supported hardware

[Eric Anderson]

Christoph Devenoges wrote:

>++ Bruce A. Mah wrote on Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:56:32AM -0800 :
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>>I (with the help of several other folks) have been trying to move
>>instances of specific devices out of the hardware list (where it
>>largely duplicates the content in manual pages) into the manual pages.
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>its nice to have a single list of supported hardware, i always use't to
>print this out and take it along shopping. 
>
>googling for "freebsd supported hardware list" doesent really give
>anything usefull,
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>linux has stuff like http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 ...
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>not that i would have anything to do with an os like that though.
>
>might it be possible to create the compleate list from the individual
>man pages? does anybody see a need for a freebsd version of the
>mandrake example?
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>
This was mentioned in the past, and I started work on something 
similar.. Although I haven't had a whole bunch of time to devote to it 
yet, I have at least begun.  I could use some help entering devices into 
a db once I'm finished though - any takers?

Eric



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Eric Anderson	   Systems Administrator      Centaur Technology
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