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| <!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/releases/3.3R/notes.sgml,v 1.1 1999/09/17 12:34:27 jkh Exp $">
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| <!ENTITY title "FreeBSD 3.3 Release Notes">
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| <pre>
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| 
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|                                  RELEASE NOTES
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|                               FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE
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| 
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| Welcome to 3.3-RELEASE, a full follow-on to 3.2-RELEASE released
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| May 1999.  In the months since 3.2 was released, many bug fixes and
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| general enhancements have been made to the system.  Please see relevant
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| details below.
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| 
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| Any installation failures or crashes should be reported by using the
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| send-pr command (those preferring a WEB based interface can also see
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| <A href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/send-pr.html">this page</A>).
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| 
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| For information about FreeBSD and the layout of the 3.3-RELEASE
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| directory (especially if you're installing from floppies!), see
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| ABOUT.TXT.  For installation instructions, see the INSTALL.TXT and
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| HARDWARE.TXT files.
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| 
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| Table of contents:
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| ------------------
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| 1. What's new since 3.2-RELEASE
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|    1.1 KERNEL CHANGES
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|    1.2 SECURITY FIXES
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|    1.3 USERLAND CHANGES
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| 
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| 2. Supported Configurations
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|    2.1 Disk Controllers
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|    2.2 Ethernet cards
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|    2.3 ATM
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|    2.4 Misc
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| 
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| 3. Obtaining FreeBSD
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|    3.1 FTP/Mail
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|    3.3 CDROM
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| 
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| 4. Upgrading from previous releases of FreeBSD
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| 
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| 5. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code
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| 6. Acknowledgements
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| 
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| 
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| 1. What's new since 3.2-RELEASE
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| ---------------------------------
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| 
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| 1.1. KERNEL CHANGES
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| -------------------
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| The Berkeley Packet Filter (bpf) is enabled by default.  This is to allow
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| DHCP supported installs.
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| 
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| Linux mode has undergone significant bug fixes and improvements.
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| 
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| The i386 bootstrap has been enhanced for some problematic systems.
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| 
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| Driver support has been added for IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA wireless network
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| adapters based on the Lucent Hermes chipset, including the Lucent
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| WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 and the Cabletron RoamAbout.  Both 2Mbps and
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| 6Mbps Turbo adapters are supported. [MERGED]
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| 
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| Driver support has been added for PCI fast Ethernet cards based
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| on the ADMtek Inc. AL981 Comet chipset.
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| 
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| Driver support has been added for PCI fast Ethernet cards based
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| on the LC82C115 'PNIC II' chipset.
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| 
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| Driver support has been added for SysKonnect SK-984x PCI gigabit
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| Ethernet adapters.
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| 
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| Driver support has been added for Adaptec Duralink PCI Ethernet adapters
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| based on the Adaptec AIC-6915 fast Ethernet controller.
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| 
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| Driver support for M-systems DiskOnChip products integrated.
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| 
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| Driver support has been added for the 3Com 3c905C-TX.
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| 
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| Driver support has been added for the 3Com 3x574-TX 16-bit FastEtherlink
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| PC-card support.
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| 
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| Driver support has been added for the Compaq Smart Raid family of
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| RAID controllers.
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| 
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| Driver support for a number of Realtek and Avance Asound audio cards
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| has been added.
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| 
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| USB support has been improved.
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| 
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| Major updates to the Vinum volume manager have been incorporated.
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| [Though the new RAID-5 features should still be considered
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| experimental since they are, well, new].
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| 
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| A number of NFS problems have been fixed.
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| 
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| APM support has been improved.  A kernel panic problem with an
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| older APM BIOSes has been fixed.  Also, the suspend/standby
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| transition is more robust.
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| 
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| User- and group-based IPFW firewalling has been added.
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| 
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| Support for probabilistic rule matching has been added to IPFW.
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| 
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| IPFW logging is now dynamic. IPFW logging counts can be reset, and any
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| given rule can be given an arbitrary logging limit.
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| 
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| 
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| 1.2. SECURITY FIXES
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| -------------------
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| A problem with file systems flags has been corrected.
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| 
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| A problem with profil(2) remaining inactive after an exec call.
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| 
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| A remotely exploitable root hole in amd (the automount daemon) has been
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| fixed.
