. .Nx \*V runs on ISA (AT-Bus), EISA, MCA, PCI, and VL-bus systems with 386-family processors, with or without math coprocessors. The minimal configuration is said to require 4 MB of RAM and 50 MB of disk space, though we do not know of anyone running with a system quite this minimal today. To install the entire system requires much more disk space (the unpacked binary distribution, without sources, requires at least 65 MB without counting space needed for swap space, etc), and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended. (4 MB of RAM will actually allow you to run X and/or compile, but it won't be speedy. Note that until you have around 16 MB of RAM, getting more RAM is more important than getting a faster CPU.) . .Ss2 Supported devices Explanation of bracketted footnote tags [] follows this listing. .(bullet -offset indent .Te 2 "Floppy controllers." t .Te 2 "MFM, ESDI, IDE, and RLL hard disk controllers."
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 t Acer labs M5229 IDE Controller t Advanced Micro Devices AMD-756, 766 and 768 IDE Controllers t CMD Tech PCI0643, 0646, 0648 and 0649 IDE Controllers t Contaq Microsystems/Cypress CY82C693 IDE Controller t HighPoint HPT366 and HPT370 t IBM ESDI Fixed Disk Controllers [m] t Intel PIIX, PIIX3 and PIIX4 IDE Controllers t Intel 82801 (ICH/ICH0/ICH2) IDE Controllers t Promise PDC20246 (Ultra/33), PDC20262 (Ultra/66), PDC20265/PDC20267 (Ultra/100), PDC20268 (Ultra/100TX2 and Ultra/100TX2v2) and Ultra/133. t Silicon Integrated System 5597/5598 IDE controller t VIA Technologies VT82C586, VT82C586A, VT82C596A and VT82C686A IDE Controllers .bullet)
p 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. t .Te 2 "SCSI host adapters" .(bullet -compact Adaptec AHA-154xA, -B, -C, and -CF t Adaptec AHA-1640 cards (MCA variant of AHA-1540) [m] t Adaptec AHA-174x t 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)
p t Adaptec AHA-2910, 2915, 2920, and 2930C adapters. t 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. t Adaptec AHA-394x[U][W] cards [b] t Adaptec AHA-3950U2 cards t Adaptec AHA-3960, 19160 and 29160 Ultra-160 adapters t AdvanSys ABP-9x0[U][A] cards t AdvanSys ABP-940UW[68], ABP-970UW[68], ASB3940UW-00 cards t AMD PCscsi-PCI (Am53c974) based SCSI adapters, including Tekram DC-390 t BusLogic 54x (Adaptec AHA-154x clones) t BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx (but not the new .Sq FlashPoint series of BusLogic SCSI adapters) t Qlogic ISP [12]0x0 SCSI/FibreChannel boards t Seagate/Future Domain ISA SCSI adapter cards .(bullet -compact ST01/02 t Future Domain TMC-885 t Future Domain TMC-950 .bullet) t Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx-based PCI SCSI host adapters .(bullet -compact Acculogic PCIpport t ASUS SC-200 (requires NCR BIOS on motherboard to boot from disks) t ASUS SC-875 t ASUS SP3[G] motherboard onboard SCSI t .Tn DEC Celebris XL/590 onboard SCSI t Diamond FirePort 40 t Lomas Data SCSI adapters t 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!) t Promise DC540 (a particularly common OEM model of the SYM 8125) t Tekram DC-390U/F t Tyan Yorktown .bullet) t Symbios Logic (NCR) 5380/53C400-based ISA SCSI host adapters [*] t Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f t Western Digital WD7000 SCSI and TMC-7000 host adapters (ISA cards only) .bullet) t .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 XFree86 FAQ for more information. .Note)
