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FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE is now available from ftp.freebsd.org]
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It is my great pleasure to announce the release of FreeBSD 2.2, the
long-awaited first release of our 2.2 branch technology following
lengthy ALPHA, BETA and GAMMA testing cycles.
FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE is now available on ftp.freebsd.org and various
FTP mirror sites throughout the world. It can also be ordered on CD
from Walnut Creek CDROM, from where it will be shipping shortly.
FreeBSD 2.2 represents a rather large leap in functionality from the
2.1.x releases, everyone being is strongly encouraged to read the
release notes below for a list of new features.
The official sources for FreeBSD are available via anonymous FTP from:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
Or via the WEB at:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html
And on CD-ROM from Walnut Creek CDROM:
Walnut Creek CDROM
4041 Pike Lane, #D
Concord CA, 94520 USA
Phone: +1 510 674-0783
Fax: +1 510 674-0821
Tech Support: +1 510 603-1234
Email: info@cdrom.com
WWW: http://www.cdrom.com/
Additionally, FreeBSD is available via anonymous FTP from the
following mirror sites. If you choose to obtain FreeBSD via FTP,
please try to use the site nearest you:
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Japan
In case of problems, please contact the hostmaster for this domain.
ftp://ftp.jp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
ftp://ftp2.jp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
ftp://ftp3.jp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
ftp://ftp4.jp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
ftp://ftp5.jp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
ftp://ftp6.jp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
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USA
In case of problems, please contact the hostmaster for this domain.
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
ftp://ftp2.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
ftp://ftp4.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
ftp://ftp5.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
ftp://ftp6.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
UK
In case of problems, please contact the hostmaster for this domain.
ftp://ftp.uk.FreeBSD.ORG/packages/unix/FreeBSD
ftp://ftp2.uk.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/walnut.creek/FreeBSD
ftp://ftp3.uk.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/unix/FreeBSD
The latest versions of export-restricted code for FreeBSD (2.0C or
later) (eBones and secure) are being made available at the following
locations. If you are outside the U.S. or Canada, please get secure
(DES) and eBones (Kerberos) from one of the following foreign
distribution sites:
South Africa
ftp://ftp.internat.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
ftp://ftp2.internat.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
Brazil
ftp://ftp.br.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
Finland
ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/FreeBSD/eurocrypt
Contact: count@nic.funet.fi.
More information about this release:
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FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE
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The subject says it all. Just FYI!
For more info: http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/fbsd22.htm
Thanks!
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: Announcing FreeBSD 2.2.2 - "The stealth release"
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So called because it has been done without much fanfare or prior
announcement. There are several reasons for this:
1. The RELENG_2_2 branch, through the services of releng22.freebsd.org,
has gotten quite a bit more testing than we usually enjoy, and
it was therefore not quite so necessary to do the extended ALPHA,
BETA and such releases this time. The entire branch is now, in
effect, an extended, ongoing BETA since we've been making only
relatively small changes to it.
2. Everytime I announce an impending release, the whole tree generally
breaks for about a week while everyone rushes to get last-minute
fixes in which weren't quite so important before but now, suddenly,
are on the "critical" list. ;) Due to other time pressures, I didn't
have a week to tap my feet and wait for the tree to get fixed again,
so I decided to just do it.
3. A number of instability problems with 2.2.1 (most notably in the
AHC driver) were causing commercial users to gravitate towards the
2.2-RELENG releases anyway, and this at least gives us a more
functional "full release" to direct such people to now.
It is available, as usual, from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD
and its mirrors.
A note for Walnut Creek CDROM customers:
This release will also be the basis for the upcoming "FreeBSD
Desktop/Pro" product, a release which includes bundled software from
Xi Graphics, Inc. for desktop users (AcceleratedX 3.1 and CDE 1.1).
The price on this is still TBD, and a follow-up announcement will be
made when this product is actually ready to ship, clarifying such
details.
Following a short interval to allow Satoshi & Co. to update the
packages collection for 2.2.2, this will also be released on CDROM as
a "standard" release, replacing the current 2.2.1 product.