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| 
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| The wu-ftpd port has been updated with the latest patches to prevent
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| possible remote root exploits.
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| 
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| The proftpd port has been updated with the latest patches to prevent
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| possible remote root exploits.
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| 
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| The samba port has been updated with the latest patches to prevent
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| possible remote root exploits.
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| 
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| The inn port has been updated to a new version that corrects some buffer
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| overflows.
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| 
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| Since FreeBSD 3.0 RELEASE, many minor problems with the network stack
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| have been corrected which could have been exploited for denial of
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| service attacks.
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| 
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| 
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| 1.3. USERLAND CHANGES
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| ---------------------
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| The support environment for Linux mode has finally been updated. The
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| linux_lib and linux_devel ports are replaced by resp. linux_base and
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| linux_devtools. These new ports are based on Red Hat 5.2 packages
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| and include support for both glibc2 and libc5 based applications.
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| 
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| Sysinstall now contains DHCP client support.
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| 
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| TCP Wrapper support in inetd(8) is now controlled with command-line
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| options and data-gram (UDP) services may be wrapped in addition to previously
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| wrapped service types. Please see the manpage for details, since inetd
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| run without command-line options will do no wrapping.
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| 
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| ISC's DHCP client has been upgraded to version 2.0.
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| 
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| Bison, the GNU parser generator, has been upgraded to version 1.28.
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| 
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| The Advanced Power Management monitor daemon, apmd(8), has been added.
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| This allows the user to select the APM events to be handled from
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| userland and specify the commands for a given event.  This allows the
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| APM behavior to be configured in a flexable manner.  Please see the
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| manpage for details.
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| 
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| 
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| 2. Supported Configurations
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| ---------------------------
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| FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus
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| based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the
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| 386sx is not recommended).  Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive
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| configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is
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| also provided.
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| 
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| What follows is a list of all peripherals currently known to work with
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| FreeBSD.  Other configurations may also work, we have simply not as yet
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| received confirmation of this.
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| 
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| 
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| 2.1. Disk Controllers
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| ---------------------
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| WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
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| WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
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| IDE
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| ATA
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| 
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| Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers
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| Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
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| Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
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| Adaptec 274X/284X/2920C/294x/2950/3940/3950 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series
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| EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI controllers.
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| Adaptec AIC7850, AIC7860, AIC7880, AIC789x, on-board SCSI controllers.
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| 
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| AdvanSys SCSI controllers (all models).
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| 
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| BusLogic MultiMaster controllers:
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| 
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| [ Please note that BusLogic/Mylex "Flashpoint" adapters are NOT yet supported ]
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| 
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| BusLogic MultiMaster "W" Series Host Adapters:
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|     BT-948, BT-958, BT-958D
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| BusLogic MultiMaster "C" Series Host Adapters:
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|     BT-946C, BT-956C, BT-956CD, BT-445C, BT-747C, BT-757C, BT-757CD, BT-545C,
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|     BT-540CF
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| BusLogic MultiMaster "S" Series Host Adapters:
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|     BT-445S, BT-747S, BT-747D, BT-757S, BT-757D, BT-545S, BT-542D, BT-742A,
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|     BT-542B
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| BusLogic MultiMaster "A" Series Host Adapters:
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|     BT-742A, BT-542B
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| 
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| AMI FastDisk controllers that are true BusLogic MultiMaster clones are also
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| supported.
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| 
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| DPT SmartCACHE Plus, SmartCACHE III, SmartRAID III, SmartCACHE IV and
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| SmartRAID IV SCSI/RAID controllers are supported.  The DPT SmartRAID/CACHE V
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| is not yet supported.
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| 
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| SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C810a, 53C815, 53C820, 53C825a,
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| 53C860, 53C875, 53C875j, 53C885, 53C895 and 53C896 PCI SCSI controllers:
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|         ASUS SC-200
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|         Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants)
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|         Diamond FirePort (all)
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|         NCR cards (all)
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|         Symbios cards (all)
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|         Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F
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|         Tyan S1365
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| 
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| 
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| QLogic 1020, 1040, 1040B, 1080 and 1240 SCSI Host Adapters.
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| QLogic 2100 Fibre Channel Adapters (private loop only).
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| 
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| DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.
