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OpenBSD/MACHINE OSREV works across a broad range of standard PC's and
clones, with a wide variety of processors and I/O bus architectures. It
can be expected to install and run with minimal difficulties on most
current products. The cases where problems may be encountered are
typically older proprietary PC's, Laptops or specialized server boxes
that rely on a custom BIOS to paper over implementation differences.
OpenBSD does not currently support multiple processors (SMP), but will
run using one processor on a multi-processor system board.
The minimal configuration to install the system is 6M or 8M of RAM and
perhaps 60M of disk space. A custom kernel might be able to run
with only 4MB, 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, and to run X or compile the system, more RAM
is recommended. (8M of RAM will actually allow you to run X and/or
compile but it won't be speedy. Note that until you have around 16M
of RAM, getting more RAM is more important than getting a faster CPU.)
Supported hardware {:-include-:}:
Processors
All CPU chips compatible with the Intel 80386 (MACHINE)
architecture:
386/486 (SX/DX/DX2/DX4)
Intel Pentium/Pentium-MMX
Intel Pentium Pro/II/III/Celeron/Xeon
Intel Pentium IV
AMD 6x86
AMD K5/K6/K6-2/K6-3
AMD Athlon/Duron
Cyrix MediaGX/M1/M2
VIA Cyrix III
Rise mP6
IDT WinChip
NexGen 586
Transmeta TMS3200, TMS5400, TMS5600
Everything that is a clone of the 386 or up should work
fine. The only CPU that is known to work poorly (due to
flawed motherboards designs) is the Cyrix 386DLC.
Buses
All standard ISA, EISA, VLB, and PCI bus based machines,
including:
Intel 450GX/KX based machines
Intel 450NX based machines
ServerWorks chipset-based machines
(We just had to mention those last three, since
they are the hardest to support)
Both 16-bit PCMCIA Cards and newer 32-bit CardBus
support
Universal Serial Bus (USB)
The MCA bus found in various IBM PS/2 machines is not
supported.
Bus Interfaces
Standard PCI-PCI bridges, including PCI expansion
backplanes
YENTA-compatible PCI-CardBus bridges
Entropy Sources
Interrupt latency collection from many devices
Intel 82802 random number generator found on i810, i815,
i820, i840, i850 and i860 based systems.
Disk Controllers
Floppy controllers.
ISA MFM, ESDI, IDE, and RLL hard disk controllers.
PCI IDE Controllers
Acard ATP850, ATP860
Acer Labs M5229
Advanced Micro Devices 756, 766
CMD Tech PCI0640, PCI0643, PCI0646, PCI0648, and PCI0649
Contaq Microsytems/Cypress CY82C693
HighPoint HPT366, HPT370
Intel PIIX, PIIX3, and PIIX4
Intel 82801 (ICH/ICH0/ICH2)
OPTi 82C568, 82D568, and 82C621
Promise PDC20246, PDC20262, PDC20265/7/8 (but the Promise
RAID mode is not supported)
Silicon Integrated Systems 5513 (5597/5598)
VIA Technologies VT82C586[A], VT82C596, VT82C686
(Other PCI IDE-compliant controllers should work, but
those not listed above may not be capable of DMA modes)
SCSI Host Adapters
Adaptec AHA-1540, AHA-154xA, AHA-154xB, AHA-1542C,
AHA-1542CF, AHA-1542CP, AHA-1640
Adaptec AHA-174x
Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, including:
the Adaptec AHA-152x and the SoundBlaster SCSI
host adapter. (Note that you cannot boot from
these boards if they do not have a boot ROM;
only the AHA-152x and motherboards using this chip
are likely to be bootable, consequently.)
Adaptec AIC-7770-based boards, including the Adaptec
AHA-274x and AHA-284x families)
Adaptec AHA-[23]94x[W] cards and some on-board PCI designs
using the AIC7870 and AIC7880 chips.
