NetBSD/distrib/notes/i386/hardware

.\"	$NetBSD: hardware,v 1.127 2010/11/13 10:11:43 jnemeth Exp $
.
.Nx
\*V
runs on all i486 or later PC-compatible systems with 1 to 32 processors.
The minimal configuration for a full, standard installation is 32MB of RAM
and 250MB of disk space.
.Pp
NetBSD requires a numeric co-processor.
The target system must
have one of the following processors:
.(bullet
an i486DX or compatible
.It
an i486SX with an i487 numeric co-processor installed
.It
a Pentium compatible or later processor
.bullet)
On systems with under 32MB of memory, a custom
installation of NetBSD can be performed manually.
That procedure is not documented here.
.
.Ss2 Supported devices
Explanation of bracketed footnote tags [] follows this listing.
.(bullet -offset indent
.Te 2 "Floppy controllers."
.It
.Te 2 "MFM, ESDI, IDE, and RLL hard disk controllers"
.br
There is complete support (including IDE DMA or Ultra-DMA) for the following
PCI controllers
.(bullet -compact
Acard ATA-850 and 860 based IDE Controllers
.It
Acer labs M5229 IDE Controller
.It
Advanced Micro Devices AMD-756, 766, and 768 IDE Controllers
.It
CMD Tech PCI0643, 0646, 0648, and 0649 IDE Controllers
.It
Contaq Microsystems/Cypress CY82C693 IDE Controller
.It
HighPoint HPT366, HPT370, HPT372, and HPT374.
.It
IBM ESDI Fixed Disk Controllers [m]
.It
Intel PIIX, PIIX3, and PIIX4 IDE Controllers
.It
Intel 82801 (ICH/ICH0/ICH2/ICH4/ICH5/ICH6/ICH7/ICH8/ICH9) IDE/SATA Controllers
.It
Promise PDC20246 (Ultra/33), PDC20262 (Ultra/66), PDC20265/PDC20267 (Ultra/100),
PDC20268 (Ultra/100TX2 and Ultra/100TX2v2), Ultra/133, Ultra/133TX2,
and Ultra/133TX2v2.
.It
Promise SATA150 serial-ATA controllers: PDC20318, PDC20319, PDC20371,
PDC20375, PDC20376, PDC20377, PDC20378 and PDC20379.
.It
Silicon Integrated System 5597/5598 IDE controller
.It
VIA Technologies VT82C586, VT82C586A, VT82C596A, VT82C686A, and VT8233A IDE
Controllers
.It
Silicon Image SATALink controllers
.It
Silicon Image SteelVine SATA controllers [*] [+]
.bullet)
.Pp
Most of these controllers are only available in multifunction PCI chips.
Other PCI IDE controllers are supported, but performance may not be optimal.
ISA, ISA Plug and Play and PCMCIA IDE controllers are supported as well.
.It
.Te 2 "SCSI host adapters"
.(bullet -compact
Adaptec AHA-154xA, -B, -C, and -CF
.It
Adaptec AHA-1640 cards (MCA variant of AHA-1540) [m]
.It
Adaptec AHA-174x
.It
Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, including the Adaptec AHA-152x,
Adaptec APA-1460 (PCMCIA) and APA-1480 (CardBus), and the SoundBlaster
SCSI host adapter.
.(Note
You cannot boot from these boards if they do not have a boot ROM;
consequently only the AHA-152x and motherboards using this chip are
likely to be bootable.
.Note)
.Pp
.It
Adaptec AHA-2910, 2915, 2920, and 2930C adapters.
.It
Adaptec AHA-2x4x[U][2][W] cards and onboard PCI designs using the AIC-7770,
AIC-7850, AIC-7860, AIC-7870, AIC-7880 and AIC-789x chipsets.
