Supported Hardware
| The following hardware is known to work with FreeBSD. Disk Controllers (IDE/ATA)Any generic MFM or RLL (WD1003). Any generic IDE (WD1007). ATA controllers. FreeBSD supports UDMA mode on EIDE controllers that can use it. Serial ATA (SATA) is supported for RAID controllers made by Adaptec, Dell, MegaRAID, and AMCC. Note USB mass storage devices (external hard disks) from most major manufacturers are supported, including Iomega, ADTEC, Logitech, Panasonic, IBM, TEAC, Sony, and others. However, booting from USB devices is likely to be problematic. Disk Controllers (SCSI)Note that some SCSI controllers (such as the SoundBlaster SCSI controllers) use a chipset from another manufacturer, such as Adaptec. If you don't find your actual card listed here, check to see what chipset it uses. In some cases, the chipset will be in the following list. Adaptec: 174X series EISA SCSI controllers in standard and enhanced mode 274X/284X/2920C/294X/2950/3940/3950 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI controllers AIC-7850, AIC-7860, AIC-7880, AIC-789X onboard SCSI controllers 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices) 152X series ISA SCSI controllers 154x series and 174x series SCSI controllers AIC-7770 and AIC-78xx series host adapters SCSI RAID 2120S, 2130S, 2200S, 2130SLP, 2230SLP, 5400S AdvanSys: All AdvanSys SCSI controllers are supported. BusLogic: MultiMaster "W" series host adapters, including BT-948, BT-958, and BT-9580 MultiMaster "C" series host adapters, including BT-946C, BT-956C, BT-956CD, BT-445C, BT-747C, BT-757C, BT-757CD, BT-545C, and BT-540CF MultiMaster "S" series host adapters, including BT-445S, BT-747S, BT-747D, BT-757S, BT-757D, BT-545S, BT-542D, BT-742A, and BT-542B MultiMaster "A" series host adapters, including BT-742A and BT-542B Compaq: Intelligent disk array controllers: IDA, IDA-2, IAES, SMART, SMART-2/E, SMART-2/P, SMART-2/SL; Integrated Array; and Smart Arrays 3200, 3100ES, 221, 4200, and 4250ES DPT: SmartCACHE Plus, SmartCACHE III, SmartRAID III, SmartCACHE IV, and SmartRAID IV SCSI/RAID are supported. The DPT SmartRAID/CACHE V is not yet supported. The DPT PM3754U2-16M SCSI RAID controller is also supported. DTC: 3290 SCSI controller in Adaptec 1542 emulation mode MegaRAID: SCSI 320-x series, Enterprise 1200 series, Elite 1500 series, Express 100 series SymBios (also NCR): 53C810, 53C810a, 53C815, 53C820, 53C825a, 53C860, 53C875, 53C875j, 53C885, and 53C896 PCI SCSI controllers, including ASUS SC-200; Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants); Diamond FirePort (all); NCR cards (all); SymBios cards (all); Tekram DC390W, 390U, and 390F; and Tyan S1365 QLogic: 1020, 1240, 2100, and 2200 series SCSI and fiber Note FreeBSD supports SCSI-I and SCSI-II devices. However, CD-RW and WORM devices are supported only in read-only mode by the driver included with FreeBSD. To get write access to these devices, install cdrecord from the FreeBSD ports tree. Optical (CD-ROM/DVD) DrivesAny ATAPI-compliant drive SCSI-based drives Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative Labs SoundBlaster) proprietary drives (562/563 models) All Sony proprietary drives Network CardsThis section lists the network cards supported by FreeBSD. Note that many generic cards, as well as many built-in network adapters, will use one of these chipsets. Therefore, if you don't find your specific card mentioned here, see if you can find out what chipset it uses. For example, many generic network cards have an NE 2000 compatible chipset, and many built-in adapters use the Intel EtherExpress chipsetboth of which are supported by FreeBSD. Adaptec: Duralink PCI Fast Ethernet adapters based on the Adaptec AIC-6195 Fast Ethernet controller chip, including the following:
Allied-Telesyn: AT1700 and RE2000 Alteon Networks: Alteon Networks PCI Gigabit Ethernet NICs based on the Tigon 1 and Tigon 2 chipsets, including 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, and NEC Gigabit Ethernet AMD: PCnet/PCI (79C97x series and 53C974 or 79C974) RealTek: 8129/8139 Fast Ethernet NICs, including the following:
Lite-On: 98713, 98713A, 98715, and 98725 Fast Ethernet NICs, including the following:
Macronix: 98713, 98713A, 98715, 98715A, and 98725 Fast Ethernet NICs, including the following:
Macronix/Lite-On: PNIC II LC82C115 Fast Ethernet NICs, including the LinkSys EtherFast LNE100TX, version 2 Winbond: W89C840F Fast Ethernet NICs, including the Trendware TE100-PCIE Via Technologies: VT3043 "Rhine I" and VT86C100A "Rhine II" Fast Ethernet NICs, including the Hawking Technologies PN102TX and D-Link DFE-530TX Silicon Integrated Systems: SiS 900 and SiS 7016 PCI Fast Ethernet NICs Sundance Technologies: ST201 PCI Fast Ethernet NICs, including the D-Link DFE-550TX SysKonnect: SK-984x PCI Gigabit Ethernet cards, including the following:
Texas Instruments: ThunderLAN PCI NICs, including the following:
ADMTek: AL981-based and AN985-based PCI Fast Ethernet NICs ASIX Electronics: AX88140A PCI NICs, including the Alfa Inc. GFC2204 and CNet Pro110B Broadcom: BCM570x series 10/100/1000baseTX interfaces, including many cards and integrated motherboard chipsets from 3Com, Dell, IBM, HP, Netgear, and SysKonnect DEC: EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205) EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422) DC21040-, DC21041-, or DC21140-based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, and so on) FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs Efficient: ENI-155p ATM PCI FORE: PCA-200E ATM PCI Fujitsu: MB86960A/MB86965A HP: PC Lan+ cards (model numbers 27247B and 27252A) Intel: EtherExpress ISA (not recommended due to driver instability) EtherExpress Pro/10 series EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet Pro/1000 series Gigabit Ethernet Isolan: AT 4141-0 (16 bit) Isolink: 4110 (8 bit) Novell: NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 PCI network cards emulating the NE2000, including the following:
3Com: 3C501 3C503 Etherlink II 3C505 Etherlink/+ 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP 3C509 3C579 3C589 (PCMCIA) 3C590/592/595/900/905/905B/905C PCI and EISA (Fast) Etherlink III/(Fast) Etherlink XL 3C980/3C980B Fast Etherlink XL server adapter 3CSOHO100-TX OfficeConnect adapter Toshiba: All Toshiba Ethernet cards PCMCIA cards: PCMCIA Ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor Wireless Network CardsIntersil PRISM chipset cards (required if you're building a wireless access point) WaveLAN ISA cards by NCR, AT&T, or Lucent Cisco Aironet 802.11b Raytheon Raylink Cisco AIR series D-Link DWL series Elecom LD-WL54 series Fujitsu E5454 and FMV-JW481 HP NC4000 I/O Data WN-A series Linksys WMP and WPC series NEC PA-WL/54AG Netgear WA series and WG series Orinoco 8480 and 8470WD Proxim Skyline 4030/4032 Samsung SWL-5200N SMC 2536W-AG and 2735W Sony PCWA series 3Com 3CRPAG175 USB DevicesUSB keyboards USB mice USB printers and USB-toparallel printer conversion cables USB hubs USB scanners Asahi Optical (Pentax) Optio 230/330 digital cameras Sound Devices16550 UART (Midi). (Experimental; needs a trick in the hints file.) Advance Asound 100, 110, and Logic ALS120. Aureal Vortex1/Vortex2 and Vortex Advantagebased sound cards by a third-party driver. Creative Labs SB16, SB32, SB AWE64 (including Gold), Vibra16, SB PCI (experimental), SB Live! (experimental), and most SoundBlaster-compatible cards. Creative Labs SB Midi Port (experimental) and SB OPL3 Synthesizer (experimental). Crystal Semiconductor CS461x/462x Audio Accelerator. (The support for the CS461x Midi port is experimental.) Crystal Semiconductor CS428x audio controller. CS4237, CS4236, CS4232, and CS4231 (ISA). ENSONIQ AudioPCI ES1370/1371. ESS ES1868, ES1869, ES1879, and ES1888. Gravis UltraSound PnP and MAX. NeoMagic 256AV/ZX (PCI). OPTi931 (ISA). OSS-compatible sequencer (Midi). (Experimental.) Trident 4DWave DX/NX (PCI). Yamaha OPL-SAx (ISA). FireWire (IEEE 1394) DevicesFireWire interface cards made by the following manufacturers are likely to be supported: Adaptec Apple Intel NEC National Semiconductor Ricoh Sony Sun Texas Instruments Bluetooth Devices3Com/HP 3CRWB6096-A and 3CREB96 AIPTEK BR0R02 EPoX BT-DG02 Mitsumi USB MSI MS-6967 TDK USB |