Adaptec AHA-[23]94xU[2W] cards and some on-board PCI designs
using the AIC789[01], AIC7895, AIC789[67] chips
Adaptec AIC-780[29] chips and products like the
AHA-29160 based upon it which do 160MB/sec SCSI.
AdvanSys 'U', 'UW', 'U2W' and 'U160' PCI SCSI
controllers including the ABP940U[AW],
ASB3940U[AW]-00, ASB3940U2W-00 and ASB3950U160
AMD Am53c974 PCscsi-PCI SCSI controllers, including:
Tekram DC-390
Buslogic BT-54x (Adaptec AHA-154x clones)
BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx (but not the new "FlashPoint" series
of BusLogic SCSI adapters)
Initio INIC-940 and INIC-950 based PCI SCSI host
adapters, including the Initio INI-9090U,
Initio INI-9100U/UW, Iwill 2935UW, and
DTC Domex 3194U Plus
QLogic PCI SCSI controllers
Seagate/Future Domain ISA SCSI adapter cards, including:
ST01/02
Future Domain TMC-885
Future Domain TMC-950
Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx, 53C1010, and 53C1510D-based
PCI SCSI host adapters (including generic/no
name cards, old ASUS cards, the DTC-3130 series,
Diamond Fireport series, etc.)
Tekram DC-300B and DC-320E (Adaptec AHA-154x clones)
Tekram DC-3x5U (DC-315U, DC-395U/UW/F) TRM-S1040 based
PCI SCSI host adapters
Ultrastor 14f, 24f, and 34f
WD-7000 SCSI host adapters
RAID and Cache Controllers
3ware Escalade 3W-5x00, 3W-6x00 [*] [+]
Adaptec FSA-based RAID controllers, including:
Adaptec AAC-2622, AAC-364, AAC-3642
Dell PERC 2/Si, PERC 2/QC, PERC 3/Si, PERC 3/Di,
PERC 3/QC
HP NetRAID-4M
American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID controllers in "Mass
Storage" mode
Compaq Smart ARRAY PCI/EISA adapters, including:
Compaq Integrated Array
Compaq IAES
Compaq IDA, IDA-2
Compaq RAID LC2
Compaq Smart Array 221, 3100ES, 3200, 4200,
4250ES, 431
Compaq SMART, SMART-2/E, SMART-2/P, SMART-2DH,
SMART-2SL
DPT SmartCache and SmartRaid III/IV PCI/EISA adapters
ICP-Vortex GDT 6XXXR[DNPS] series
I2O (intelligent I/O) RAID controllers, including:
Adaptec SCSI RAID (ASR-2100S, ASR-3200S, etc)
American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID controllers
(in I2O mode)
and probably other vendors' controllers supporting
I2O, including Intel and Mylex (untested)
CD-ROM and DVD-ROM Drives
Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] [+]
[Note: The Mitsumi driver device probe is known
to cause trouble with several devices!]
Most SCSI CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, and DVD drives
Most ATAPI CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, and DVD drives
Tape Drives
Most SCSI tape drives
Most SCSI tape changers
QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek-
MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters. (Note that not
all of the display adapters OpenBSD/MACHINE can work with
are supported by X. See the XFree86 FAQ for more
information.)