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| 
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| With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for
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| SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including hard disks, optical disks,
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| tape drives (including DAT and 8mm Exabyte), medium changers, processor
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| target devices and CDROM drives.  WORM devices that support CDROM commands
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| are supported for read-only access by the CDROM driver.  WORM/CD-R/CD-RW
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| writing support is provided by cdrecord, which is in the ports tree.
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| 
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| The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:
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| (cd)    SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and
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|         SoundBlaster SCSI)
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| (matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary
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|         interface (562/563 models)
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| (scd)   Sony proprietary interface (all models)
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| (wcd)   ATAPI IDE interface
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| 
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| The following drivers were supported under the old SCSI subsystem, but are
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| NOT YET supported under the new CAM SCSI subsystem:
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| 
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|   Tekram DC390 and DC390T controllers (maybe other cards based on the
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|   AMD 53c974 as well).
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| 
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|   NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller. 
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| 
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|   UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers.
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| 
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|   Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers.
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| 
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|   Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers.
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| 
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|   WD7000 SCSI controller.
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| 
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|   Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices)
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|   Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers
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|   Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x
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|   and SoundBlaster SCSI cards.
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| 
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|   [ Note:  There is work-in-progress to port the AIC-6260/6360 and
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|     UltraStor drivers to the new CAM SCSI framework, but no estimates on
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|     when or if they will be completed. ]
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| 
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| Unmaintained drivers, they might or might not work for your hardware:
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| 
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|   Floppy tape interface (Colorado/Mountain/Insight)
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| 
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|   (mcd)   Mitsumi proprietary CD-ROM interface (all models)
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| 
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| 2.2. Ethernet cards
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| -------------------
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| 
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| Adaptec Duralink PCI fast Ethernet adapters based on the Adaptec
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| AIC-6915 fast Ethernet controller chip, including the following:
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|   ANA-62011 64-bit single port 10/100-BaseTX adapter
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|   ANA-62022 64-bit dual port 10/100-BaseTX adapter
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|   ANA-62044 64-bit quad port 10/100-BaseTX adapter
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|   ANA-69011 32-bit single port 10/100-BaseTX adapter
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|   ANA-62020 64-bit single port 100-BaseFX adapter
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| 
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| Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards
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| 
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| Alteon Networks PCI gigabit Ethernet NICs based on the Tigon 1 and Tigon 2
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| chipsets, including the following:
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|   Alteon AceNIC (Tigon 1 and 2)
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|   3Com 3c985-SX (Tigon 1 and 2)
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|   Netgear GA620 (Tigon 2)
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|   Silicon Graphics Gigabit Ethernet
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|   DEC/Compaq EtherWORKS 1000
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|   NEC Gigabit Ethernet
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| 
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| AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974)
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| 
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| SMC Elite 16 WD8013 Ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E,
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| WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT
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| based clones.  SMC Elite Ultra.  SMC Etherpower II.
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| 
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| RealTek 8129/8139 fast Ethernet NICs including the following:
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|   Allied Telesyn AT2550
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|   Allied Telesyn AT2500TX
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|   Genius GF100TXR (RTL8139)
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|   NDC Communications NE100TX-E
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|   OvisLink LEF-8129TX
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|   OvisLink LEF-8139TX
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|   Netronix Inc. EA-1210 NetEther 10/100
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|   KTX-9130TX 10/100 Fast Ethernet
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|   Accton "Cheetah" EN1027D (MPX 5030/5038; RealTek 8139 clone?)
