PR: 20015 Submitted by: Bruce A. Mah <bmah@cisco.com>
2000-07-19 00:05:59 +00:00
2.3 FDDI
2.4 ATM
2.5 Misc
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
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3. Obtaining FreeBSD
3.1 FTP/Mail
3.2 CDROM
4. Upgrading from previous releases of FreeBSD
5. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code
From the PR: 1. Correct FTP site for 4.0-stable snapshots and delete sentence fragment immediately following. [ not applicable to HEAD ] 2. Add FDDI section to table of contents (see #5 below) and add one line of whitespace. 3. In userland section, document csh->tcsh, more->less, and colorized ls. 4. In Ethernet section, do: s/gigabit ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/ s/fast ethernet/Fast Ethernet/ s/ethernet/Ethernet/ 5. Pull DEC DEFPA/DEFEA *FDDI* cards out of the *Ethernet* section and into their own second-level section. 6. Add missing period in section header in ATM section. 7. Tweak upgrading sectio with some new text, not sure if this is much better though. 8. Add a blurb about the -stable mailing list. [ changed to -current list in HEAD ] PR: 20015 Submitted by: Bruce A. Mah <bmah@cisco.com>
2000-07-19 00:05:59 +00:00
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
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6. Acknowledgements
Gut the release notes now that we have a clean slate again. The supported hardware still looks to be lagging in the alpha file. People, please try and keep these in better sync this time!
2000-03-25 07:09:48 +00:00
1. What's new since the 4.0/5.0 branch
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
--------------------------------------
5.0 versions
2000-03-15 09:01:06 +00:00
All changes described here are unique to the 5.0 branch unless
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
specifically marked as [MERGED] features.
Gut the release notes now that we have a clean slate again. The supported hardware still looks to be lagging in the alpha file. People, please try and keep these in better sync this time!
2000-03-25 07:09:48 +00:00
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
1.1. KERNEL CHANGES
-------------------
Add blurb about kqueue to the release notes.
2000-05-06 02:33:44 +00:00
A new event notification facility called kqueue was added to the
FreeBSD kernel. This is a new interface which is able to replace
poll/select, offering improved performance, as well as the ability
to report many different types of events. Support for monitoring
changes in sockets, pipes, fifos, and files are present, as well as
for signals and processes. [MERGED]
Add mention of extended attributes in release notes. Suggested by: kkenn
2000-04-16 20:06:11 +00:00
Support for named extended attributes was added to the FreeBSD kernel.
This allows the kernel, and appropriately privileged userland processes,
to tag files and directories with attribute data. Extended attributes
were added to support the TrustedBSD Project, in particular ACLs,
capability data, and mandatory access control labels.
Note the presence of POSIX.1b Shared Memory Objects. There's got to be a better way to handle cross-architecture kernel changes.
2000-04-22 15:36:56 +00:00
POSIX.1b Shared Memory Objects are now supported. The implementation
uses regular files, but automatically enables the MAP_NOSYNC flag
Reflect the MFC of: Posix.1b shared memory objects, OpenSSL 0.9.5a, routed 2.22.
2000-09-01 16:39:02 +00:00
when they are mmap(2)ed. [MERGED]
Note the presence of POSIX.1b Shared Memory Objects. There's got to be a better way to handle cross-architecture kernel changes.
2000-04-22 15:36:56 +00:00
Add support for the National Semiconductor DP83815 fast ethernet controller chip. This chip is currently being used on the NetGear FA312-TX adapter, which I guess is a replacement for the FA310-TX (PNIC-based). I added support for this chip by modifying the sis driver since the SiS 900 and the NS DP83815 have almost the same programming interface (the RX filter programming and PHY access methods are different, but the general configuration, DMA scheme and register layout are identical). I would have had this done a lot sooner, but getting the damn MAC address out of the EEPROM proved to be more complicated than expected.
2000-07-06 06:02:04 +00:00
Added support for PCI ethernet adapters based on the National Semiconductor
DP83815 chipset, including the NetGear FA312-TX.
Add IPv6 related info. Suggested by: kris Reviewed by: kris
2000-03-08 09:04:06 +00:00
Make the following additional entries to RELNOTES.TXT files: alpha: tap driver, accept_filters, ata support for ATA100, routed update to 2.22, truncate(1), syslogd(8) -n option, kenv(1), periodic(8) controlled by periodic.conf, logger(1) support for remote syslogs. i386: tap driver, accept_filters, ata support for ATA100, routed update to 2.22, truncate(1), syslogd(8) -n option, kenv(1), periodic(8) controlled by periodic.conf, boot98cfg(8), logger(1) support for remote syslogs. PR: 20628 Submitted by: bmah@cisco.com (Bruce A. Mah) Reviewed by: nik
2000-08-23 16:40:34 +00:00
The tap driver, a virtual Ethernet device driver for bridged
configurations, has been added. [MERGED]
accept_filters, a kernel feature to reduce overheads when accepting
and reading new connections on listening sockets, has been added.
[MERGED]
The ata(4) driver now has experimental support for ATA100 controllers.
Document AS1200 ("Tincup") as tested successfully.
2000-09-02 10:14:05 +00:00
AlphaServer 1200 ("Tincup") has been tested and works OK. Currently it does
not want to boot from CD or floppy but a transplanted disk that was
installed on another Alpha works well. [MERGED]
Make the following additional entries to RELNOTES.TXT files: alpha: tap driver, accept_filters, ata support for ATA100, routed update to 2.22, truncate(1), syslogd(8) -n option, kenv(1), periodic(8) controlled by periodic.conf, logger(1) support for remote syslogs. i386: tap driver, accept_filters, ata support for ATA100, routed update to 2.22, truncate(1), syslogd(8) -n option, kenv(1), periodic(8) controlled by periodic.conf, boot98cfg(8), logger(1) support for remote syslogs. PR: 20628 Submitted by: bmah@cisco.com (Bruce A. Mah) Reviewed by: nik
2000-08-23 16:40:34 +00:00
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
1.2. SECURITY FIXES
-------------------
Add IPv6 related info. Suggested by: kris Reviewed by: kris
2000-03-08 09:04:06 +00:00
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
1.3. USERLAND CHANGES
---------------------
Mention Joe Karthauser's addition of the "cdid" command to cdcontrol(1).
2000-07-15 13:08:23 +00:00
cdcontrol(1) now supports a "cdid" command, which calculates and
displays the CD serial number, using the same algorithm used by the CDDB
Mark cdcontrol's "cdid" command as [MERGED].