.It
Adaptec AHA-394x[U][W] cards [b]
.It
Adaptec AHA-3950U2 cards
.It
Adaptec AHA-3960, 19160, and 29160 Ultra-160 adapters
.It
AdvanSys ABP-9x0[U][A] cards
.It
AdvanSys ABP-940UW[68], ABP-970UW[68], and ASB3940UW-00 cards
.It
AMD PCscsi-PCI (Am53c974) based SCSI adapters, including Tekram DC-390
.It
BusLogic 54x (Adaptec AHA-154x clones)
.It
BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx (but not the new
.Sq FlashPoint
series of BusLogic SCSI adapters)
.It
Qlogic ISP [12]0x0 SCSI/FibreChannel boards
.It
Seagate/Future Domain ISA SCSI adapter cards
.(bullet -compact
ST01/02
.It
Future Domain TMC-885
.It
Future Domain TMC-950
.bullet)
.It
Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx-based PCI SCSI host adapters
.(bullet -compact
Acculogic PCIpport
.It
ASUS SC-200 (requires NCR BIOS on motherboard to boot from disks)
.It
ASUS SC-875
.It
ASUS SP3[G] motherboard onboard SCSI
.It
.Tn DEC
Celebris XL/590 onboard SCSI
.It
Diamond FirePort 40
.It
Lomas Data SCSI adapters
.It
NCR/SYM 8125 (and its many clones; be careful, some of these cards have a
jumper to set the PCI interrupt; leave it on INT A!)
.It
Promise DC540 (a particularly common OEM model of the SYM 8125)
.It
Tekram DC-390U/F
.It
Tyan Yorktown
.bullet)
.It
Symbios Logic (NCR) 5380/53C400-based ISA SCSI host adapters [*]
.It
Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f
.It
Western Digital WD7000 SCSI and TMC-7000 host adapters (ISA cards only)
.bullet)
.It
.Te 2 "MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters"
.(Note
Not all of the display adapters
.Nx*M
can work with are supported by X.
See the NetBSD Guide chapter on X for more information:
.Lk http://www.NetBSD.org/docs/guide/en/chap-x.html
.Note)
.Pp
.It
.Te 2 "Serial ports"
.(bullet -compact
8250/16450-based ports
.It
16550/16650/16750-based ports
.It
AST-style 4-port serial cards [*]
.It
BOCA 8-port serial cards [*]
.It
BOCA 6-port (ioat) serial cards [*]
.It
.Tn IBM
PC-RT 4-port serial cards [*]
.It
TCOM TC-400 (4-port), TC-800 (8-port) serial cards [*]
.It
Single-port Hayes ESP serial cards [*]
.It
Cyclades Cyclom-Y serial cards [*] [+]
.It
Addonics FlexPort 8S 8-port serial cards [*]
.It
Byte Runner Technologies TC-400 and TC-800 serial cards [*]
.It
PCI universal communication cards
.bullet)
.It
.Te 2 "Parallel ports."
