Hardware supported?

[Paul van der Linden]

I was mostly talking about the raid controller, the Intel ICH7 is 
mentioned on the hardware list:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE
But they only mention ICH7 which is without raid. Does this mean the 
raid functionality isn't supported, or the complete ICH7 is 
supported(ICH7, ICH7R, enz)?

Fluffles wrote:
 > Paul van der Linden wrote:
 >> Hi,
 >> I wanted to buy this motherboard:
 >> 
http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1423&l1=9&l2=39&l3=352
 >>
 >> But I'm not sure if the devices are fully supported by freebsd?
 >> I want to be able to install freebsd through network via Broadcom
 >> BCM5721 lan device onboard,
 >> and want to install it on a SATA RAID 1 configuration with the
 >> controller (Intel ICH7R or, if that doesn't work, the LSI MegaRAID).
 >> As far as I understand for text displaying, an OS doesn't even need a
 >> driver to use a VGA adapter?
 >> And ofcourse I need to be able to use the USB ports for a keyboard and
 >> mouse for installation.
 >>
 >> Does anyone know if this is completly possible with freebsd 6.2, I
 >> found the hardware list, but on some parts I'm not fully sure.
 >
 > Hm did you check if your motherboard is on the following list:
 > http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html
 >
 > It's not a complete list but might be very useful. Also you can search
 > for your motherboard and "dmesg" to maybe catch some dmesg output to see
 > if devices are supported.
 >
 > - Veronica