2000-07-19 16:05:37 +00:00
database. [MERGED]
Mention Joe Karthauser's addition of the "cdid" command to cdcontrol(1).
2000-07-15 13:08:23 +00:00
Add a note about exclusion support in mtree(8).
2000-05-16 17:13:59 +00:00
mtree(8) now includes support for a file listing pathnames to be excluded
when creating and verifying prototypes. This makes it easier to use
mtree as a part of an intrusion-detection system. [MERGED]
Add IPv6 related info. Suggested by: kris Reviewed by: kris
2000-03-08 09:04:06 +00:00
Add blurbs about OpenSSL, OPIE and OpenSSH updates.
2000-06-09 08:19:44 +00:00
OpenSSL has been upgraded to 0.9.5a, which includes numerous bugfixes
Reflect the MFC of: Posix.1b shared memory objects, OpenSSL 0.9.5a, routed 2.22.
2000-09-01 16:39:02 +00:00
and enhancements. [MERGED]
Add blurbs about OpenSSL, OPIE and OpenSSH updates.
2000-06-09 08:19:44 +00:00
- Note that a few entries have been merged over to -stable. - Add a note about having USB support out of the box.
2000-07-14 17:27:52 +00:00
The OPIE one-time-password suite has been updated to 2.32. [MERGED]
Add blurbs about OpenSSL, OPIE and OpenSSH updates.
2000-06-09 08:19:44 +00:00
OpenSSH has been upgraded to 2.1.0, which provides support for the
SSH2 protocol, including DSA keys. Therefore, OpenSSH users in the US
no longer need to rely on the restrictively-licensed RSAREF toolkit
which is required to handle RSA keys. OpenSSH 2.1 interoperates well
with other SSH2 clients and servers, including the ssh2 port. See
- Note that a few entries have been merged over to -stable. - Add a note about having USB support out of the box.
2000-07-14 17:27:52 +00:00
http://www.openssh.com for more details. [MERGED]
Add blurbs about OpenSSL, OPIE and OpenSSH updates.
2000-06-09 08:19:44 +00:00
OpenSSH can now authenticate using OPIE passwords in SSH1 mode.
- Note that a few entries have been merged over to -stable. - Add a note about having USB support out of the box.
2000-07-14 17:27:52 +00:00
Support is not yet available in SSH2 mode. [MERGED]
Support for USB devices was added to the GENERIC kernel and to the
installation programs to support USB devices out of the box. Note that
SRM does not support USB devices at the moment, so you must still use
an AT keyboard if you are not using a serial console. [MERGED]
Add IPv6 related info. Suggested by: kris Reviewed by: kris
2000-03-08 09:04:06 +00:00
From the PR: 1. Correct FTP site for 4.0-stable snapshots and delete sentence fragment immediately following. [ not applicable to HEAD ] 2. Add FDDI section to table of contents (see #5 below) and add one line of whitespace. 3. In userland section, document csh->tcsh, more->less, and colorized ls. 4. In Ethernet section, do: s/gigabit ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/ s/fast ethernet/Fast Ethernet/ s/ethernet/Ethernet/ 5. Pull DEC DEFPA/DEFEA *FDDI* cards out of the *Ethernet* section and into their own second-level section. 6. Add missing period in section header in ATM section. 7. Tweak upgrading sectio with some new text, not sure if this is much better though. 8. Add a blurb about the -stable mailing list. [ changed to -current list in HEAD ] PR: 20015 Submitted by: Bruce A. Mah <bmah@cisco.com>
2000-07-19 00:05:59 +00:00
The csh(1) shell has been replaced by tcsh(1), although it can still
be run as csh(1). [MERGED]
The more(1) command has been replaced by less(1), although it can still
be run as more(1). [MERGED]
ls(1) can produce colorized listings with the -G flag (and appropriate
terminal support). [MERGED]
The rest of the changes needed to support the new version of sendmail (8.11.0). Beyond changes to the build system, this includes fixing up the sample freebsd.mc configuration for changes in defaults and syntax, removing outdated documentation, and updating the release notes.
2000-08-12 22:39:25 +00:00
sendmail upgraded from version 8.9.3 to version 8.11.0. Important changes
include: new default file locations (see
/usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README); newaliases is limited to root and
trusted users; and the MSA port (587) is turned on by default. See
sendmail 8.11.0 has been merged into RELENG_4
2000-08-27 17:33:46 +00:00
/usr/src/contrib/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES for more information. [MERGED]
The rest of the changes needed to support the new version of sendmail (8.11.0). Beyond changes to the build system, this includes fixing up the sample freebsd.mc configuration for changes in defaults and syntax, removing outdated documentation, and updating the release notes.
2000-08-12 22:39:25 +00:00
Mention the gawk-3.0.6 upgrade.
2000-08-15 18:05:05 +00:00
awk has been upgraded from gawk-3.0.4 to gawk-3.0.6. This fixes a number
of non-critical bugs and includes a few performance tweaks.
Reflect the MFC of: Posix.1b shared memory objects, OpenSSL 0.9.5a, routed 2.22.
2000-09-01 16:39:02 +00:00
routed(8) has been updated to version 2.22. [MERGED]
Make the following additional entries to RELNOTES.TXT files: alpha: tap driver, accept_filters, ata support for ATA100, routed update to 2.22, truncate(1), syslogd(8) -n option, kenv(1), periodic(8) controlled by periodic.conf, logger(1) support for remote syslogs. i386: tap driver, accept_filters, ata support for ATA100, routed update to 2.22, truncate(1), syslogd(8) -n option, kenv(1), periodic(8) controlled by periodic.conf, boot98cfg(8), logger(1) support for remote syslogs. PR: 20628 Submitted by: bmah@cisco.com (Bruce A. Mah) Reviewed by: nik
2000-08-23 16:40:34 +00:00
The truncate(1) utility, which truncates or extends the length
of files, has been added. [MERGED]
syslogd(8) can take a -n option to disable DNS queries for every
request. [MERGED]
kenv(1), a command to dump the kernel environment, has been added.
[MERGED]
The behavior of periodic(8) is now controlled by /etc/defaults/periodic.conf
and /etc/periodic.conf. [MERGED]
logger(1) can now send messages directly to a remote syslog. [MERGED]
Note in release notes that: which(1) and killall(1) are now C programs, finger(1) now supports finger aliases.