Serial Ports
8250/16450-based ports
16550-based ports
ST16660-base ports
XR16850-based ports (only in the pccom driver)
AST-style 4-port serial boards [*]
BOCA 8-port serial cards [*]
Cyclades Cyclom-{4, 8, 16}Y serial boards [*]
IBM PC-RT 4-port serial boards [*]
Addonics FlexPort 8S [*]
Parallel Ports
Any standard parallel port
Communication Controllers
Universal Serial Bus host controllers, including:
USB Universal Host Controller
USB Open Host Controller
PCI `universal' communication cards, providing serial
and parallel ports, including:
Dolphin Peripherals 4014 (dual parallel) and
4035 (dual serial)
SIIG Cyber 2P1S (dual parallel, single serial)
and 2S1P (dual serial, single parallel)
SIIG Cyber 4S (quad serial)
SIIG Cyber I/O (single parallel, single serial)
SIIG Cyber Parallel, Parallel Dual, Serial,
Serial Dual
VScom PCI-800 (8 port serial, probably OEM)
AT&T/Lucent Venus Modem (found on IBM 33L4618
card, Actiontec 56K, and others)
US Robotics 3CP5609 PCI (modem)
Lava Computers 2SP-PCI (parallel port)
Lava Computers 2SP-PCI and Quattro-PCI (dual
serial)
NEC PK-UG-X008 (serial)
NEC PK-UG-X001 K56flex PCI (modem)
Koutech IOFLEX-2S (dual serial)
Ethernet Adapters
3Com 3c501
3Com 3c503
3Com 3c505 [*]
3Com 3c507
3Com 3c509, 3c579, and 3c59x
3Com 3c515 [*] [+]
3Com 3c9xx Etherlink XL adapters, including:
3Com 3c900/3c900B PCI adapters
3Com 3c905/3c905B/3c905C PCI adapters
3Com 3c980/3c980C server adapters
3Com 3cSOHO apapter
3Com 3c900B-FL and 3c900B-FL/FX fiber optic
adapters
3Com 3c555/3c556/3c556B MiniPCI adapters
Dell on-board 3c920
Dell Precision on-board 3c905B
Dell OptiPlex GX1 on-board 3c918
Dell Latitude laptop docking station embedded
3c905
3Com 3c990 3XP Typhoon/Sidewinder PCI adapters, including:
3C990-TX-95
3C990-TX-97
3C990-TX-SVR95
3C990-TX-SVR97
Adaptec "Starfire" AIC-6915 based PCI adapters, including:
Adaptec Single32 ANA-69011
Adaptec Single64 ANA-62011 and ANA-62020
Adaptec Duo64 ANA-62022
Adaptec Quartet64 ANA-62044
ADMtek AL981 ("Comet") and AN983 ("Centaur-P") based PCI
adapters, including:
Accton EN2242 MiniPCI
Linksys LNE100TX v4.x
Mototech ME316
ADMtek AN986-based USB adapters, including:
Billionton Systems USB100
Corega FEther USB-TX
D-Link DSB-650TX
I/O Data USB ETTX
LinkSys USB100TX, USB100H1 and USB10TA
Melco Inc. LUA-TX
SMC 2202USB
SOHOware NUB100
Kingston KNU101TX
AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA Ethernet adapters, including:
Novell NE1500T
Novell NE2100
Kingston 21xx
AMD PCnet-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
BOCALANcard/PCI
AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
ASIX 88140A/88141 PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
CNet Pro110B
Alfa Inc. GFC2204
CATC USB-EL1210A-based USB adapters, including:
CATC Netmate and Netmate II
Belkin F5U011/F5U111
Davicom DM9100, DM9102, and DM9102A based PCI adapters,
including:
Jaton XpressNet
DEC EtherWORKS III adapters, including:
DEC DE203, DE204, DE205
Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
Older SMC PCI EtherPower 10, 10/100 (models
8432, 9332, and 9334)
Older LinkSys 10, 10/100 (newer models are
supported by other drivers)
Znyx ZX3xx
Cogent EM100FX and EM440TX
Digital PCI DE435, EISA DE425, DE450, DE500
Asante
Intel EtherExpress 16
Intel EtherExpross PRO/10 ISA
Intel i8255x-based (except the i82556) PCI adapters,
including:
Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+
Intel EtherExpress PRO/100, PRO/100B, and PRO/100+
Intel EtherExpress PRO/100+ "Management Adapter"
Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 Dual Port
Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101B-based USB adapters, including:
3Com 3c19250
3Com 3c460 HomeConnect
ADS Technologies USB-10T
Aox USB101
ATen UC10T
Corega USB-T
D-Link DSB-650
Entegra NET-USB-E45
Kawasaki USB101
LinkSys USB10T
Netger EA101
Peracom USB
SMC 2102/2104USB
I/O Data USB-ET/T
Lite-On PNIC/PNIC-II-based adapters, including:
Kingston KNE110TX
LinkSys LNE100TX
Matrox Networks FastNIC 10/100
Netgear FA310TX
Macronix 98713/713A/715/715A/725/727/732-based adapters,
including:
Accton EN1217
Addtron AEF-320TX/AEF-330TX
CNet PRO120A/PRO120B
Complex RL-100TX
NDC Communications SOHOware SFA110A
SVEC PN102-TX Fast Ethernet card
National Semiconductor DP83815-based PCI adapters,
including:
Netgear FA311/FA312
Novell NE1000, NE2000
RealTek 8129, RealTek 8139 Ethernet adapters, including:
Accton MPX 5030/5038
Allied Telesyn AT2550
D-Link DFE530TX+, DFE538TX
Encore ENL832-TX 10/100 M PCI
Genius GF100TXR
KTX-9130TX 10/100 Fast Ethernet
Longshine LCS-8038TX-R
NDC NE100TX-E
Netronix EA-1210 Net Ether 10/100
Nortel BayStack 21
OvisLink LEF-8129TX, LEF-8139TX
SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI 1211-TX
SiS 900 and SiS 7016-based PCI adapters, including:
Mototech ME313
NetSurf NS-KFE30D
SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards
SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards) [X SEE BELOW]
SMC EtherEZ PNP
SMC EtherPower II (EPIC 10/100)
Sundance ST201-based PCI adapters, including:
D-Link DFE-550TX
Texas Instruments ThunderLAN PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
Compaq Netelligent PCI Adapters
Compaq NetFlex 3/P
Compaq Deskpro integrated adapter
Compaq Prosignia integrated adapter
Olicom OC2135, OC2183, OC2325, OC2326
Racore 8165 and 8148
TI ThunderLAN adapters
VIA Rhine/RhineII Ethernet adapters, including:
Addtron AEF-360TX
Hawking PN102TX
D-Link DFE530TX
Winbond W89C840F Ethernet adapters, including:
Trendware TE100-PCIE
Compex RL100-ATX 10/100baseTX
Wireless Ethernet Adapters
Aironet 802.11DS PCMCIA and PCI
RayLink Aviator 2.4/Pro 802.11FH PCMCIA
WaveLAN IEEE 802.11DS
Addtron AWP-100 802.11DS PCMCIA
Gigabit Ethernet Adapters
Alteon Tigon I/II PCI Gigabit Ethernet boards
3Com 3c985 and 3c985B
Alteon ACEnic V (fiber and copper)
Digital EtherWORKS 1000SX
Farallon PN9000SX
Netgear GA620 and GA620T
SGI Tigon
Intel i82452-based adapters, including:
Intel Pro/1000 Gigabit Server adapter
National Semiconductor DP83280 and DP83281 based PCI
adapters, including:
Addtron AEG320T
Asante FriendlyNet GigaNIX 1000TA and 1000TPC
D-Link DGE-500T
LinkSys EG1032 and EG1064
Netgear GA622T
SMC EZ Card 1000
Surecom Technology EP-320G-TX
Level1 LXT1001 based adapters (untested), including:
SMC TigerCard 1000
D-Link DGE-500SX
Broadcom BCM570x (Tigon3) based PCI adapters, including:
3Com 3c996-T (10/100/1000baseTX)
Dell PowerEdge 2550 integrated BCM5700 NIC
SysKonnect SK-9D21 (10/100/1000baseTX)
SysKonnect SK-9D41 (1000baseSX)
Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 based PCI adapters, including:
D-Link DGE-550T (10/100/1000baseTX)
Antares Microsystems Gigabit Ethernet board
SysKonnect SK-9841/9842/9843/9844 Gigabit Ethernet
adapters
ATM Adapters
Efficient Networks EN-155 and Adaptec ANA-590X ATM
interfaces
FDDI Adapters
Digital DEFEA EISA and PCI FDDI adapters
Wan Adapters
Lan Media Corporation SSI (T1)/HSSI/DS1/DS3 WAN
interfaces
Cryptography Accelerators
Broadcom Bluesteelnet uBsec 5501, 5601, 5805, 5820
Hifn 7751-based boards, including:
GTGI PowerCrypt Encryption Accelerator
NetSec 7751
Hifn reference board
Invertex AEON
PC Cards (PCMCIA and Carbus)
ATA cards, including:
ATA/IDE card drives
ATA/IDE CD-ROM adapters
CF/ATA flash cards and disk drives
Ethernet adapters, including:
3Com EtherLink and EtherLink XL-based LAN PC
cards, including:
3Com 3c556, 3c562
3Com 3c574TX, 3c[CX]FE574BT
3Com 3c589, 3c589[BCDE]
3Com 3c575TX, 3c[CX]FE575[BC]T CardBus
3Com 3c[CX]FEM656, 3c[CX]FEM656[BC] CardBus
Intel/DEC 21443 "Tulip" clones, including:
ADMtex AN985 Centaur-C CardBus
IBM EtherJet 10/100 CardBus
SMC EZ CardBus 10/100
Xircom X3201 CardBus adapters, including
RealPort models
Intel i8255x-based, including:
Intel PRO/100 CardBus II
NE2000-based, including:
Accton EN2216
AmbiCom AMB8002T
D-Link DE-650, DE-660
Genius ME 3000II SE
Hawking PN650TX
IC-Card
Kingston KNE-PC2
Linksys PCMPC100, EC2T Combo
NDC Instant-Link
Netgear FA410TX
Network Everywhere NP10T
New Media LiveWire 10/100
SMC 91Cxx-based, including:
Megahertz XJEM1144, CC10BT
SMC EtherEZ 8020BT
Xircom, including:
Xircom CreditCard CE2
PCMCIA controllers, including:
Intel i82365 and compatibles
SCSI host adapters, including:
Adaptec SlimSCSI APA-14[56]0
Serial ports, including:
Most modems, digital cellular modems, and serial
cards should work
Wireless Ethernet adapters:
See above
Universal Serial Bus (USB) Devices
USB Audio
USB Diamond Multimedia Rio MP3 players
USB Ethernet adapters, see above
USB Generic Human Interface Devices (catch-all)
USB Handspring Visor
USB Hubs
USB Keyboards
USB Mass Storage devices, i.e., USB floppy drives and
USB memory stick controllers
USB Mice
USB Modems
USB Printers
USB Scanners
USB-USB cables
USB Y@p phone
Pointing Devices
"Logitech"-style bus mice [*] [+]
"Microsoft"-style bus mice [*] [+]
"PS/2"-style mice [*] [+]
Serial mice (uses serial port driver)
compatible) tape drives [*] [+]
Sound Devices
C-Media CMI8[37]38 [*] [+]
Cirrus Logic CrystalClear CS4280, CS4281 [*] [+]
Ensoniq AudioPCI [*] [+]
ESS Tech ES188[78], ES888 [*] [+]
ESS Solo-1 PCI AudioDrive [*] [+]
ESS Maestro 1, 2 and 2E and clones, NOT Maestro 3 [*] [+]
Forte Media FM801 audio [*] [+]
Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+]
Intel i810/i820 and 440MX AC'97 [*] [+]
NeoMagic 256AV/ZX [*] [+]
SoundBlaster ISA cards and 100% compatibles [*] [+]
SoundBlaster PCI128 [*] [+]
SoundBlaster Live! and PCI512 (EMU10k1) [*] [+]
Trident 4DWAVE-DX/NX and clones (SiS 7018, ALi M5451) [*] [+]
VIA VT82C686A SouthBridge integrated AC'97 audio [*] [+]
Yamaha OPL3-SA3 [*] [+]
Yamaha DS-XG [*] [+]
[The following drivers are not extensively tested:]
Personal Sound System [*] [+]
ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+]
S3 SonicVibes [*] [+]
Windows Sound System [*] [+]
Miscellaneous Devices
APM power management,
Brooktree 8[47][89] based frame grabber and TV tuner cards,
including: [*] [+]
Hauppage Wincast TV
STB TV PCI Television Tuner
Miro PC TV
Intel Smart Video Recorder III
IMS TV Turbo
AVer Media TV/FM
Many kinds of ISA Plug-and-Play cards
Nearly all SB-style audio cards
Nearly all joystick ports
Nearly all Yamaha-style audio cards
Nearly all NE2000-style Ethernet cards
Nearly all SMC-style Ethernet cards
Most serial port or modem cards
3c509 cards in PnP mode
NE2100 Ethernet cards
Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT included on the
distribution floppies. Except as noted above, all other drivers are
present on install floppy. Also, at the present time, the
distributed kernels support only one SCSI host adapter per machine.