And now, the usual release notes:
RELEASE NOTES
FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE
o For information about the layout of the release directory, see
the ABOUT.TXT file.
o For installation instructions, see the INSTALL.TXT and HARDWARE.TXT
files.
For the most up-to-date releases along the RELENG_2_2 branch (which
is now proceeding onwards toward release 2.2.5), please install from:
ftp://releng22.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
0. What's new since 2.2.1
-------------------------
A number of bugs in the Adaptec 294x/394x (AHC) driver were fixed
which could cause instability on heavily loaded systems.
NFSv3 is now the default, with fall-back to NFSv2 occuring as necessary.
An lchown() system call has been added for changing the ownership of symlinks.
Login classes added for setting default user limits (see login.conf(5)).
ftpd now supports virtual FTP hosting.
Numerous security fixes (buffer overflows and other potential exploits fixed).
Better build support for C++ libraries added.
Support for the GLOBAL text/HTML source tag system added (man global).
/etc/sysconfig now replaced by /etc/rc.conf - a more concise customization
file with more knobs added. Other things in /etc were also neatened
up, /etc/netstart being replaced with /etc/rc.network
User-mode ppp updated with various fixes and enhancements from 3.0-current.
Texinfo documentation mechanisms cleaned up in source tree.
1. What's new since 2.1.7
-------------------------
Lots of installation bugs fixed, more pc98 changes synchronized, geeze,
what else?
gdb 4.16 has been merged from -current, most of the third-party source
now lives under /usr/src/contrib.
Updated support for the DEC DEFPA/DEFEA FDDI hardware.
The old ``HAVE_FPU'' Makefile option is now finally gone, the selection
between the math library using the floating point emulator, and the
version using the co-processor is now fully automatic. This will speed
up floating-point using programs on sites that didn't like to recompile
their `libm' previously.
Javier Martin Rueda's `ex' driver has been merged, bringing support
for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 network cards.
The Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B now works in full-duplex mode.
The `de' driver now recognizes cards using the DE21140A chip, like the
popular SMC9332BDT (10/100 Mbit/s) one.
There's now a workaround for the brokenness of the frequently used
CMD640 PCI IDE chip in the sources, albeit still disabled by default
in 2.2.
The number of EISA slots to probe is now a fully supported option,
including the ability to save the value from a UserConfig session
with dset(8). This helps owners of HP NetServer LC machines to
install the system on their hardware.
Support for the SDL RISCom N2pci sync serial card.
Support for Cyclades Cyclom-Y (multi-port async serial) PCI adaptors
as well as multiple controllers and the 32-Y (if you are currently using
the Cyclades serial adapter, you should re-make your /dev entries and
remove the old ones).
Updated support for ethernet adaptors which use the DEC DC21X4X chipset.
Update to gcc 2.7.2.1 & add support for weak symbols.
Many things moved/brought into /usr/src/contrib, updating and
cleaning up the source tree accordingly.
Support for compiled-in shared library ld paths.
Update sgmlfmt to `instant'.
Support for SNMP-style interface MIBs, including full RFC
1650-compliant MIBs for the `de' (DEC 21x4x) and `ed' (SMC/WD/Novell)
drivers.
/stand/sysinstall moved even more towards becoming a more general
system management tool. You can actually add a new, from-scratch
formatted disk with it now, from partition label to filesystem
creation (though it still doesn't modify your /etc/fstab file to
make it permanent).
The syscons and psm drivers now have a new underlying shared keyboard
driver, eliminating many of the previously existing problems with
their mutual interaction.
Syscons now supports cut & paste in textmode using the moused(8)
utility.
2.2 is the first release that includes full CD-R support for the
Plasmon RF41xx, HP4020i, HP6020i, and Philips CDD2000 drives. The
driver is still under development (in particular to extend its
usability for other devices), but it has been proved to be stable
by now.
Support for NFSv3 clients and servers went into the 2.2 sources
shortly after branching off the 2.0.5/2.1.X tree. There are also
other options available with NFS, like the ability to turn an NFSv2
server into asynchronous write mode (which is in violation of the
specs, but has precedents e.g. in SGI Irix).