2000-09-01 18:40:32 +00:00
which(1) and killall(1) are now C programs, rather than Perl scripts.
finger(1) now has the ability to support fingering aliases, via the
finger.conf(5) file. [MERGED]
Mention the gawk-3.0.6 upgrade.
2000-08-15 18:05:05 +00:00
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
2. Supported Configurations
---------------------------
Add info on OSF/1 emulation, IDE support on Alpha. Removed some references to EISA cards as there is no EISA bus support on Alpha.
2000-02-13 12:05:14 +00:00
For an extensive overview of supported Alpha machines/mainboards please refer
to the HARDWARE.TXT file.
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
2.1. Disk Controllers
---------------------
IDE
ATA
Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec AIC7850, AIC7860, AIC7880, AIC789x, on-board SCSI controllers.
Correct outdated aic entries. Submitted by: Greg Lewis <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au> PR: 15186
1999-12-02 08:25:53 +00:00
Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices)
Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x
and SoundBlaster SCSI cards.
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
AdvanSys SCSI controllers (all models).
BusLogic MultiMaster controllers:
[ Please note that BusLogic/Mylex "Flashpoint" adapters are NOT yet supported ]
BusLogic MultiMaster "W" Series Host Adapters:
BT-948, BT-958, BT-958D
BusLogic MultiMaster "C" Series Host Adapters:
BT-946C, BT-956C, BT-956CD, BT-445C, BT-747C, BT-757C, BT-757CD, BT-545C,
BT-540CF
BusLogic MultiMaster "S" Series Host Adapters:
BT-445S, BT-747S, BT-747D, BT-757S, BT-757D, BT-545S, BT-542D, BT-742A,
BT-542B
BusLogic MultiMaster "A" Series Host Adapters:
BT-742A, BT-542B
AMI FastDisk controllers that are true BusLogic MultiMaster clones are also
supported.
DPT SmartCACHE Plus, SmartCACHE III, SmartRAID III, SmartCACHE IV and
SmartRAID IV SCSI/RAID controllers are supported. The DPT SmartRAID/CACHE V
is not yet supported.
Update hardware and release-note blurb about AMI and Mylex RAID controllers. Add extra verbiage to try to clarify some of the more frequently asked questions.
2000-06-10 19:41:34 +00:00
AMI MegaRAID Express and Enterprise family RAID controllers:
MegaRAID 418
MegaRAID Enterprise 1200 (428)
MegaRAID Enterprise 1300
MegaRAID Enterprise 1400
MegaRAID Enterprise 1500
MegaRAID Elite 1500
MegaRAID Express 200
MegaRAID Express 300
Dell PERC
Dell PERC 2/SC
Dell PERC 2/DC
Some HP NetRAID controllers are OEM versions of AMI designs, and
these are also supported. Booting from these controllers is
supported, but not possible due to SRM limitations.
Mylex DAC960 and DAC1100 RAID controllers with 2.x, 3.x, 4.x and 5.x
firmware:
DAC960P
DAC960PD
DAC960PDU
DAC960PL
DAC960PJ
DAC960PG
AcceleRAID 150
AcceleRAID 250
eXtremeRAID 1100
This list includes controllers sold by Digital/Compaq in Alpha systems
in the StorageWorks family, eg. KZPSC, KZPAC. Booting from these
controllers is supported when recognised by SRM (typically Digital/
Compaq models only, and only in systems where they are supported).
EISA adapters are not supported.
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C810a, 53C815, 53C820, 53C825a,
53C860, 53C875, 53C875j, 53C885, 53C895 and 53C896 PCI SCSI controllers:
ASUS SC-200
Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants)
Diamond FirePort (all)
NCR cards (all)
Symbios cards (all)
Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F
Tyan S1365
QLogic 1020, 1040, 1040B, 1080 and 1240 SCSI Host Adapters.
QLogic 2100 Fibre Channel Adapters (private loop only).
With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for
SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including hard disks, optical disks,
tape drives (including DAT and 8mm Exabyte), medium changers, processor
target devices and CDROM drives. WORM devices that support CDROM commands
are supported for read-only access by the CDROM driver. WORM/CD-R/CD-RW
writing support is provided by cdrecord, which is in the ports tree.
The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:
(cd) SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and
SoundBlaster SCSI)
(matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary
interface (562/563 models)
(scd) Sony proprietary interface (all models)
(acd) ATAPI IDE interface
The following drivers were supported under the old SCSI subsystem, but are
NOT YET supported under the new CAM SCSI subsystem:
NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller.
UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers.
Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers.
Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers.
WD7000 SCSI controller.
