3 Supported Devices

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This section describes the devices currently known to be supported by with FreeBSD on the Alpha/AXP platform. Other configurations may also work, but simply have not been tested yet. Feedback, updates, and corrections to this list are encouraged.

Where possible, the drivers applicable to each device or class of devices is listed. If the driver in question has a manual page in the FreeBSD base distribution (most should), it is referenced here.

3.1 Disk Controllers

IDE/ATA controllers ( ata(4) driver)



Adaptec SCSI Controllers



AMI MegaRAID Express and Enterprise family RAID controllers ( amr(4) driver)

Booting from these controllers is not supported due to SRM limitations.



Mylex DAC960 and DAC1100 RAID controllers with 2.x, 3.x, 4.x and 5.x firmware ( mlx(4) driver)

Booting from these controllers is not supported due to SRM limitations. DAC960 controllers sold by Digital/Compaq for Alpha systems as part of the StorageWorks family, e.g. KZPSC or KZPAC are bootable from SRM. Note that these cards used 2.x firmware. SRM bootability of newer firmware is unknown.



LSI/SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C810a, 53C815, 53C825, 53C825a, 53C860, 53C875, 53C875a, 53C876, 53C885, 53C895, 53C895a, 53C896, 53C1010-33, 53C1010-66, 53C1000, 53C1000R PCI SCSI controllers, either embedded on motherboard or on add-on boards ( ncr(4) and sym(4) drivers)



Qlogic controllers and variants ( isp(4) driver)



LSI Logic Fusion/MP architecture Fiber Channel controllers (mpt driver)



With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for SCSI-I, SCSI-II, and SCSI-III peripherals, including hard disks, optical disks, tape drives (including DAT, 8mm Exabyte, Mammoth, and DLT), medium changers, processor target devices and CD-ROM drives. WORM devices that support CD-ROM commands are supported for read-only access by the CD-ROM drivers (such as cd(4)). WORM/CD-R/CD-RW writing support is provided by cdrecord(1), which is a part of the sysutils/cdrtools port in the Ports Collection.

The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:



3.2 Ethernet Interfaces

Adaptec Duralink PCI Fast Ethernet adapters based on the Adaptec AIC-6915 Fast Ethernet controller chip (sf(4) driver)



AMD PCnet NICs ( lnc(4) and pcn(4) drivers)



National Semiconductor DS8390-based Ethernet NICs, including Novell NE2000 and clones (ed(4) driver)



RealTek 8129/8139 Fast Ethernet NICs (rl(4) driver)



Lite-On 82c168/82c169 PNIC Fast Ethernet NICs (dc(4) driver)



Macronix 98713, 98713A, 98715, 98715A and 98725 Fast Ethernet NICs (dc(4) driver)



Macronix/Lite-On PNIC II LC82C115 Fast Ethernet NICs (dc(4) driver)



Winbond W89C840F Fast Ethernet NICs (wb(4) driver)



VIA Technologies VT3043 ``Rhine I'', VT86C100A ``Rhine II'', and VT6105/VT6105M ``Rhine III'' Fast Ethernet NICs (vr(4) driver)



Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900 and SiS 7016 PCI Fast Ethernet NICs ( sis(4) driver)



National Semiconductor DP83815 Fast Ethernet NICs ( sis(4) driver)



Sundance Technologies ST201 PCI Fast Ethernet NICs ( ste(4) driver)



SysKonnect SK-984x PCI Gigabit Ethernet cards (sk(4) drivers)



Texas Instruments ThunderLAN PCI NICs (tl(4) driver)



ADMtek Inc. AL981-based PCI Fast Ethernet NICs (dc(4) driver)

ADMtek Inc. AN985-based PCI Fast Ethernet NICs (dc(4) driver)



ASIX Electronics AX88140A PCI NICs (dc(4) driver)



DEC DC21040, DC21041, DC21140, DC21141, DC21142, and DC21143 based NICs (de(4) driver)



DEC/Intel 21143 based Fast Ethernet NICs (dc(4) driver)



Davicom DM9009, DM9100 and DM9102 PCI Fast Ethernet NICs (dc(4) driver)



Intel 82557- or 82559-based Fast Ethernet NICs ( fxp(4) driver)



3Com Etherlink XL-based NICs (xl(4) driver)



Ethernet and Fast Ethernet NICs based on the 3Com 3XP Typhoon/Sidewinder (3CR990) chipset ( txp(4) driver)



Gigabit Ethernet NICs based on the Intel 82542 and 82543 controller chips (wx(4), gx(4) and em(4) drivers), plus NICs supported by the Intel 82540EM, 82544, 82545EM, and 82546EB controller chips (em(4) driver only)

Note: The wx(4) driver is deprecated.

Note: The em(4) driver is officially supported by Intel, but is only supported on the i386.



3.3 FDDI Interfaces

DEC DEFPA PCI ( fpa(4) driver)

3.4 ATM Interfaces

3.5 Wireless Network Interfaces

3.6 Miscellaneous Networks

3.7 ISDN Interfaces

3.8 Multi-port Serial Interfaces

AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ

Comtrol Rocketport card (rp(4) driver)

3.9 Audio Devices

ESS



MSS/WSS Compatible DSPs ( pcm(4) driver)

Creative Technologies SoundBlaster series ( sbc(4) driver)



3.10 Camera and Video Capture Devices

3.11 USB Devices

A range of USB peripherals are supported; devices known to work are listed in this section. Owing to the generic nature of most USB devices, with some exceptions any device of a given class will be supported, even if not explicitly listed here.

Note: USB Ethernet adapters can be found in the section listing Ethernet interfaces.

Host Controllers ( ohci(4) and uhci(4) drivers)



Hubs



Keyboards ( ukbd(4) driver)



Mice ( ums(4) driver)



Printers and parallel printer conversion cables ( ulpt(4) driver)



Storage ( umass(4) driver)



3.12 IEEE 1394 (Firewire) Devices

3.13 Cryptographic Accelerators

3.14 Miscellaneous

Floppy drives ( fdc(4) driver)

VGA-compatible video cards ( vga(4) driver)

Note: Information regarding specific video cards and compatibility with XFree86 can be found at http://www.xfree86.org/.



Keyboards including:



Pointing devices including:

Note: moused(8) has more information on using pointing devices with FreeBSD. Information on using pointing devices with XFree86 can be found at http://www.xfree86.org/.



``PC standard'' parallel ports ( ppc(4) driver)

``PC standard'' 8250, 16450, and 16550-based serial ports ( sio(4) driver)

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