p t .Te 2 "Serial ports" .(bullet -compact 8250/16450-based ports t 16550/16650/16750-based ports t AST-style 4-port serial cards [*] t BOCA 8-port serial cards [*] t BOCA 6-port (ioat) serial cards [*] t .Tn IBM PC-RT 4-port serial cards [*] t TCOM TC-400 (4-port), TC-800 (8-port) serial cards [*] t Single-port Hayes ESP serial cards [*] t Cyclades Cyclom-Y serial cards [*] [+] t Addonics FlexPort 8S 8-port serial cards [*] t Byte Runner Technologies TC-400 and TC-800 serial cards [*] t PCI universal communication cards .bullet) t .Te 2 "Parallel ports." [*] [+] t .Te 2 "Ethernet adapters" .(bullet -compact AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA Ethernet adapters [*] .(bullet -compact Novell NE1500T t Novell NE2100 t Kingston 21xx t Digital EtherWORKS II ISA adapters (DE200/DE201/DE202) .bullet) t AMD LANCE and PCnet-based MCA Ethernet adapters [m] .(bullet -compact SKNET Personal t SKNET MC+ .bullet) t AMD PCnet-based PCI Ethernet adapters .(bullet -compact Addtron AE-350 t BOCALANcard/PCI t SVEC FD0455 t X/Lan Add-On Adapter t .Tn IBM #13H9237 PCI Ethernet Adapter .bullet) t AT\*&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber t 3COM 3c501 t 3COM 3c503 t 3COM 3c505 [*] t 3COM 3c507 t 3COM 3c509, 3c579, 3c589, and 3c59X t 3COM 3c523 EtherLink/MC [m] t 3COM 3c529 EtherLink III [m] t 3COM 3c90X (including 3c905B), 3c450, 3c55X, 3c575, 3c980, 3cSOHO100 t Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters .(bullet -compact Accton EN2242 t ASUS PCI-DEC100TX+ t Cogent EM1X0, EM960 (a.k.a. Adaptec ANA-69XX) t Cogent EM964 [b] t Cogent EM4XX [b] t Compex Readylink PCI t DANPEX EN-9400P3 t Digital Celebris GL, GLST on-board ethernet t .Tn DEC
q Tn Digital PCI Ethernet/Fast Ethernet adapters (all) t DLINK DFE500-TX t JCIS Condor JC1260 t Linksys PCI Fast Ethernet t SMC EtherPower 10, 10/100 (PCI only!) t SMC EtherPower^2 [b] t SVEC PN0455 t SVEC FD1000-TP t Znyx ZX34X .bullet) t Digital EtherWORKS III ISA adapters (DE203/DE204/DE205) [*] t Digital DEPCM-BA (PCMCIA) and DE305 (ISA) NE2000-compat. cards t BICC Isolan [* and not recently tested] t Efficient Networks EN-155 and Adaptec AIC-590x ATM interfaces t Essential Communications Hippi (800 Mbit/s) t Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A based cards .(bullet -compact Fujitsu FMV-180 series t Allied-Telesis AT1700 series t Allied-Telesis AT1700 series MCA [m] t Allied-Telesis RE2000 series .bullet) t Intel EtherExpress 16 t Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 t Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters t Novell NE1000, NE2000 (ISA, PCI, PCMCIA, ISA PnP) t RealTek 8129/8139 based boards t SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC .Sq Elite16 ISA boards t SMC/WD 8003, 8013 and IBM PS/2 Adapter/A MCA boards [m] t SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC .Sq "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards) t SMC 91C9x-based boards (ISA and PCMCIA) t SMC EPIC/100 Fast Ethernet boards .(bullet -compact SMC Etherpower-II .bullet) t Texas Instruments ThunderLAN based ethernet boards .(bullet -compact Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX t Compaq ProLiant Integrated Netelligent 10/100 TX t Compaq Netelligent 10 T (untested) t Compaq Integrated NetFlex 3/P t Compaq NetFlex 3/P in baseboard variant (the PCI variant doesn't use the same chip!) t Compaq Dual Port Netelligent 10/100 TX t Compaq Deskpro 4000 5233MMX (untested) t Texas Instruments TravelMate 5000 series laptop docking station Ethernet board .bullet) t VIA VT3043 (Rhine) and VT86C100A (Rhine-II) based ethernet boards .(bullet -compact D-Link DFE530TX .bullet) .bullet) t .Te 2 "FDDI adapters" .(bullet -compact Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters [*] [+] t Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adapters [*] [+] .bullet) t .Te 2 "Token-Ring adapters" .(bullet -compact .Tn IBM Token-Ring Network PC Adapter [+] t .Tn IBM Token-Ring Network PC Adapter II [+] t .Tn IBM Token-Ring Network Adapter/A [+] t .Tn IBM Token-Ring Network 16/4 Adapter [+] t .Tn IBM Token-Ring Network 16/4 Adapter/A [m] t .Tn IBM 16/4 ISA Adapter [+] t .Tn IBM Auto 16/4 Token-Ring ISA Adapter [+] t 3COM 3C619 TokenLink [+] t 3COM 3C319 TokenLink Velocity [+] .bullet) t .Te 2 "Wireless network adapters" .(bullet -compact 3Com AirConnect Wireless LAN t AT\*&T/Lucent/Agere WaveLAN/ORiNOCO IEEE (802.11) PCMCIA cards t Aironet 4500/4800 and Cisco 340 series PCMCIA cards t BayStack 650 802.11FH PCMCIA cards [*] [+] t Corega Wireless LAN PCC-11 cards [*] [+] t DEC/Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS High Rate cards [*] [+] t ELSA AirLancer MC-11 card [*] [+] t Intersil Prism II t Melco AIR CONNECT WLI-PCM-L11 cards [*] [+] t NetWave AirSurfer PCMCIA cards [*] [+] .bullet) t .Te 2 "High Speed Serial" .