Correct outdated aic entries. Submitted by: Greg Lewis <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au> PR: 15186
1999-12-02 08:25:53 +00:00
[ Note: There is work-in-progress to port the UltraStor driver to
the new CAM SCSI framework, but no estimates on when or if it will
be completed. ]
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
Unmaintained drivers, they might or might not work for your hardware:
(mcd) Mitsumi proprietary CD-ROM interface (all models)
2.2. Ethernet cards
-------------------
From the PR: 1. Correct FTP site for 4.0-stable snapshots and delete sentence fragment immediately following. [ not applicable to HEAD ] 2. Add FDDI section to table of contents (see #5 below) and add one line of whitespace. 3. In userland section, document csh->tcsh, more->less, and colorized ls. 4. In Ethernet section, do: s/gigabit ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/ s/fast ethernet/Fast Ethernet/ s/ethernet/Ethernet/ 5. Pull DEC DEFPA/DEFEA *FDDI* cards out of the *Ethernet* section and into their own second-level section. 6. Add missing period in section header in ATM section. 7. Tweak upgrading sectio with some new text, not sure if this is much better though. 8. Add a blurb about the -stable mailing list. [ changed to -current list in HEAD ] PR: 20015 Submitted by: Bruce A. Mah <bmah@cisco.com>
2000-07-19 00:05:59 +00:00
Adaptec Duralink PCI Fast Ethernet adapters based on the Adaptec
AIC-6915 Fast Ethernet controller chip, including the following:
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
ANA-62011 64-bit single port 10/100baseTX adapter
ANA-62022 64-bit dual port 10/100baseTX adapter
ANA-62044 64-bit quad port 10/100baseTX adapter
ANA-69011 32-bit single port 10/100baseTX adapter
ANA-62020 64-bit single port 100baseFX adapter
Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards
From the PR: 1. Correct FTP site for 4.0-stable snapshots and delete sentence fragment immediately following. [ not applicable to HEAD ] 2. Add FDDI section to table of contents (see #5 below) and add one line of whitespace. 3. In userland section, document csh->tcsh, more->less, and colorized ls. 4. In Ethernet section, do: s/gigabit ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/ s/fast ethernet/Fast Ethernet/ s/ethernet/Ethernet/ 5. Pull DEC DEFPA/DEFEA *FDDI* cards out of the *Ethernet* section and into their own second-level section. 6. Add missing period in section header in ATM section. 7. Tweak upgrading sectio with some new text, not sure if this is much better though. 8. Add a blurb about the -stable mailing list. [ changed to -current list in HEAD ] PR: 20015 Submitted by: Bruce A. Mah <bmah@cisco.com>
2000-07-19 00:05:59 +00:00
Alteon Networks PCI Gigabit Ethernet NICs based on the Tigon 1 and Tigon 2
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
chipsets, including the following:
Alteon AceNIC (Tigon 1 and 2)
3Com 3c985-SX (Tigon 1 and 2)
Netgear GA620 (Tigon 2)
Silicon Graphics Gigabit Ethernet
DEC/Compaq EtherWORKS 1000
NEC Gigabit Ethernet
AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974)
From the PR: 1. Correct FTP site for 4.0-stable snapshots and delete sentence fragment immediately following. [ not applicable to HEAD ] 2. Add FDDI section to table of contents (see #5 below) and add one line of whitespace. 3. In userland section, document csh->tcsh, more->less, and colorized ls. 4. In Ethernet section, do: s/gigabit ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/ s/fast ethernet/Fast Ethernet/ s/ethernet/Ethernet/ 5. Pull DEC DEFPA/DEFEA *FDDI* cards out of the *Ethernet* section and into their own second-level section. 6. Add missing period in section header in ATM section. 7. Tweak upgrading sectio with some new text, not sure if this is much better though. 8. Add a blurb about the -stable mailing list. [ changed to -current list in HEAD ] PR: 20015 Submitted by: Bruce A. Mah <bmah@cisco.com>
2000-07-19 00:05:59 +00:00
SMC Elite 16 WD8013 Ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E,
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT
based clones. SMC Elite Ultra. SMC Etherpower II.
From the PR: 1. Correct FTP site for 4.0-stable snapshots and delete sentence fragment immediately following. [ not applicable to HEAD ] 2. Add FDDI section to table of contents (see #5 below) and add one line of whitespace. 3. In userland section, document csh->tcsh, more->less, and colorized ls. 4. In Ethernet section, do: s/gigabit ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/ s/fast ethernet/Fast Ethernet/ s/ethernet/Ethernet/ 5. Pull DEC DEFPA/DEFEA *FDDI* cards out of the *Ethernet* section and into their own second-level section. 6. Add missing period in section header in ATM section. 7. Tweak upgrading sectio with some new text, not sure if this is much better though. 8. Add a blurb about the -stable mailing list. [ changed to -current list in HEAD ] PR: 20015 Submitted by: Bruce A. Mah <bmah@cisco.com>
2000-07-19 00:05:59 +00:00
RealTek 8129/8139 Fast Ethernet NICs including the following:
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
Allied Telesyn AT2550
Allied Telesyn AT2500TX
Genius GF100TXR (RTL8139)
NDC Communications NE100TX-E
OvisLink LEF-8129TX
OvisLink LEF-8139TX
Netronix Inc. EA-1210 NetEther 10/100
KTX-9130TX 10/100 Fast Ethernet
Accton "Cheetah" EN1027D (MPX 5030/5038; RealTek 8139 clone?)
SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI 1211-TX
From the PR: 1. Correct FTP site for 4.0-stable snapshots and delete sentence fragment immediately following. [ not applicable to HEAD ] 2. Add FDDI section to table of contents (see #5 below) and add one line of whitespace. 3. In userland section, document csh->tcsh, more->less, and colorized ls. 4. In Ethernet section, do: s/gigabit ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/ s/fast ethernet/Fast Ethernet/ s/ethernet/Ethernet/ 5. Pull DEC DEFPA/DEFEA *FDDI* cards out of the *Ethernet* section and into their own second-level section. 6. Add missing period in section header in ATM section. 7. Tweak upgrading sectio with some new text, not sure if this is much better though. 8. Add a blurb about the -stable mailing list. [ changed to -current list in HEAD ] PR: 20015 Submitted by: Bruce A. Mah <bmah@cisco.com>
2000-07-19 00:05:59 +00:00
Lite-On 82c168/82c169 PNIC Fast Ethernet NICs including the following:
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
LinkSys EtherFast LNE100TX
NetGear FA310-TX Rev. D1
Matrox FastNIC 10/100
Kingston KNE110TX