[*] [+]
.It
.Te 2 "Ethernet adapters"
.(bullet -compact
Agere/LSI ET1310/ET1301 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device
.bullet)
.(bullet -compact
AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA Ethernet adapters [*]
.(bullet -compact
Novell NE1500T
.It
Novell NE2100
.It
Kingston 21xx
.It
Digital EtherWORKS II ISA adapters (DE200/DE201/DE202)
.bullet)
.It
AMD LANCE and PCnet-based MCA Ethernet adapters [m]
.(bullet -compact
SKNET Personal
.It
SKNET MC+
.bullet)
.It
AMD PCnet-based PCI Ethernet adapters
.(bullet -compact
Addtron AE-350
.It
BOCALANcard/PCI
.It
SVEC FD0455
.It
X/Lan Add-On Adapter
.It
.Tn IBM
#13H9237 PCI Ethernet Adapter
.bullet)
.It
AT\*[Am]T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
.It
Attansic/Atheros L2 Fast-Ethernet card
.It
3COM 3c501
.It
3COM 3c503
.It
3COM 3c505 [*]
.It
3COM 3c507
.It
3COM 3c509, 3c579, 3c589, and 3c59X
.It
3COM 3c523 EtherLink/MC [m]
.It
3COM 3c529 EtherLink III [m]
.It
3COM 3c90X (including 3c905B), 3c450, 3c55X, 3c575, 3c980, 3cSOHO100
.It
.ne 4
Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters
.(bullet -compact
Accton EN2242
.It
ASUS PCI-DEC100TX+
.It
Cogent EM1X0, EM960 (a.k.a. Adaptec ANA-69XX)
.It
Cogent EM964 [b]
.It
Cogent EM4XX [b]
.It
Compex Readylink PCI
.It
DANPEX EN-9400P3
.It
Digital Celebris GL, GLST on-board ethernet
.It
.Tn DEC
.Pq Tn Digital
PCI Ethernet/Fast Ethernet adapters (all)
.It
DLINK DFE500-TX
.It
JCIS Condor JC1260
.It
JMicron Technologies JMC250/JMC260 controllers [*] [+]
.It
Linksys PCI Fast Ethernet
.It
SMC EtherPower 10, 10/100 (PCI only!)
.It
SMC EtherPower^2 [b]
.It
Sundance ST-201 based ethernet adapters (including DLINK DFE550-TX and
DFE580-TX)
.It
SVEC PN0455
.It
SVEC FD1000-TP
.It
Znyx ZX34X
.bullet)
.It
Digital EtherWORKS III ISA adapters (DE203/DE204/DE205) [*]
.It
Digital DEPCM-BA (PCMCIA) and DE305 (ISA) NE2000-compatible cards
.It
BICC Isolan [* and not recently tested]
.It
Efficient Networks EN-155 and Adaptec AIC-590x ATM interfaces
.It
Essential Communications Hippi (800 Mbit/s)
.It
Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A based cards
.(bullet -compact
Fujitsu FMV-180 series
.It
Allied-Telesis AT1700 series
.It
Allied-Telesis AT1700 series MCA [m]
.It
Allied-Telesis RE2000 series
.bullet)
.It
Intel EtherExpress 16
.It
Intel EtherExpress PRO/10
.It
Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters
.It
Intel Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet adapters
.It
Novell NE1000, NE2000 (ISA, PCI, PCMCIA, ISA PnP)
.It
Realtek 8129/8139 based boards
.It
Realtek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S based boards
.It
SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC
.Sq Elite16
ISA boards
.It
SMC/WD 8003, 8013 and IBM PS/2 Adapter/A MCA boards [m]
.It
SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC
.Sq "Elite16 Ultra"
ISA boards)
.It
SMC 91C9x-based boards (ISA and PCMCIA)
.It
SMC EPIC/100 Fast Ethernet boards
.(bullet -compact
SMC Etherpower-II
.bullet)
.It
Texas Instruments ThunderLAN based ethernet boards
.(bullet -compact
Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX
.It
Compaq ProLiant Integrated Netelligent 10/100 TX
.It
Compaq Netelligent 10 T (untested)
.It
Compaq Integrated NetFlex 3/P
.It
Compaq NetFlex 3/P in baseboard variant (the PCI
variant doesn't use the same chip!)