(bullet -compact LAN Media Corporation SSI/LMC10000 (up to 10 Mbps) [*] [+] t LAN Media Corporation HSSI/LMC5200 [*] [+] t LAN Media Corporation DS3/LMC5245 [*] [+] .bullet) t .Te 2 "Tape drives" .(bullet -compact Most SCSI tape drives t Seagate and OnStream ATAPI tape drives, possibly others t QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek- compatible) tape drives [*] [+] .bullet) t .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)
p t Most SCSI CD-ROM drives t 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) t .Te 2 "Mice" .(bullet -compact .Dq "Logitech" .Ns -style bus mice [*] [+] t .Tn Microsoft Ns No -style bus mice [*] [+] t .Dq "PS/2" .Ns -style mice [*] [+] t Serial mice (no kernel support necessary) .bullet) t .Te 2 "Sound Cards" .(bullet -compact Aria based sound cards [*] t Cirrus Logic CS461x, CS4280 and CS4281 audio [*] [+] t Ensoniq AudioPCI [*] [+] t ESS Technology ESS 1688 Audiodrive, ES1777/1868/1869/1887/1888/888, Maestro 1/2/2E and Solo-1 ES1938/1946 [*] [+] t Gravis Ultrasound Plug and Play [*] [+] t Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+] t NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV / 256ZX AC'97 audio [*] [+] t Personal Sound System [*] [+] t ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+] t S3 SonicVibes [*] [+] t SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, SoundBlaster 16 [*] [+] t VIA VT82C686A southbridge integrated AC97 audio [*] [+] t Windows Sound System [*] [+] t Yamaha YMF724/740/744/754 audio (DS-1 series) [*] [+] t Yamaha OPL3-SA3 audio [*] [+] .bullet) t .Te 2 "Game Ports (Joysticks)" [*] [+] t .Te 2 "Miscellaneous" .(bullet -compact Advanced power management (APM) [*] .bullet) t Universal Serial Bus (USB) .(bullet -compact UHCI host controllers [*] [+] t OHCI host controllers [*] [+] t Hubs [*] [+] t Keyboards using the boot protocol [*] [+] t Mice [*] [+] t Printers [*] [+] t Modems using Abstract Control Model [*] [+] t Generic support for HID devices [*] [+] t Ethernet adapters [*] [+] t Audio devices [*] [+] t driver for FTDI based serial adapters [*] [+] t Mass storage devices such as disks, ZIP drives and digital cameras [*] [+] t driver for the Prolific host-to-host adapter [*] [+] t Handspring Visor driver [*] [+] .bullet) t .Te 2 "PCMCIA Controllers."
ISA, PCI, and ISA Plug and Play attachments .(bullet -compact Intel 82365 PCIC, rev 0 and rev 1 t Cirrus PD6710 t Cirrus PD672X .bullet) .(Note This will work with most laptops as well as with ISA cards which provide PCMCIA slots for desktops. .Note)
p t .Te 2 "RAID Controllers" .(bullet -compact 3ware Escalade family of controllers t Compaq Integrated Array (PCI) [b] t Compaq IAES (EISA) t Compaq IDA, IDA-2 (EISA) t Compaq Smart Array 221, 3100ES, 3200, 4200, 4250ES (PCI) [b] t Compaq Smart Array 431, RAID LC2 [b] t Compaq SMART 2, 2/E (EISA) t Compaq SMART 2/E, 2/P, 2DH, 2SL (PCI) [b] t DPT SCSI RAID boards (ISA [*], EISA and PCI) .(bullet -compact SmartCache III t SmartCache IV t SmartRAID III t SmartRAID IV .bullet) .bullet) .bullet)
p .Te 2 "Specific driver footnotes:" .(tag "[*]" t [*] 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. t [+] Support .Em is included in the .Li GENERIC kernels, although it is not in the kernels which are on the distribution floppies. t [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. t [m] Devices are only supported by MCA-enabled kernels. .Ss2 Unsupported devices Hardware the we do .Em not currently support, but get many questions about: .(bullet -offset indent Multiprocessor systems. .Nx will run, but only use one processor. t PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters. t QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives. (Drives that connect to the floppy disk controller.) .bullet)
p
We are planning future support for many of these devices.