Poul-Henning Kamp's phkmalloc replaced the old and blatant BSD
malloc implementation. This usually saves a lot of virtual memory
for the clients, and offers some neat features like aborting the
program on detected malloc abuses, or filling the malloced and/or
freed area with junk in order to detect semantical problems in
programs that use malloc.
The `netatalk' implementation of AppleTalk has been integrated into
the sources, most of the integration work courtesy Whistle Communic-
ations Corp.
The mount option `async' allows asynchronous metadata updates on UFS
file systems, something that is the default e.g. on Linux' ext2fs.
This speeds up many i-node intensive filesystem operations (like
rm -r) at the cost of an increased risk in case of a system crash.
The installation itself makes use of this feature, and could be
drastically accelerated by this. (A bindist-only installation from a
SCSI CD-ROM can now complete in less than 5 minutes on a fast
machine!)
The ATAPI CD-ROM support is now reported to work for quite an
impressive number of drives. In other words, all the drives that
basically adhere to the ATAPI standard are likely to work.
There are many new drivers available in the kernel, too many to keep
them in mind. Tekram supplied a driver for their DC390 and DC390T
controllers. These controllers are based on the AMD 53c974, and the
driver is also able to handle other SCSI controllers based on that
chip. Of course, with Tekram being generous enough to support the
FreeBSD project with their driver, we'd like to encourage you to buy
their product. The `ed' and `lnc' drivers now support auto-config-
uration for the respective PCI ethernet cards, including many NE2000
clones and the AMD PCnet chips. The SDL RISCom N2 support is new, as
well as the PCI version of the Cyclades driver.
The Linux emulation is now fully functional, including ELF support.
To make its use easier, there are even ports for the required shared
libraries, and for the Slackware development environment.
Along the same lines, the SysV COFF emulation (aka. SCO emulation) is
reported to be working well now.
FreeBSD also supports native ELF binaries, although it hasn't been
decided yet whether, when, and how we might use this as the default
binary format some day.
A `brandelf' utility has been added to allow `branding' of non-shared
linked ELF binaries where the kernel cannot guess which image activator
(FreeBSD, Linux, maybe SysV some day) should be used. This works around
one major flaw in the ELF object format, the missing field to mark the
ABI it belongs to.
Support for APM BIOSes is now in a much better shape.
The manual section 9 has been started, describing `official' kernel
programming interfaces. We are still seeking volunteers to document
interfaces here!
The kernel configuration option handling has been largely moved away
from the old -D Makefile kludges, towards a system of "opt_foo.h"
kernel include files, allowing Makefile dependencies to work again.
We expect the old hack that blows the entire compile directory away
on each run of config(8) to go away anytime soon. Unless you're changing
weird options, you might now consider using the -n option to config(8),
or setting the env variable NO_CONFIG_CLOBBER, if CPU time is costly for
you. See also the comments in the handbook about how it works.
2. Supported Configurations
---------------------------
FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus
based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the
386sx is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive
configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is
also provided.
What follows is a list of all peripherals currently known to work with
FreeBSD. Other configurations may also work, we have simply not as yet
received confirmation of this.
2.1. Disk Controllers
---------------------
WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
IDE
ATA
Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices)
Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
Adaptec 274X/284X/2940/3940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI
controllers.
Adaptec AIC7850 on-board SCSI controllers.
Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x
and SoundBlaster SCSI cards.
** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no
on-board BIOS, such being necessary for mapping the boot device into the
system BIOS I/O vectors. They're perfectly usable for external tapes,
CDROMs, etc, however. The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card
without a boot ROM. Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally
indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up
or reset, and in such cases you *will* also be able to boot from them.
Check your system/board documentation for more details.
Buslogic 545S & 545c
Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller
Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller.
Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller
Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller
SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C825, 53c860 and 53c875 PCI SCSI
controllers:
ASUS SC-200
Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants)
NCR cards (all)
Symbios cards (all)
Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F
Tyan S1365
Tekram DC390 and DC390T controllers (maybe other cards based on the
AMD 53c974 as well).
NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller.
DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.
UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers.
Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers.
Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers.
WD7000 SCSI controller.
With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for
SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including
DAT and 8mm Exabyte) and CD ROM drives.