From the PR: 1. Correct FTP site for 4.0-stable snapshots and delete sentence fragment immediately following. [ not applicable to HEAD ] 2. Add FDDI section to table of contents (see #5 below) and add one line of whitespace. 3. In userland section, document csh->tcsh, more->less, and colorized ls. 4. In Ethernet section, do: s/gigabit ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/ s/fast ethernet/Fast Ethernet/ s/ethernet/Ethernet/ 5. Pull DEC DEFPA/DEFEA *FDDI* cards out of the *Ethernet* section and into their own second-level section. 6. Add missing period in section header in ATM section. 7. Tweak upgrading sectio with some new text, not sure if this is much better though. 8. Add a blurb about the -stable mailing list. [ changed to -current list in HEAD ] PR: 20015 Submitted by: Bruce A. Mah <bmah@cisco.com>
2000-07-19 00:05:59 +00:00
Macronix 98713, 98713A, 98715, 98715A and 98725 Fast Ethernet NICs
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
NDC Communications SFA100A (98713A)
CNet Pro120A (98713 or 98713A)
CNet Pro120B (98715)
SVEC PN102TX (98713)
From the PR: 1. Correct FTP site for 4.0-stable snapshots and delete sentence fragment immediately following. [ not applicable to HEAD ] 2. Add FDDI section to table of contents (see #5 below) and add one line of whitespace. 3. In userland section, document csh->tcsh, more->less, and colorized ls. 4. In Ethernet section, do: s/gigabit ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/ s/fast ethernet/Fast Ethernet/ s/ethernet/Ethernet/ 5. Pull DEC DEFPA/DEFEA *FDDI* cards out of the *Ethernet* section and into their own second-level section. 6. Add missing period in section header in ATM section. 7. Tweak upgrading sectio with some new text, not sure if this is much better though. 8. Add a blurb about the -stable mailing list. [ changed to -current list in HEAD ] PR: 20015 Submitted by: Bruce A. Mah <bmah@cisco.com>
2000-07-19 00:05:59 +00:00
Macronix/Lite-On PNIC II LC82C115 Fast Ethernet NICs including the following:
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
LinkSys EtherFast LNE100TX Version 2
From the PR: 1. Correct FTP site for 4.0-stable snapshots and delete sentence fragment immediately following. [ not applicable to HEAD ] 2. Add FDDI section to table of contents (see #5 below) and add one line of whitespace. 3. In userland section, document csh->tcsh, more->less, and colorized ls. 4. In Ethernet section, do: s/gigabit ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/ s/fast ethernet/Fast Ethernet/ s/ethernet/Ethernet/ 5. Pull DEC DEFPA/DEFEA *FDDI* cards out of the *Ethernet* section and into their own second-level section. 6. Add missing period in section header in ATM section. 7. Tweak upgrading sectio with some new text, not sure if this is much better though. 8. Add a blurb about the -stable mailing list. [ changed to -current list in HEAD ] PR: 20015 Submitted by: Bruce A. Mah <bmah@cisco.com>
2000-07-19 00:05:59 +00:00
Winbond W89C840F Fast Ethernet NICs including the following:
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
Trendware TE100-PCIE
From the PR: 1. Correct FTP site for 4.0-stable snapshots and delete sentence fragment immediately following. [ not applicable to HEAD ] 2. Add FDDI section to table of contents (see #5 below) and add one line of whitespace. 3. In userland section, document csh->tcsh, more->less, and colorized ls. 4. In Ethernet section, do: s/gigabit ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/ s/fast ethernet/Fast Ethernet/ s/ethernet/Ethernet/ 5. Pull DEC DEFPA/DEFEA *FDDI* cards out of the *Ethernet* section and into their own second-level section. 6. Add missing period in section header in ATM section. 7. Tweak upgrading sectio with some new text, not sure if this is much better though. 8. Add a blurb about the -stable mailing list. [ changed to -current list in HEAD ] PR: 20015 Submitted by: Bruce A. Mah <bmah@cisco.com>
2000-07-19 00:05:59 +00:00
VIA Technologies VT3043 "Rhine I" and VT86C100A "Rhine II" Fast Ethernet
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
NICs including the following:
Hawking Technologies PN102TX
D-Link DFE-530TX
Mention in the documentation that the AOpen/Acer ALN-320 is a supported ethernet card (PCI, VIA Rhine II chipset).
1999-09-22 19:46:14 +00:00
AOpen/Acer ALN-320
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
From the PR: 1. Correct FTP site for 4.0-stable snapshots and delete sentence fragment immediately following. [ not applicable to HEAD ] 2. Add FDDI section to table of contents (see #5 below) and add one line of whitespace. 3. In userland section, document csh->tcsh, more->less, and colorized ls. 4. In Ethernet section, do: s/gigabit ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/ s/fast ethernet/Fast Ethernet/ s/ethernet/Ethernet/ 5. Pull DEC DEFPA/DEFEA *FDDI* cards out of the *Ethernet* section and into their own second-level section. 6. Add missing period in section header in ATM section. 7. Tweak upgrading sectio with some new text, not sure if this is much better though. 8. Add a blurb about the -stable mailing list. [ changed to -current list in HEAD ] PR: 20015 Submitted by: Bruce A. Mah <bmah@cisco.com>
2000-07-19 00:05:59 +00:00
Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900 and SiS 7016 PCI Fast Ethernet NICs
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
From the PR: 1. Correct FTP site for 4.0-stable snapshots and delete sentence fragment immediately following. [ not applicable to HEAD ] 2. Add FDDI section to table of contents (see #5 below) and add one line of whitespace. 3. In userland section, document csh->tcsh, more->less, and colorized ls. 4. In Ethernet section, do: s/gigabit ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/ s/fast ethernet/Fast Ethernet/ s/ethernet/Ethernet/ 5. Pull DEC DEFPA/DEFEA *FDDI* cards out of the *Ethernet* section and into their own second-level section. 6. Add missing period in section header in ATM section. 7. Tweak upgrading sectio with some new text, not sure if this is much better though. 8. Add a blurb about the -stable mailing list. [ changed to -current list in HEAD ] PR: 20015 Submitted by: Bruce A. Mah <bmah@cisco.com>
2000-07-19 00:05:59 +00:00
National Semiconductor DP83815 Fast Ethernet NICs including the following:
Add support for the National Semiconductor DP83815 fast ethernet controller chip. This chip is currently being used on the NetGear FA312-TX adapter, which I guess is a replacement for the FA310-TX (PNIC-based). I added support for this chip by modifying the sis driver since the SiS 900 and the NS DP83815 have almost the same programming interface (the RX filter programming and PHY access methods are different, but the general configuration, DMA scheme and register layout are identical). I would have had this done a lot sooner, but getting the damn MAC address out of the EEPROM proved to be more complicated than expected.
