Supported Hardware

[Fatmice]

Many of new posters frequently ask about support for certain hardware.

This thread is an attempt to list website/resources that detail such.


This will likely be incomplete and a work in progress.

FreeBSD 7.x compatible hardware (from release notes)
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html

FreeBSD 8.x compatible hardware (from release notes)
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R...e.html#SUPPORT

FreeBSD compatible laptops.
http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/
http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee


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Legacy releases.
FreeBSD 6.x compatible hardware (from release notes)
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware.html

FreeBSD 5.x compatible hardware (from release notes)
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/hardware.html

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Nvidia drivers:
32bit: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/FreeBSD-x86/
64bit: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/FreeBSD-x86_64/

Nvidia legacy drivers:
32bit: ftp://download.nvidia.com/freebsd/

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ATI drivers: Supported through Xorg's xf86-video-ati driver module. This ships by default with each PCBSD distribution.
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon

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Wireless:
Ralink RT2500 chipset: http://ralink.rapla.net/
Ralink RT2500/RT2600 chipset http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ral/ral-freebsd.html
Ralink RT2860 chipset http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=2475&page=2, (testing) http://repo.or.cz/w/ralink_drivers.git
Ralink RT2870 chipset http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=7010&page=3 , (testing) http://repo.or.cz/w/ralink_drivers.git
Intel wireless controllers (2100, 2200, 2225, 2915, 3945, 4965, 5100, 5300) http://149.20.54.209/showthread.php?p=87503