OpenBSD normally allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you
can use all of them by compiling a custom kernel once OpenBSD is
installed.
Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
although it is not in the kernel on the installation floppy.
Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
about:
The "Micro Channel" MCA bus used in many IBM PS/2 models
NCR 5380-based and 53400-based SCSI host adapters
QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives (these are the tape drives
that connect to the floppy disk controller)
Multiprocessor motherboards (though they will run fine using
one processor only)
Sony and Panasonic proprietary CD-ROM interfaces
Parallel-port ZIP drives (SCSI and ATAPI ZIP drives work fine)
Intel i82556 (EtherExpress PRO/100A) and i82596 (EtherExpress
PRO/10 PCI) Ethernet adapters
Hewlett-Packard PC-LAN+ (HP27xxx) Ethernet adapters
Aureal Vortex sound cards
Winmodems
Infrared devices, such as commonly found on laptops
Firewire
Mylex and Intel RAID controllers
PCMCIA:
Memory cards
Most multifunction cards
We are planning future support for many of these devices.
To be detected by the distributed kernels, some devices must
be configured with specific settings. Here's their list:
Device Name Port IRQ DRQ Misc
------ ---- ---- --- --- ----
Serial ports pccom0 0x3f8 4 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
pccom1 0x2f8 3 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
pccom2 0x3e8 5 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
ast0 0x1a0 5 [AST 4-port serial card]
cy0 12 iomem 0xd4000 [Cyclom
serial card]
Parallel ports lpt0 0x378 7 [interrupt-driven or polling]
lpt1 0x278 [polling only]
lpt2 0x3bc [polling only]
MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
wdc0 0x1f0 14 [supports two disks or atapi]
wdc1 0x170 15 [supports two disks or atapi]
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
BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
bha0 0x330 any any
bha1 0x334 any any
Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
uha0 0x330 any any
uha1 0x334 any any
AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
aic0 0x340 11 any
Seagate ST0[12], Future Domain TMC-8xx based SCSI controllers
sea0 5 iomem 0xc8000
WD7000 and TMC-7000 SCSI host adapters
wds0 0x350 15 6
wds1 0x358 11 5
SCSI disks sd0 first SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
sd1 second SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
sd2 third SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
sd3 fourth SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
SCSI tapes st0 first SCSI tape (by SCSI id)
st1 second SCSI tape (by SCSI id)
SCSI CD-ROMs cd0 first SCSI CD-ROM (by SCSI id)
cd1 second SCSI CD-ROM (by SCSI id)
SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards
we0 0x280 9 iomem 0xd0000
we1 0x300 10 iomem 0xcc000
Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
ne0 0x240 9 iomem 0xd8000
ne1 0x300 10
ne2 0x280 9
3COM 3c501 Ethernet boards
el0 0x300 9
3COM 3c503 Ethernet boards
ec0 0x250 9 iomem 0xd8000
3COM 3c505/Etherlink+ Ethernet boards
eg0 0x310 5
AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, or 3COM 3c507 Ethernet boards
ie0 0x360 7 iomem 0xd0000
EtherExpress boards
ie1 0x300 10
IsoLan, NE2100, and DEPCA
le0 0x360 15 6
Intel EtherExpress PRO/10
ex0 0x320 5
PCI ethernet boards need to have an interrupt, either assigned in your
PCI BIOS, or autoconfigured.