.Ss2 Required configurations
To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
be configured as follows:
(disp
d -literal Device Name Port IRQ DRQ Misc
------ ---- ---- --- --- ----
Serial ports com0 0x3f8 4 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
com1 0x2f8 3 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
com2 0x3e8 5 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
Parallel ports lpt0 0x378 7 [interrupt-driven or polling]
lpt1 0x278 [polling only]
lpt2 0x3bc [polling only]
Floppy controller
fdc0 0x3f0 6 2 [supports two disks]
AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
aha0 0x330 any any
aha1 0x334 any any
AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
ahb0 any any any
AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
aic0 0x340 11 6
AHA-2X4X or AIC-7xxx-based SCSI host adapters [precise list: see NetBSD
ahc0 any any any System Requirements and
Supported Devices]
AdvanSys ABP-9x0[U][A] SCSI host adapters
adv0 any any any
AdvanSys ABP-940UW[68], ABP-970UW[68], ASB3940UW-00 SCSI host adapters
adw0 any any any
AMD PCscsi-PCI based SCSI host adapters
pcscp0 any any any
BusLogic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
bha0 0x330 any any
bha1 0x334 any any
Seagate/Future Domain SCSI
sea0 any 5 any iomem 0xd8000
Symbios Logic/NCR 53C8xx, 53c1010 and 53c1510D based PCI SCSI host adapters
siop0 any any any
esiop0 any any any
Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
uha0 0x330 any any
uha1 0x340 any any
Western Digital WD7000 based ISA SCSI host adapters
wds0 0x350 15 6
wds1 0x358 11 5
PCI IDE hard disk controllers
pciide0 any any any [supports four devices]
MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
wdc0 0x1f0 14 [supports two devices]
wdc1 0x170 15 [supports two devices]
ATA disks wd0, wd1, ...
SCSI and ATAPI disks sd0, sd1, ...
SCSI tapes st0, st1, ...
SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROMs cd0, cd1, ...
For each SCSI and IDE controller found, the SCSI or ATA(PI) devices
present on the bus are probed in increasing ID order for SCSI and
master/slave order for ATA(PI). So the first SCSI drive found will
be called sd0, the second sd1, and so on ...
StarLAN cards
ai0 0x360 7 any iomem 0xd0000
FMV-180 series cards
fmv0 0x2a0 any
AT1700 cards
ate0 0x2a0 any
Intel EtherExpress/16 cards
ix0 0x300 10
Intel EtherExpress PRO 10 ISA cards
iy0 0x360 any
CS8900 Ethernet cards
cs0 0x300 any any
3Com 3c501 Ethernet cards
el0 0x300 9
3Com 3c503 Ethernet cards
ec0 0x250 9 iomem 0xd8000
3Com 3c505 Ethernet cards
eg0 0x280 9
3Com 3c507 Ethernet cards
ef0 0x360 7 iomem 0xd0000
Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
ne0 0x280 9
ne1 0x300 10
Novell NE2100 Ethernet boards
ne2 0x320 9 7
BICC IsoLan cards
ne3 0x320 10 7
SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards
we0 0x280 9 iomem 0xd0000
we1 0x300 10 iomem 0xcc000
3COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards
ep0 any any
3COM 3x59X PCI Ethernet boards
ep0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
3COM 3x90X PCI Ethernet boards
ex0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
Intel EtherExpress PRO 10 ISA
iy0 0x360 any
Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters
fxp0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
SMC91C9x based Ethernet cards
sm0 0x300 10
PCnet-PCI based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
le0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
DC21x4x based Ethernet boards; see above for partial list
de0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
Digital EtherWORKS III (DE203/DE204/DE205) LEMAC
lc0 0x320 any
Qlogic ISP [12]0x0 SCSI/FibreChannel boards
isp0 any any
Efficient Networks EN-155 and Adaptec AIC-590x ATM interfaces
en0 any any
SMC EPIC/100 Fast Ethernet boards
epic0 any any
Texas Instruments ThunderLAN based ethernet boards
tl0 any any
VIA VT3043(Rhine) and VT86C100A(Rhine-II) based ethernet boards
vr0 any any
IBM TROPIC based Token-Ring cards
tr0 0xa20 any iomem 0xd8000
tr1 0xa24 any iomem 0xd0000
tr2 any any
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