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|   SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI 1211-TX
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| 
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| Lite-On 82c168/82c169 PNIC fast Ethernet NICs including the following:
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|   LinkSys EtherFast LNE100TX
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|   NetGear FA310-TX Rev. D1
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|   Matrox FastNIC 10/100
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|   Kingston KNE110TX
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| 
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| Macronix 98713, 98713A, 98715, 98715A and 98725 fast Ethernet NICs
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|   NDC Communications SFA100A (98713A)
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|   CNet Pro120A (98713 or 98713A)
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|   CNet Pro120B (98715)
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|   SVEC PN102TX (98713)
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| 
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| Macronix/Lite-On PNIC II LC82C115 fast Ethernet NICs including the following:
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|   LinkSys EtherFast LNE100TX Version 2
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| 
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| Winbond W89C840F fast Ethernet NICs including the following:
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|   Trendware TE100-PCIE
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| 
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| VIA Technologies VT3043 "Rhine I" and VT86C100A "Rhine II" fast Ethernet
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| NICs including the following:
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|   Hawking Technologies PN102TX
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|   D-Link DFE530TX
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| 
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| SysKonnect SK-984x PCI gigabit Ethernet cards including the following:
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|   SK-9841 1000baseLX single mode fiber, single port
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|   SK-9842 1000baseSX multi-mode fiber, single port
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|   SK-9843 1000baseLX single mode fiber, dual port
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|   SK-9844 1000baseSX multi-mode fiber, dual port
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|   
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| Texas Instruments ThunderLAN PCI NICs, including the following:
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|   Compaq Netelligent 10, 10/100, 10/100 Proliant, 10/100 Dual-Port
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|   Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX Embedded UTP, 10 T PCI UTP/Coax, 10/100 TX UTP
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|   Compaq NetFlex 3P, 3P Integrated, 3P w/ BNC
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|   Olicom OC-2135/2138, OC-2325, OC-2326 10/100 TX UTP
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|   Racore 8165 10/100-BaseTX
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|   Racore 8148 10-BaseT/100-BaseTX/100-BaseFX multi-personality
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| 
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| ADMtek Inc. AL981-based PCI fast Ethernet NICs
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| 
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| ASIX Electronics AX88140A PCI NICs, including the following:
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|   Alfa Inc. GFC2204
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|   CNet Pro110B
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| 
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| DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205)
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| DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422)
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| DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc)
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| DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs
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| 
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| Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A
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| 
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| HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A).
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| 
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| Intel EtherExpress 16
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| Intel EtherExpress Pro/10
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| Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet
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| 
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| Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit)
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| Isolink 4110     (8 bit)
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| 
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| Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 Ethernet interface.
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| 
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| PCI network cards emulating the NE2000: RealTek 8029, NetVin 5000,
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| Winbond W89C940, Surecom NE-34, VIA VT86C926.
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| 
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| 3Com 3C501 cards
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| 
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| 3Com 3C503 Etherlink II
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| 
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| 3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+
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| 
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| 3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP
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| 
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| 3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905/905B/905C PCI
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| and EISA (Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL
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| 
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| 3Com 3c980/3c980B Fast Etherlink XL server adapter
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| 
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| 3Com 3cSOHO100-TX OfficeConnect adapter
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| 
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| Toshiba Ethernet cards
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| 
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| Crystal Semiconductor CS89x0-based NICs, including:
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|   IBM Etherjet ISA
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| 
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| PCMCIA Etherjet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also
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| supported.
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| 
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| Note that NO token ring cards are supported at this time as we're
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| still waiting for someone to donate a driver for one of them.  Any
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| takers?
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| 
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| 2.3 ATM
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| -------
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| 
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|    o ATM Host Interfaces
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|         - FORE Systems, Inc. PCA-200E ATM PCI Adapters
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|         - Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM PCI Adapters
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| 
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|    o ATM Signaling Protocols
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|         - The ATM Forum UNI 3.1 signaling protocol
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|         - The ATM Forum UNI 3.0 signaling protocol
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|         - The ATM Forum ILMI address registration
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|         - FORE Systems's proprietary SPANS signaling protocol
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|         - Permanent Virtual Channels (PVCs)
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| 
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|    o IETF "Classical IP and ARP over ATM" model
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|         - RFC 1483, "Multi-protocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5"
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|         - RFC 1577, "Classical IP and ARP over ATM"
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|         - RFC 1626, "Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5"
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|         - RFC 1755, "ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM"
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|         - RFC 2225, "Classical IP and ARP over ATM"
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|         - RFC 2334, "Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP)"
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|         - Internet Draft draft-ietf-ion-scsp-atmarp-00.txt,
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|                 "A Distributed ATMARP Service Using SCSP"
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| 
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|    o ATM Sockets interface
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| 
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| 2.4. Misc
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| ---------
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| 
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| AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ.
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| 
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| ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ.
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| ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial.
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| 
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| Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
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| Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported)
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| Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
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| Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported)
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| 
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| Comtrol Rocketport card.
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| 
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| Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board.