The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:
(cd) SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and
SoundBlaster SCSI)
(mcd) Mitsumi proprietary interface (all models)
(matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary
interface (562/563 models)
(scd) Sony proprietary interface (all models)
(wcd) ATAPI IDE interface (experimental and should be considered ALPHA
quality!).
2.2. Ethernet cards
-------------------
Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards
AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974)
SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E,
WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT
based clones. SMC Elite Ultra is also supported.
DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205)
DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422)
DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc)
DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs
Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A
HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A).
Intel EtherExpress (not recommended due to driver instability)
Intel EtherExpress Pro/10
Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet
Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit)
Isolink 4110 (8 bit)
Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface.
3Com 3C501 cards
3Com 3C503 Etherlink II
3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+
3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP
3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905 PCI and EISA
(Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL
Toshiba ethernet cards
PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also
supported.
Note that NO token ring cards are supported at this time as we're
still waiting for someone to donate a driver for one of them. Any
takers?
2.3. Misc
---------
AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ.
ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ.
ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial.
Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported)
Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported)
Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board.
STB 4 port card using shared IRQ.
SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board.
SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards.
Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64,
ONboard 4/16 and Brumby.
Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound
and Roland MPU-401 sound cards.
Connectix QuickCam
Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber
Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber
Cortex1 frame grabber
HP4020i, Philips CDD2000 and PLASMON WORM (CDR) drives.
PS/2 mice
Standard PC Joystick
X-10 power controllers
GPIB and Transputer drivers.
Genius and Mustek hand scanners.
FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus.
3. Obtaining FreeBSD
--------------------
You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways:
3.1. FTP/Mail
-------------
You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from
`ftp.freebsd.org' - the official FreeBSD release site.
For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file
MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in
networking terms) to you. Additional mirror sites are always welcome!
Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to
become an official mirror site.
If you do not have access to the Internet and electronic mail is your
only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to
`ftpmail@ftpmail.vix.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message
to get more information on how to fetch files using this mechanism.
Please do note, however, that this will end up sending many *tens of
megabytes* through the mail and should only be employed as an absolute
LAST resort!
3.2. CDROM
----------
FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE and 2.2-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from:
Walnut Creek CDROM
4041 Pike Lane, Suite D
Concord CA 94520
1-800-786-9907, +1-510-674-0783, +1-510-674-0821 (fax)
Or via the Internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com.
Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp from:
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog.
Cost per -RELEASE CD is $39.95 or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription.
FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP CDs are $29.95 or $14.95 with a FreeBSD-SNAP subscription
(-RELEASE and -SNAP subscriptions are entirely separate). With a
subscription, you will automatically receive updates as they are released.
Your credit card will be billed when each disk is shipped and you may cancel
your subscription at any time without further obligation.
Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or Mexico
and $9.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American
Express or checks in U.S. Dollars and ship COD within the United
States. California residents please add 8.25% sales tax.
Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an
unconditional return policy.
4. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code.
-----------------------------------------------------------
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:
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.
Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to:
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:
freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
All but the freebsd-bugs groups 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!
5. Acknowledgements
-------------------
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
Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers:
Coranth Gryphon Dave Rivers
Kaleb S. Keithley Terry Lambert
David Dawes Don Lewis
Special mention to:
Walnut Creek CDROM, without whose help (and continuing support)
this release would never have been possible.
Dermot McDonnell for his donation of a Toshiba XM3401B CDROM
drive.
Chuck Robey for his donation of a floppy tape streamer for
testing.
Larry Altneu and Wilko Bulte for providing us with Wangtek
and Archive QIC-02 tape drives for testing and driver hacking.
CalWeb Internet Services for the loan of a P6/200 machine for
speedy package building.
Everyone at Montana State University for their initial support.
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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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 12:07:51 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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It is my great pleasure, as always, to announce the release of FreeBSD
2.2.5, our next release on the 2.2-stable branch. Those folks who are
still running 2.1.x and wish to upgrade to 2.2 technology are now
encouraged to do so as 2.2.5 has reached an equivalent level of
stability in all of our tests. A number of annoying problems with
2.2.2 have also been fixed (see the release notes appended for more
information on this).
FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE is available on ftp.freebsd.org and various FTP
mirror sites throughout the world. It can also be ordered on CD from
Walnut Creek CDROM, from where it will be shipping shortly as a new 4
CD set containing a lot of extra stuff of interest to programmers and
general users alike.
The official FTP distribution site for FreeBSD is:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
Or via the WEB page at:
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD
And on CD-ROM from Walnut Creek CDROM:
Walnut Creek CDROM
4041 Pike Lane, #D
Concord CA, 94520 USA
Phone: +1 510 674-0783
Fax: +1 510 674-0821
Tech Support: +1 510 603-1234
Email: info@cdrom.com
WWW: http://www.cdrom.com/
Additionally, FreeBSD is available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites
in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark,
Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Japan,
Korea, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa,
Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand and the UK (among other countries :). Please
check your regional mirrors first by going to:
ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD
since ftp.freebsd.org is itself rather overloaded at the present time
(Id software and Slackware Linux chose the same time to release their
latest products :).
The latest versions of export-restricted code for FreeBSD (2.0C or
later) (eBones and secure) are also being made available at the
following locations. If you are outside the U.S. or Canada, please get
secure (DES) and eBones (Kerberos) from one of the following foreign
distribution sites:
South Africa
ftp://ftp.internat.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
ftp://ftp2.internat.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
Brazil
ftp://ftp.br.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
Finland
ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/FreeBSD/eurocrypt
More information about this release:
RELEASE NOTES
FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE
o For information about the layout of the release directory, see
the ABOUT.TXT file. If you are installing from floppies, it is
especially important that you *read this section!*
o For installation instructions, see the INSTALL.TXT and HARDWARE.TXT
files.
For the most up-to-date releases along the RELENG_2_2 branch (which
is now proceeding onwards toward release 2.2.6), please install from:
ftp://releng22.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
Or for the latest 3.0-current (HEAD branch) snapshot releases,
please install from:
ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD
1. What's new since 2.2.2
-------------------------
Better support for Cyrix and AMD processors.
The "world" target in /usr/src/Makefile has been made more
independent of the host system, allowing for easier bootstrapping
via source from very old systems.
Many many fixes to the documentation.
Many security enhancements, as reported through CERT and other
computer security organizations.
The installation program was further updated and fixed, some
year-old bogons finally eliminated for 2.2.5.
Important subsystems such as BIND and sendmail updated.
Support for ethernet media selection. Replacing the far
more arcane "link" flag usage, a new media flag to ifconfig
permits specific interfaces on multi-port ethernet cards to
be selected by name (man ifconfig for more details).
Significant improvements to the AHC (Adaptec 394x/294X) driver
and AIC7xxx assembler.
Enhancements to the serial boot code and GDB remote support.
Make work-around available for CMD640 chipset (see /sys/i386/conf/LINT).
Newer 3Com 3c589D PCMCIA cards are now supported.
A new VGA library (/usr/src/lib/libvgl) now exists for doing simple
VGA graphics to syscons ttys (sort of like Linux's libSVGA).
The TCP connection timeout in lpd & friends can now be specified by a
printcap(5) capability, preventing it from hanging for too long when
working in an environment with many network printservers.
User-mode ppp updated with various fixes and enhancements from 3.0-current.
It's worth re-reading the manual page since some of the following changes
may disturb peoples current configurations:
o The "set debug" command is now "set log".
o The LCP log has been split into an LCP, IPCP and CCP log, so any
"set log LCP" lines will need to be changed to "set log LCP IPCP CCP"
to see the same output as before.
o Ppp now uses syslogd to write its log files.
o Ppp now has LQR disabled and openmode active by default.
o Ppp now installs as group "network", with mode 4550. You must add group
69 (network) to /etc/group. If you wish to allow users to run "ppp
-direct ...", you must enable them by making them a member of group
"network". Client-side ppp now requires user id 0.
Refer to the ppp(8) man page and the relevent section of the handbook for
full details.
2. Supported Configurations
---------------------------
FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus
based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the
386sx is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive
configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is
also provided.