2000-07-06 06:02:04 +00:00
NetGear FA312-TX
From the PR: 1. Correct FTP site for 4.0-stable snapshots and delete sentence fragment immediately following. [ not applicable to HEAD ] 2. Add FDDI section to table of contents (see #5 below) and add one line of whitespace. 3. In userland section, document csh->tcsh, more->less, and colorized ls. 4. In Ethernet section, do: s/gigabit ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/ s/fast ethernet/Fast Ethernet/ s/ethernet/Ethernet/ 5. Pull DEC DEFPA/DEFEA *FDDI* cards out of the *Ethernet* section and into their own second-level section. 6. Add missing period in section header in ATM section. 7. Tweak upgrading sectio with some new text, not sure if this is much better though. 8. Add a blurb about the -stable mailing list. [ changed to -current list in HEAD ] PR: 20015 Submitted by: Bruce A. Mah <bmah@cisco.com>
2000-07-19 00:05:59 +00:00
Sundance Technologies ST201 PCI Fast Ethernet NICs including
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
the following:
D-Link DFE-550TX
From the PR: 1. Correct FTP site for 4.0-stable snapshots and delete sentence fragment immediately following. [ not applicable to HEAD ] 2. Add FDDI section to table of contents (see #5 below) and add one line of whitespace. 3. In userland section, document csh->tcsh, more->less, and colorized ls. 4. In Ethernet section, do: s/gigabit ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/ s/fast ethernet/Fast Ethernet/ s/ethernet/Ethernet/ 5. Pull DEC DEFPA/DEFEA *FDDI* cards out of the *Ethernet* section and into their own second-level section. 6. Add missing period in section header in ATM section. 7. Tweak upgrading sectio with some new text, not sure if this is much better though. 8. Add a blurb about the -stable mailing list. [ changed to -current list in HEAD ] PR: 20015 Submitted by: Bruce A. Mah <bmah@cisco.com>
2000-07-19 00:05:59 +00:00
SysKonnect SK-984x PCI Gigabit Ethernet cards including the following:
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
SK-9841 1000baseLX single mode fiber, single port
SK-9842 1000baseSX multimode fiber, single port
SK-9843 1000baseLX single mode fiber, dual port
SK-9844 1000baseSX multimode fiber, dual port
Texas Instruments ThunderLAN PCI NICs, including the following:
Compaq Netelligent 10, 10/100, 10/100 Proliant, 10/100 Dual-Port
Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX Embedded UTP, 10 T PCI UTP/Coax, 10/100 TX UTP
Compaq NetFlex 3P, 3P Integrated, 3P w/ BNC
Olicom OC-2135/2138, OC-2325, OC-2326 10/100 TX UTP
Racore 8165 10/100baseTX
Racore 8148 10baseT/100baseTX/100baseFX multi-personality
From the PR: 1. Correct FTP site for 4.0-stable snapshots and delete sentence fragment immediately following. [ not applicable to HEAD ] 2. Add FDDI section to table of contents (see #5 below) and add one line of whitespace. 3. In userland section, document csh->tcsh, more->less, and colorized ls. 4. In Ethernet section, do: s/gigabit ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/ s/fast ethernet/Fast Ethernet/ s/ethernet/Ethernet/ 5. Pull DEC DEFPA/DEFEA *FDDI* cards out of the *Ethernet* section and into their own second-level section. 6. Add missing period in section header in ATM section. 7. Tweak upgrading sectio with some new text, not sure if this is much better though. 8. Add a blurb about the -stable mailing list. [ changed to -current list in HEAD ] PR: 20015 Submitted by: Bruce A. Mah <bmah@cisco.com>
2000-07-19 00:05:59 +00:00
ADMtek Inc. AL981-based PCI Fast Ethernet NICs
ADMtek Inc. AN985-based PCI Fast Ethernet NICs
ADMtek Inc. AN986-based USB Ethernet NICs including the following:
This commit adds device driver support for the ADMtek AN986 Pegasus USB ethernet chip. Adapters that use this chip include the LinkSys USB100TX. There are a few others, but I'm not certain of their availability in the U.S. I used an ADMtek eval board for development. Note that while the ADMtek chip is a 100Mbps device, you can't really get 100Mbps speeds over USB. Regardless, this driver uses miibus to allow speed and duplex mode selection as well as autonegotiation. Building and kldloading the driver as a module is also supported. Note that in order to make this driver work, I had to make what some may consider an ugly hack to sys/dev/usb/usbdi.c. The usbd_transfer() function will use tsleep() for synchronous transfers that don't complete right away. This is a problem since there are times when we need to do sync transfers from an interrupt context (i.e. when reading registers from the MAC via the control endpoint), where tsleep() us a no-no. My hack allows the driver to have the code poll for transfer completion subject to the xfer->timeout timeout rather that calling tsleep(). This hack is controlled by a quirk entry and is only enabled for the ADMtek device. Now, I'm sure there are a few of you out there ready to jump on me and suggest some other approach that doesn't involve a busy wait. The only solution that might work is to handle the interrupts in a kernel thread, where you may have something resembling a process context that makes it okay to tsleep(). This is lovely, except we don't have any mechanism like that now, and I'm not about to implement such a thing myself since it's beyond the scope of driver development. (Translation: I'll be damned if I know how to do it.) If FreeBSD ever aquires such a mechanism, I'll be glad to revisit the driver to take advantage of it. In the meantime, I settled for what I perceived to be the solution that involved the least amount of code changes. In general, the hit is pretty light. Also note that my only USB test box has a UHCI controller: I haven't I don't have a machine with an OHCI controller available. Highlights: - Updated usb_quirks.* to add UQ_NO_TSLEEP quirk for ADMtek part. - Updated usbdevs and regenerated generated files - Updated HARDWARE.TXT and RELNOTES.TXT files - Updated sysinstall/device.c and userconfig.c - Updated kernel configs -- device aue0 is commented out by default - Updated /sys/conf/files - Added new kld module directory
1999-12-28 02:01:18 +00:00
LinkSys USB100TX
Billionton USB100
Melco Inc. LU-ATX
Add the vendor and device IDs for a whole bunch of additional USB ethernet adapters that are supported by the aue and kue drivers. There are actually a couple more out there from Accton, Asante and EXP Computer, however I was not able to find any Windows device drivers for these on their servers, and hence could not harvest their vendor/device ID info. If somebody has one of these things and can look in the .inf file that comes with the Windows driver, I'd appreciate knowing what it says for 'VID' and 'PID.' Additional adapters include: the D-Link DSB-650 and DSB-650TX, the SMC 2102USB, 2104USB and 2202USB, the ATen UC10T, and the Netgear EA101. These are all mentioned in the man pages, relnotes and LINT. Also correct the date in the kue(4) man page. I wrote this thing on Jan, 4 2000, not 1999.
2000-01-07 22:18:49 +00:00
D-Link DSB-650TX
SMC 2202USB
From the PR: 1. Correct FTP site for 4.0-stable snapshots and delete sentence fragment immediately following. [ not applicable to HEAD ] 2. Add FDDI section to table of contents (see #5 below) and add one line of whitespace. 3. In userland section, document csh->tcsh, more->less, and colorized ls. 4. In Ethernet section, do: s/gigabit ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/ s/fast ethernet/Fast Ethernet/ s/ethernet/Ethernet/ 5. Pull DEC DEFPA/DEFEA *FDDI* cards out of the *Ethernet* section and into their own second-level section. 6. Add missing period in section header in ATM section. 7. Tweak upgrading sectio with some new text, not sure if this is much better though. 8. Add a blurb about the -stable mailing list. [ changed to -current list in HEAD ] PR: 20015 Submitted by: Bruce A. Mah <bmah@cisco.com>
2000-07-19 00:05:59 +00:00
CATC USB-EL1210A-based USB Ethernet NICs including the following:
Add device driver support for USB ethernet adapters based on the CATC USB-EL1202A chipset. Between this and the other two drivers, we should have support for pretty much every USB ethernet adapter on the market. The only other USB chip that I know of is the SMC USB97C196, and right now I don't know of any adapters that use it (including the ones made by SMC :/ ). Note that the CATC chip supports a nifty feature: read and write combining. This allows multiple ethernet packets to be transfered in a single USB bulk in/out transaction. However I'm again having trouble with large bulk in transfers like I did with the ADMtek chip, which leads me to believe that our USB stack needs some work before we can really make use of this feature. When/if things improve, I intend to revisit the aue and cue drivers. For now, I've lost enough sanity points.