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| 
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| STB 4 port card using shared IRQ.
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| 
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| SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board.
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| SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards.
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| 
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| Stallion multi-port serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64,
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| ONboard 4/16 and Brumby.
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| 
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| Specialix SI/XIO/SX ISA, EISA and PCI serial expansion cards/modules.
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| 
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| Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound
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| and Roland MPU-401 sound cards. (snd driver)
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| 
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| Most ISA audio codecs manufactured by Crystal Semiconductors, OPTi, Creative
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| Labs, Avance, Yamaha and ENSONIQ. (pcm driver)
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| 
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| Connectix QuickCam
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| Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber
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| Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber
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| Cortex1 frame grabber
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| Hauppauge Wincast/TV boards (PCI)
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| STB TV PCI
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| Intel Smart Video Recorder III
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| Various Frame grabbers based on Brooktree Bt848 / Bt878 chip.
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| 
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| HP4020, HP6020, Philips CDD2000/CDD2660 and Plasmon CD-R drives.
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| 
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| PS/2 mice
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| 
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| Standard PC Joystick
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| 
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| X-10 power controllers
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| 
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| GPIB and Transputer drivers.
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| 
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| Genius and Mustek hand scanners.
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| 
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| Xilinx XC6200 based reconfigurable hardware cards compatible with
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| the HOT1 from Virtual Computers (www.vcc.com)
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| 
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| Support for Dave Mills experimental Loran-C receiver.
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| 
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| Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA and ISA standard speed
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| (2Mbps) and turbo speed (6Mbps) wireless network adapters and work-a-likes
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| (NCR WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11, Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS). Note: the
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| ISA versions of these adapters are actually PCMCIA cards combined with
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| an ISA to PCMCIA bridge card, so both kinds of devices work with
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| the same driver.
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| 
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| FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus.
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| 
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| 3. Obtaining FreeBSD
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| --------------------
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| 
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| You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways:
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| 
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| 3.1. FTP/Mail
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| -------------
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| 
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| You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from
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| `ftp.FreeBSD.org' - the official FreeBSD release site.
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| 
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| For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file
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| MIRROR.SITES.  Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in
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| networking terms) to you.  Additional mirror sites are always welcome!
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| Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to 
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| become an official mirror site.
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| 
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| If you do not have access to the Internet and electronic mail is your
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| only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to
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| `ftpmail@ftpmail.vix.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message
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| to get more information on how to fetch files using this mechanism.
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| Please do note, however, that this will end up sending many *tens of
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| megabytes* through the mail and should only be employed as an absolute
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| LAST resort!
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| 
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| 
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| 3.2. CDROM
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| ----------
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| 
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| FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from:
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| 
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|         Walnut Creek CDROM
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|         4041 Pike Lane, Suite F
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|         Concord CA  94520
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|         1-800-786-9907, +1-925-674-0783, +1-925-674-0821 (FAX)
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| 
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| Or via the Internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com.
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| Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp from:
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| 
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|         ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog
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| 
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| Cost per -RELEASE CD is $39.95 or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription.
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| FreeBSD SNAPshot CDs, when available, are $39.95 or $14.95 with a
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| FreeBSD-SNAP subscription (-RELEASE and -SNAP subscriptions are entirely
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| separate).  With a subscription, you will automatically receive updates as
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| they are released.  Your credit card will be billed when each disk is
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| shipped and you may cancel your subscription at any time without further
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| obligation.
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| 
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| Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or Mexico
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| and $9.00 overseas.  They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American
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| Express or checks in U.S. Dollars and ship COD within the United
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| States.  California residents please add 8.25% sales tax.
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| 
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| Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an
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| unconditional return policy.
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| 
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| 
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| 4. Upgrading from previous releases of FreeBSD
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| ----------------------------------------------
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| 
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| If you're upgrading from a previous release of FreeBSD, most likely
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| it's 2.2.x or 2.1.x (in some lesser number of cases) and some of the
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| following issues may affect you, depending of course on your chosen
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| method of upgrading.  There are two popular ways of upgrading
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| FreeBSD distributions:
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| 
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|         o Using sources, via /usr/src
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|         o Using sysinstall's (binary) upgrade option.
