Latest Stable FreeBSD release and is it supported on dell 2950

Tom Judge tom at tomjudge.com
Wed Jan 23 08:34:26 PST 2008


Vivek Khera wrote:
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> On Jan 23, 2008, at 12:30 AM, navneet Upadhyay wrote:
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>> 6. Which platform/machine which BSD supports. Is Dell 2950 ok
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> I've only ever had one compatibility issue with a Dell, and that was 
> easily fixed by teaching the bge ethernet driver the name of the chipset 
> used on that particular box.  I have a PE1900 here we just got and it 
> runs 7.0-RC1 quite nicely.
> 
> In general, unless you're running some obscure devices, FreeBSD works 
> just fine with most systems.


PE2950's use the bce driver, which works fine with 6.3+

Tom J


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