2000-01-14 03:14:49 +00:00
CATC Netmate
CATC Netmate II
Belkin F5U111
From the PR: 1. Correct FTP site for 4.0-stable snapshots and delete sentence fragment immediately following. [ not applicable to HEAD ] 2. Add FDDI section to table of contents (see #5 below) and add one line of whitespace. 3. In userland section, document csh->tcsh, more->less, and colorized ls. 4. In Ethernet section, do: s/gigabit ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/ s/fast ethernet/Fast Ethernet/ s/ethernet/Ethernet/ 5. Pull DEC DEFPA/DEFEA *FDDI* cards out of the *Ethernet* section and into their own second-level section. 6. Add missing period in section header in ATM section. 7. Tweak upgrading sectio with some new text, not sure if this is much better though. 8. Add a blurb about the -stable mailing list. [ changed to -current list in HEAD ] PR: 20015 Submitted by: Bruce A. Mah <bmah@cisco.com>
2000-07-19 00:05:59 +00:00
Kawasaki LSI KU5KUSB101B-based USB Ethernet NICs including
Add the vendor and device IDs for a whole bunch of additional USB ethernet adapters that are supported by the aue and kue drivers. There are actually a couple more out there from Accton, Asante and EXP Computer, however I was not able to find any Windows device drivers for these on their servers, and hence could not harvest their vendor/device ID info. If somebody has one of these things and can look in the .inf file that comes with the Windows driver, I'd appreciate knowing what it says for 'VID' and 'PID.' Additional adapters include: the D-Link DSB-650 and DSB-650TX, the SMC 2102USB, 2104USB and 2202USB, the ATen UC10T, and the Netgear EA101. These are all mentioned in the man pages, relnotes and LINT. Also correct the date in the kue(4) man page. I wrote this thing on Jan, 4 2000, not 1999.
2000-01-07 22:18:49 +00:00
the following:
LinkSys USB10T
Entrega NET-USB-E45
Peracom USB Ethernet Adapter
3Com 3c19250
ADS Technologies USB-10BT
ATen UC10T
Netgear EA101
D-Link DSB-650
SMC 2102USB
SMC 2104USB
Add device driver support for USB ethernet adapters based on the CATC USB-EL1202A chipset. Between this and the other two drivers, we should have support for pretty much every USB ethernet adapter on the market. The only other USB chip that I know of is the SMC USB97C196, and right now I don't know of any adapters that use it (including the ones made by SMC :/ ). Note that the CATC chip supports a nifty feature: read and write combining. This allows multiple ethernet packets to be transfered in a single USB bulk in/out transaction. However I'm again having trouble with large bulk in transfers like I did with the ADMtek chip, which leads me to believe that our USB stack needs some work before we can really make use of this feature. When/if things improve, I intend to revisit the aue and cue drivers. For now, I've lost enough sanity points.
2000-01-14 03:14:49 +00:00
Corega USB-T
VERY preliminary versions of these documents for the Alpha. I've made only the most superficial changes so far to HARDWARE.TXT and eliminated the stuff I absolutely knew didn't work. That still leaves a lot of work to do and this is mostly just a place-holder for now.
1999-09-06 15:10:54 +00:00
ASIX Electronics AX88140A PCI NICs, including the following:
Alfa Inc. GFC2204
CNet Pro110B
DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205)
DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422)
DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc)
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Davicom DM9100 and DM9102 PCI Fast Ethernet NICs, including the
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following:
Jaton Corporation XpressNet
Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A
HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A).
Intel EtherExpress 16
Intel EtherExpress Pro/10
Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet
Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit)
Isolink 4110 (8 bit)
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Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 Ethernet interface.
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PCI network cards emulating the NE2000: RealTek 8029, NetVin 5000,
Winbond W89C940, Surecom NE-34, VIA VT86C926.
3Com 3C501 cards
3Com 3C503 Etherlink II
3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+
3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP
3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905/905B/905C PCI
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(Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL
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3Com 3c980/3c980B Fast Etherlink XL server adapter
3Com 3cSOHO100-TX OfficeConnect adapter
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Toshiba Ethernet cards
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Crystal Semiconductor CS89x0-based NICs, including:
IBM Etherjet ISA
PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also
supported.
Note that NO token ring cards are supported at this time as we're
still waiting for someone to donate a driver for one of them. Any
takers?
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2.3. FDDI
---------
DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs
2.4. ATM
--------
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o ATM Host Interfaces
- FORE Systems, Inc. PCA-200E ATM PCI Adapters
- Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM PCI Adapters
o ATM Signalling Protocols
- The ATM Forum UNI 3.1 signalling protocol
- The ATM Forum UNI 3.0 signalling protocol
- The ATM Forum ILMI address registration
- FORE Systems's proprietary SPANS signalling protocol
- Permanent Virtual Channels (PVCs)
o IETF "Classical IP and ARP over ATM" model
- RFC 1483, "Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5"
- RFC 1577, "Classical IP and ARP over ATM"
- RFC 1626, "Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5"
- RFC 1755, "ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM"
- RFC 2225, "Classical IP and ARP over ATM"
- RFC 2334, "Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP)"
- Internet Draft draft-ietf-ion-scsp-atmarp-00.txt,
"A Distributed ATMARP Service Using SCSP"
o ATM Sockets interface
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2.5. Misc
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---------
AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ.
ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ.
ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial.
Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported)
Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported)
Comtrol Rocketport card.
Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board.
STB 4 port card using shared IRQ.
SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board.
SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards.
Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64,
ONboard 4/16 and Brumby.
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Specialix SI/XIO/SX ISA, PCI serial expansion cards/modules.