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| 
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| In the case of using sources, there are simply two targets you need to
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| be aware of: The standard ``upgrade'' target, which will upgrade a 2.x
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| or 3.0 system to 3.3 and the ``world'' target, which will take an
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| already upgraded system and keep it in sync with whatever changes have
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| happened since the initial upgrade.
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| 
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| In the case of using the binary upgrade option, the system will go
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| straight to 3.3/ELF but also populate the /<basepath>/lib/aout
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| directories for backwards compatibility with older binaries.
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| 
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| In either case, going to ELF will mean that you'll have somewhat
 | |
| smaller binaries and access to a lot more compiler goodies which have
 | |
| been already been ported to other ELF environments (our older and
 | |
| somewhat crufty a.out format being largely unsupported by most other
 | |
| software projects).  Those who wish to retain access to the older
 | |
| a.out dynamic executables should be sure and install the compat22
 | |
| distribution. Notice that the a.out libraries won't be accessible
 | |
| until the system is rebooted, which may cause trouble with certain
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| a.out packages.
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| 
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| Also, do not use install disks or sysinstall from previous versions,
 | |
| as version 3.1 introduced a new bootstrapping procedure, requiring
 | |
| new boot blocks to be installed (because of elf kernels), and version
 | |
| 3.2 has further modifications to the bootstrapping procedure.
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| 
 | |
| [ other important upgrading notes should go here]
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| 
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| 
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| 5. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code.
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| -----------------------------------------------------------
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| Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always
 | |
| valued - please do not hesitate to report any problems you may find
 | |
| (preferably with a fix attached, if you can!).
 | |
| 
 | |
| The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine with
 | |
| Internet mail connectivity is to use the send-pr command or use the CGI
 | |
| script at http://www.FreeBSD.org/send-pr.html.  Bug reports
 | |
| will be dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can
 | |
| be sure that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon
 | |
| as possible.  Bugs filed in this way are also visible on our WEB site
 | |
| in the support section and are therefore valuable both as bug reports
 | |
| and as "signposts" for other users concerning potential problems to
 | |
| watch out for.
 | |
| 
 | |
| If, for some reason, you are unable to use the send-pr command to
 | |
| submit a bug report, you can try to send it to:
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| 
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|                 freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
 | |
| 
 | |
| Note that send-pr itself is a shell script that should be easy to move
 | |
| even onto a totally different system.  We much prefer if you could use
 | |
| this interface, since it make it easier to keep track of the problem
 | |
| reports.  However, before submitting, please try to make sure whether
 | |
| the problem might have already been fixed since.
 | |
| 
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| 
 | |
| Otherwise, for any questions or tech support issues, please send mail to:
 | |
| 
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|                 freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have
 | |
| extra hands willing to help - there are already far more desired
 | |
| enhancements than we'll ever be able to manage by ourselves!  To
 | |
| contact us on technical matters, or with offers of help, please send
 | |
| mail to:
 | |
| 
 | |
|                 freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Please note that these mailing lists can experience *significant*
 | |
| amounts of traffic and if you have slow or expensive mail access and
 | |
| are only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you
 | |
| may find it preferable to subscribe instead to:
 | |
| 
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|                 freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| All of the mailing lists can be freely joined by anyone wishing
 | |
| to do so.  Send mail to MajorDomo@FreeBSD.org and include the keyword
 | |
| `help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message.  This
 | |
| will give you more information on joining the various lists, accessing
 | |
| archives, etc.  There are a number of mailing lists targeted at
 | |
| special interest groups not mentioned here, so send mail to majordomo
 | |
| and ask about them!
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| 6. Acknowledgments
 | |
| -------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not
 | |
| hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very
 | |
| hard to bring you this release.  For a complete list of FreeBSD
 | |
| project staffers, please see:
 | |
| 
 | |
|         http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/staff.html
 | |
| 
 | |
| or, if you've loaded the doc distribution:
 | |
| 
 | |
|         file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/staff.html
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Special mention to:
 | |
| 
 | |
|         The donors listed at http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/donors.html
 | |
| 
 | |
|         And to the many thousands of FreeBSD users and testers all over the
 | |
|         world, without whom this release simply would not have been possible.
 | |
| 
 | |
| We sincerely hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD!
 | |
| 
 | |
|                         The FreeBSD Project
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| 
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