.It
Compaq Dual Port Netelligent 10/100 TX
.It
Compaq Deskpro 4000 5233MMX (untested)
.It
Texas Instruments TravelMate 5000 series laptop docking station Ethernet board
.bullet)
.It
VIA VT3043 (Rhine) and VT86C100A (Rhine-II) based ethernet boards
.(bullet -compact
D-Link DFE530TX
.bullet)
.bullet)
.It
.Te 2 "FDDI adapters"
.(bullet -compact
Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters [*] [+]
.It
Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adapters [*] [+]
.bullet)
.It
.Te 2 "Token-Ring adapters"
.(bullet -compact
.Tn IBM
Token-Ring Network PC Adapter [+]
.It
.Tn IBM
Token-Ring Network PC Adapter II [+]
.It
.Tn IBM
Token-Ring Network Adapter/A [+]
.It
.Tn IBM
Token-Ring Network 16/4 Adapter [+]
.It
.Tn IBM
Token-Ring Network 16/4 Adapter/A [m]
.It
.Tn IBM
16/4 ISA Adapter [+]
.It
.Tn IBM
Auto 16/4 Token-Ring ISA Adapter [+]
.It
3COM 3C619 TokenLink [+]
.It
3COM 3C319 TokenLink Velocity [+]
.bullet)
.It
.Te 2 "Wireless network adapters"
.(bullet -compact
Many Atheros 802.11 cards
.It
3Com AirConnect Wireless LAN
.It
AT\*[Am]T/Lucent/Agere WaveLAN/ORiNOCO IEEE (802.11) PCMCIA cards
.It
Aironet 4500/4800 and Cisco 340 series PCMCIA cards
.It
BayStack 650 802.11FH PCMCIA cards [*] [+]
.It
Corega Wireless LAN PCC-11 cards [*] [+]
.It
DEC/Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS High Rate cards [*] [+]
.It
ELSA AirLancer MC-11 card [*] [+]
.It
Intel 2100/2200BG/2915ABG/4965AGN cards [*] [+]
.It
Intersil Prism II
.It
Melco AIR CONNECT WLI-PCM-L11 cards [*] [+]
.It
NetWave AirSurfer PCMCIA cards [*] [+]
.bullet)
.It
.Te 2 "High Speed Serial"
.(bullet -compact
LAN Media Corporation SSI/LMC10000 (up to 10 Mbps) [*] [+]
.It
LAN Media Corporation HSSI/LMC5200 [*] [+]
.It
LAN Media Corporation DS3/LMC5245 [*] [+]
.bullet)
.It
.Te 2 "Tape drives"
.(bullet -compact
Most SCSI tape drives
.It
Seagate and OnStream ATAPI tape drives, possibly others
.It
QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek- compatible) tape drives [*] [+]
.bullet)
.It
.Te 2 "CD-ROM drives"
.(bullet -compact
Non-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] [+]
.(Note
The Mitsumi driver device probe is known to cause trouble with several
devices!
.Note)
.Pp
.It
Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
.It
Most ATAPI CD-ROM drives.
.(Note
Some low-priced IDE CD-ROM drives are known for being not or not fully ATAPI
compliant, and thus require some hack (generally an entry to a
quirk table) to work with
.Nx .
.Note)
.bullet)
.It
.Te 2 "Mice"
.(bullet -compact
.Dq "Logitech"
.Ns -style
bus mice [*] [+]
.It
.Tn Microsoft Ns No -style bus mice [*] [+]
.It
.Dq "PS/2"
.Ns -style
mice [*] [+]
.It
Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
.bullet)
.It
.Te 2 "Sound Cards"
.(bullet -compact
Aria based sound cards [*]
.It
Cirrus Logic CS461x, CS4280 and CS4281 audio [*] [+]
.It
Ensoniq AudioPCI [*] [+]
.It
ESS Technology ESS 1688 Audiodrive, ES1777/1868/1869/1887/1888/888, Maestro 1/2/2E and
Solo-1 ES1938/1946 [*] [+]
.It
Gravis Ultrasound Plug and Play [*] [+]
.It
Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+]
.It
NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV / 256ZX AC'97 audio [*] [+]
.It
Personal Sound System [*] [+]
.It
ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+]
.It
S3 SonicVibes [*] [+]
.It
SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, SoundBlaster 16 [*] [+]
.It
VIA VT82C686A southbridge integrated AC97 audio [*] [+]
.It
Windows Sound System [*] [+]
.It
Yamaha YMF724/740/744/754 audio (DS-1 series) [*] [+]
.It
Yamaha OPL3-SA3 audio [*] [+]
.bullet)
.It
.Te 2 "Game Ports (Joysticks)"
[*] [+]
.It
.Te 2 "Miscellaneous"
.(bullet -compact
Advanced power management (APM) [*]
.It
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) [*] [+]
.bullet)
.It
Universal Serial Bus (USB)
.(bullet -compact
UHCI host controllers [*] [+]
.It
OHCI host controllers [*] [+]
.It
Hubs [*] [+]
.It
Keyboards using the boot protocol [*] [+]
.It
Mice [*] [+]
.It
Printers [*] [+]
.It
Modems using Abstract Control Model [*] [+]
.It
3G wireless modems [*] [+]
.It
Generic support for HID devices [*] [+]
.It
Ethernet adapters [*] [+]
.It
Audio devices [*] [+]
.It
FTDI based serial adapters [*] [+]
.It
Silicon Labs CP210x serial adapters [*] [+]
.It
Mass storage devices such as disks, ZIP drives and digital cameras [*] [+]
.It
driver for the Prolific host-to-host adapter [*] [+]
.It
Handspring Visor driver [*] [+]
.bullet)
.It
.Te 2 "PCMCIA Controllers."
