i give up

[Freddie Cash]

On 11/30/08, Tim Kientzle <kientzle at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>I have some ideas on that. The problem is it's sometimes hard to check
>>>>that given hardware is supported by FreeBSD, even in case you know and
>>>>want to do it. The list of supported hardware is often written in terms
>>>>of chipsets and manufacturers often produce cards using supported chips,
>>>>but named after their own trademark.
>
> I wonder if there's some way to partially automate
> collecting some of this information.
>
> Something like a "register" program people can
> use to register their FreeBSD installation that
> would optionally include hardware information.
> (Get a list of hardware IDs and running drivers
> from the kernel, then prompt the user to enter
> the actual hardware manufacturer/brand name for
> each one.)

Look for bsdstats in the ports tree, which does all of the above.

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