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Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound
and Roland MPU-401 sound cards. (snd driver)
Most ISA audio codecs manufactured by Crystal Semiconductors, OPTi, Creative
Labs, Avance, Yamaha and ENSONIQ. (pcm driver)
Connectix QuickCam
Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber
Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber
Cortex1 frame grabber
Hauppauge Wincast/TV boards (PCI)
STB TV PCI
Intel Smart Video Recorder III
Various Frame grabbers based on Brooktree Bt848 / Bt878 chip.
HP4020, HP6020, Philips CDD2000/CDD2660 and Plasmon CD-R drives.
PS/2 mice
Standard PC Joystick
X-10 power controllers
GPIB and Transputer drivers.
Genius and Mustek hand scanners.
Xilinx XC6200 based reconfigurable hardware cards compatible with
the HOT1 from Virtual Computers (www.vcc.com)
Support for Dave Mills experimental Loran-C receiver.
Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA and ISA standard speed
(2Mbps) and turbo speed (6Mbps) wireless network adapters and workalikes
(NCR WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11, Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS). Note: the
ISA versions of these adapters are actually PCMCIA cards combined with
an ISA to PCMCIA bridge card, so both kinds of devices work with
the same driver.
Add driver support for the Aironet 4500/4800 series wireless 802.11 NICs. (Finally!) The PCMCIA, ISA and PCI varieties are all supported, though only the ISA and PCI ones will work on the alpha for now. PCCARD, ISA and PCI attachments are all provided. Also provided an ancontrol(8) utility for configuring the NIC, man pages, and updated pccard.conf.sample. ISA cards are supported in both ISA PnP and hard-wired mode, although you must configure the kernel explicitly to support the hardwired mode since you have to know the I/O address and port ahead of time. Special thanks to Doug Ambrisko for doing the initial newbus hackery and getting it to work in infrastructure mode.
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Aironet 4500/4800 series 802.11 wireless adapters. The PCI and ISA
models are supported for the Alpha architecture.
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FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus.
3. Obtaining FreeBSD
--------------------
You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways:
3.1. FTP/Mail
-------------
You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from
`ftp.freebsd.org' - the official FreeBSD release site.
For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file
MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in
networking terms) to you. Additional mirror sites are always welcome!
Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to
become an official mirror site.
If you do not have access to the Internet and electronic mail is your
only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to
`ftpmail@ftpmail.vix.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message
to get more information on how to fetch files using this mechanism.
Please do note, however, that this will end up sending many *tens of
megabytes* through the mail and should only be employed as an absolute
LAST resort!
3.2. CDROM
----------
Update release notes for 4.0 reality PR: 17446 Submitted by: trev@sentry.org
2000-03-18 06:40:45 +00:00
FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE and 3.x-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from:
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Walnut Creek CDROM
4041 Pike Lane, Suite D
Concord CA 94520
1-800-786-9907, +1-925-674-0783, +1-925-674-0821 (FAX)
Or via the Internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com.
Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp from:
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog
Cost per -RELEASE CD is $39.95 or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription.
FreeBSD SNAPshot CDs, when available, are $39.95 or $14.95 with a
FreeBSD-SNAP subscription (-RELEASE and -SNAP subscriptions are entirely
separate). With a subscription, you will automatically receive updates as
they are released. Your credit card will be billed when each disk is
shipped and you may cancel your subscription at any time without further
obligation.
Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or Mexico
and $9.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American
Express or checks in U.S. Dollars and ship COD within the United
States. California residents please add 8.25% sales tax.
Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an
unconditional return policy.
4. Upgrading from previous releases of FreeBSD
----------------------------------------------
If you're upgrading from a previous release of FreeBSD, most likely
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it's 3.0 and there may be some issues affecting you, depending
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of course on your chosen method of upgrading. There are two popular
ways of upgrading FreeBSD distributions:
o Using sources, via /usr/src
o Using sysinstall's (binary) upgrade option.
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Please read the UPGRADE.TXT file for more information, preferably
before beginning an upgrade.
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5. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code.
-----------------------------------------------------------
Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always
valued - please do not hesitate to report any problems you may find
(preferably with a fix attached, if you can!).
The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine with
Internet mail connectivity is to use the send-pr command or use the CGI
script at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html. Bug reports
will be dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can
be sure that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon
as possible. Bugs filed in this way are also visible on our WEB site
in the support section and are therefore valuable both as bug reports
and as "signposts" for other users concerning potential problems to
watch out for.
If, for some reason, you are unable to use the send-pr command to
submit a bug report, you can try to send it to:
freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Note that send-pr itself is a shell script that should be easy to move
even onto a totally different system. We much prefer if you could use
this interface, since it make it easier to keep track of the problem
reports. However, before submitting, please try to make sure whether
the problem might have already been fixed since.
Otherwise, for any questions or tech support issues, please send mail to:
freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
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If you're tracking the -current development efforts, you should
definitely join the -current mailing list, in order to keep abreast
of recent developments and changes that may affect the way you
use and maintain the system:
freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
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Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have
extra hands willing to help - there are already far more desired
enhancements than we'll ever be able to manage by ourselves! To
contact us on technical matters, or with offers of help, please send
mail to:
freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Please note that these mailing lists can experience *significant*
amounts of traffic and if you have slow or expensive mail access and
are only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you
may find it preferable to subscribe instead to:
freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
All of the mailing lists can be freely joined by anyone wishing
to do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@FreeBSD.org and include the keyword
`help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message. This
will give you more information on joining the various lists, accessing
archives, etc. There are a number of mailing lists targeted at
special interest groups not mentioned here, so send mail to majordomo
and ask about them!
6. Acknowledgements
-------------------
FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not
hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very
hard to bring you this release. For a complete list of FreeBSD
project staffers, please see:
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/staff.html
or, if you've loaded the doc distribution:
file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/staff.html
Special mention to:
The donors listed at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/donors.html
Justin M. Seger <jseger@freebsd.org> for almost single-handedly
converting the ports collection to ELF.
Doug Rabson <dfr@freebsd.org> and John Birrell <jb@freebsd.org>
for making FreeBSD/alpha happen and to the NetBSD project for
substantial indirect aid.
Peter Wemm <peter@freebsd.org> for the new kernel module system
(with substantial aid from Doug Rabson).
And to the many thousands of FreeBSD users and testers all over the
world, without whom this release simply would not have been possible.
We sincerely hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD!
The FreeBSD Project
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