Hardware not listed in the above table doesn't need any specific
configuration.
Special care for SMC Elite Ultra:
The Elite Ultra is very sensitive to how its I/O port is treated.
Mistreating it can cause a number of effects -- everything from
the card not responding when the kernel probes, or the soft
configuration being corrupted or wiped completely.
By default, the kernel ships with device we1 configured for the
'default' Elite Ultra locations, comprising of port 0x300, irq 10,
and memory location 0xcc000. This matches a hard coded jumper on
the board as well a common soft config setting.
Unfortunately, the kernel's autoconfiguration process (specifically,
some of the devices it probes for) cause conflicts with the SMC
Elite Ultra, and very often cause it to lose its configuration and
fail its own probe. If this happens, you must boot the computer
into DOS, and run the EzSetup program from SMC (if you do not have
a copy on the floppy accompanying your board, you can download it
from ftp://ftp.darmstadt.gmd.de/pub/pc/hardware/nic/smc/gez122.exe -
it is not available from SMC anymore). This program will allow you
to reconfigure and recover a card that has lost its configuration
with a minimum of hassle.
In order to avoid blowing away the card, one *must* use the
run-time kernel configuration system when booting the Install
kernel. This is done by giving the -c flag to the initial boot
request. Following the loading of the kernel, the user is
presented with a
UKC>
prompt. At this prompt, a variety of commands may be issued, but
the relevant one to getting the SMC Elite Ultra running is
'disable'. The wt0, el0, and ie1 devices all need to be disabled.
This is done by typing 'disable' followed by the name of the
device, i.e., 'disable wt0', and pressing return.
If, for some reason, your Elite Ultra is not configured at the
'default' location the kernel is expecting it, you may also use
the 'change' command in the UKC system to modify where the kernel
will look for it. Typing 'change we1' will allow you to modify
those settings. Note that running the card at an i/o port of
anything other then 0x300 at this point is not recommended, and is
beyond the scope of this document-- by doing so you risk other
device probes wreaking the havoc we are trying to avoid.
When all three extra devices are disabled and any changes made,
the 'quit' command will exit the UKC. The kernel should then
boot, and find your Elite Ultra on device we1.
Special care for PCI BIOS:
As all BIOS implementations and subsystems this one has bugs too.
Sometimes specifications are unclear about interfaces and/or data
validation.
These all cause our driver for PCI BIOS to misbehave in more or
less fatal ways, such as panics on pcibios0 configuration or pci
device attachments, or unconfigured pci devices due to irq and/or
I/O address misconfiguration.
Fast workaround
Boot by giving the -c flag to the initial boot request.
Following the loading of the kernel, the user is presented with a
UKC>
Then type the following commands:
UKC> change bios0
165 bios0 at mainbus0 bus -1 flags 0x0
change [n] y
bus [-1] ? <enter>
flags [0] ? 3
165 bios0 changed
165 bios0 at mainbus0 bus -1 flags 0x3
UKC> quit
This will disable the pcibios0 attachment.
Sometimes, especially when hangs occur on particular pci device
attachments, moving pci cards into a different slot helps.
Fixing for good
Try to gather dmesg output from the failing configuration, for
example by using serial console (see boot(8)) and send it to
mickey@openbsd.org along with descriptions of your hardware setup.
Alternatively, dig in the code and fix problems.
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