.br
ISA, PCI, and ISA Plug and Play attachments
.(bullet -compact
Intel 82365 PCIC, rev 0 and rev 1
.It
Cirrus PD6710
.It
Cirrus PD672X
.bullet)
.(Note
This will work with most laptops as well as with ISA cards which provide
PCMCIA slots for desktops.
.Note)
.Pp
.It
.Te 2 "RAID Controllers"
.(bullet -compact
3ware Escalade family of controllers
.It
Compaq Integrated Array (PCI) [b]
.It
Compaq IAES (EISA)
.It
Compaq IDA, IDA-2 (EISA)
.It
Compaq Smart Array 221, 3100ES, 3200, 4200, 4250ES (PCI) [b]
.It
Compaq Smart Array 431, RAID LC2 [b]
.It
Compaq SMART 2, 2/E (EISA)
.It
Compaq SMART 2/E, 2/P, 2DH, 2SL (PCI) [b]
.It
DELL RAID controllers
.(bullet -compact
PERC 2/SC
.It
PERC 2/DC
.It
PERC 4/Di
.It
PERC 4/SC
.It
PERC 4e/Si
.It
CERC 1.5
.bullet)
.It
DPT SCSI RAID boards (ISA [*], EISA and PCI)
.(bullet -compact
SmartCache III
.It
SmartCache IV
.It
SmartRAID III
.It
SmartRAID IV
.bullet)
.It
MegaRAID controllers
.(bullet -compact
320-1
.It
320-2
.It
Series 418
.It
Enterprise 1200 (Series 428)
.It
Enterprise 1300 (Series 434)
.It
Enterprise 1400 (Series 438)
.It
Enterprise 1500 (Series 467)
.It
Enterprise 1600 (Series 471)
.It
Elite 1500 (Series 467)
.It
Elite 1600 (Series 493)
.It
Express 100 (Series 466WS)
.It
Express 200 (Series 466)
.It
Express 300 (Series 490)
.It
Express 500 (Series 475)
.bullet)
.bullet)
.bullet)
.Pp
.Te 2 "Specific driver footnotes:"
.(tag "[*]"
.It [*]
Drivers are
.Em not
present in kernels on the distribution floppies.
Except as noted above, all drivers are present
on all disks.
Also, at the present time, the distributed kernels
support only one SCSI host adapter per machine.
.Nx
normally
allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you can use all of
them by compiling a custom kernel once
.Nx
is installed.
.It [+]
Support
.Em is
included in the
.Li GENERIC
kernels,
although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies.
.It [b]
Devices require BIOS support for PCI-PCI bridging on your motherboard.
Most reasonably modern Pentium motherboards have this support,
or can acquire it via a BIOS upgrade.
.It [m]
Devices are only supported by MCA-enabled kernels.
.tag)