What follows is a list of all peripherals currently known to work with
FreeBSD. Other configurations may also work, we have simply not as yet
received confirmation of this.
2.1. Disk Controllers
---------------------
WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
IDE
ATA
Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
Adaptec 274X/284X/2940/3940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI
controllers.
Adaptec AIC7850 on-board SCSI controllers.
Support for the following controllers is rather weak:
Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices)
Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x
and SoundBlaster SCSI cards.
** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no
on-board BIOS, such being necessary for mapping the boot device into the
system BIOS I/O vectors. They're perfectly usable for external tapes,
CDROMs, etc, however. The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card
without a boot ROM. Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally
indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up
or reset, and in such cases you *will* also be able to boot from them.
Check your system/board documentation for more details.
Buslogic 545S & 545c
Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller
Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller.
Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller
Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller
SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C825, 53c860 and 53c875 PCI SCSI
controllers:
ASUS SC-200
Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants)
NCR cards (all)
Symbios cards (all)
Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F
Tyan S1365
Tekram DC390 and DC390T controllers (maybe other cards based on the
AMD 53c974 as well).
NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller.
DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.
UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers.
Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers.
Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers.
WD7000 SCSI controller.
FreeBSD 2.2.5 will be accompanied by a contributed driver for the
Future Domain 36C20 / Adaptec AHA2920 controller. This is not fully
supported (yet), but basically functional. Look into the /xperimnt
section of the CD-ROM.
With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for
SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including
DAT and 8mm Exabyte) and CD ROM drives.
The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:
(cd) SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and
SoundBlaster SCSI)
(mcd) Mitsumi proprietary interface (all models, driver is rather stale)
(matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary
interface (562/563 models)
(scd) Sony proprietary interface (all models)
(wcd) ATAPI IDE interface.
2.2. Ethernet cards
-------------------
Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards
AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974)
SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E,
WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT
based clones. SMC Elite Ultra is also supported.
DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205)
DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422)
DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc)
DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs
Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A
HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A).
Intel EtherExpress (not recommended due to driver instability)
Intel EtherExpress Pro/10
Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet
Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit)
Isolink 4110 (8 bit)
Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface.
3Com 3C501 cards
3Com 3C503 Etherlink II
3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+
3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP
3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905 PCI and EISA
(Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL
Toshiba ethernet cards
PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also
supported.
Note that NO token ring cards are supported at this time as we're
still waiting for someone to donate a driver for one of them. Any
takers?
2.3. Misc
---------
AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ.
ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ.
ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial.
Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported)
Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported)
Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board.
STB 4 port card using shared IRQ.
SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board.
SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards.
Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64,
ONboard 4/16 and Brumby.
Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound
and Roland MPU-401 sound cards.
Connectix QuickCam
Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber
Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber
Cortex1 frame grabber
Various Frame grabbers based on Brooktree Bt848 chip.
HP4020, HP6020, Philips CDD2000/CDD2660 and Plasmon CD-R drives.
PS/2 mice
Standard PC Joystick
X-10 power controllers
GPIB and Transputer drivers.
Genius and Mustek hand scanners.
Floppy tape drives (some rather old models only, driver rather stale)
FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus.
3. Obtaining FreeBSD
--------------------
You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways:
3.1. FTP/Mail
-------------
You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from
`ftp.freebsd.org' - the official FreeBSD release site.
For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file
MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in
networking terms) to you. Additional mirror sites are always welcome!
Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to
become an official mirror site.
If you do not have access to the Internet and electronic mail is your
only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to
`ftpmail@ftpmail.vix.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message
to get more information on how to fetch files using this mechanism.
Please do note, however, that this will end up sending many *tens of
megabytes* through the mail and should only be employed as an absolute
LAST resort!
3.2. CDROM
----------
FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE and 2.2-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from:
Walnut Creek CDROM
4041 Pike Lane, Suite D
Concord CA 94520
1-800-786-9907, +1-510-674-0783, +1-510-674-0821 (fax)
Or via the Internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com.
Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp from:
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog.
Cost per -RELEASE CD is $39.95 or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription.
FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP CDs are $29.95 or $14.95 with a FreeBSD-SNAP subscription
(-RELEASE and -SNAP subscriptions are entirely separate). With a
subscription, you will automatically receive updates as they are released.
Your credit card will be billed when each disk is shipped and you may cancel
your subscription at any time without further obligation.
Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or Mexico
and $9.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American
Express or checks in U.S. Dollars and ship COD within the United
States. California residents please add 8.25% sales tax.
Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an
unconditional return policy.
4. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code.
-----------------------------------------------------------
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:
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.
Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to:
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:
freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
All but the freebsd-bugs groups 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!
5. Acknowledgements
-------------------
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
Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers:
Coranth Gryphon Dave Rivers
Kaleb S. Keithley Terry Lambert
David Dawes Don Lewis
Special mention to:
Walnut Creek CDROM, without whose help (and continuing support)
this release would never have been possible.
Dermot McDonnell for his donation of a Toshiba XM3401B CDROM
drive.
Chuck Robey for his donation of a floppy tape streamer for
testing.
Larry Altneu and Wilko Bulte for providing us with Wangtek
and Archive QIC-02 tape drives for testing and driver hacking.
Everyone at Montana State University for their initial support.
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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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 13:29:18 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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This is what I get for cutting and pasting from old annoucements
without looking closely enough at them. In my last announcement, I
said:
>3.2. CDROM
>----------
>FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE and 2.2-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from:
Which should, of course, have read "2.2.5-RELEASE and 3.0-SNAPSHOT CDs .."
The 2.1.7 CD is no longer available from Walnut Creek CDROM, the
current CD products being 2.2.5-RELEASE and 3.0-971006-SNAP.
Thanks.
Jordan
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The new 4 CD set of FreeBSD 2.2.5 is now in stock and shipping. The
back-orders have already been processed and subscription customers
should also be receiving their CDs shortly, modulo the usual shipping
and customs delays for the international customers.
More information is available from http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/fbsd25.htm
so I won't repeat all that information here except to say that the price
is the same as usual, $39.95 per CD set or $24.95 with a subscription.
[The cdrom.com web site is also a little out of date and should be
updated by Monday afternoon, so don't be disconcerted by the banner
saying that it's "shipping soon" - that's outdated info]
This new 4 CD set also contains a lot of extra goodies, such as a complete
unpacked CVS repository, a live filesystem with full sources (for both
FreeBSD and XFree86), extra docs, a snapshot of www.freebsd.org, you
name it and it's probably there - a full 2.4GB of FreeBSD stuff! :)
Walnut Creek CDROM has also brought back the popular 4 color FreeBSD
T-shirt with Tatsumi Hosokawa's artwork and will soon have it in
stock, though the final price has yet to be determined - it should be
somewhere between $15 - $18. Just for something totally new, we will
also soon have some rather nice FreeBSD polo shirts sporting an
embroidered daemon on the pocket with the word "FreeBSD" below it.
These shirts are of very high quality and with a price tag to match -
$45.00. Not cheap, but still a great gift item for that special
FreeBSD someone in your life this Christmas. :)
Jordan
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As always, it's my great pleasure to announce the release of FreeBSD 2.2.6,
our latest release on the 2.2-stable branch and the result of over 4 months
of work since 2.2.5 was released. See the release notes for a list of
significant changes since the previous release.
FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE is available on ftp.freebsd.org and various FTP mirror
sites throughout the world. It can also be ordered on CD from Walnut Creek
CDROM, from where it will be shipping shortly as a 4 CD set containing a lot
of extra stuff of interest to the programmer and general user alike.
The official FTP distribution site for FreeBSD is:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
Or via the WEB page at:
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD
And on CD-ROM from Walnut Creek CDROM:
Walnut Creek CDROM
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Concord CA, 94520 USA
Phone: +1 925 674-0783
Fax: +1 925 674-0821
Tech Support: +1 925 603-1234
Email: info@cdrom.com
WWW: http://www.cdrom.com/
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Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, the
Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan,
Thailand and the UK (among other countries :). Please check your regional
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ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD
The latest versions of export-restricted code for FreeBSD (2.0C or later)
(eBones and secure) are also being made available at the following
locations. If you are outside the U.S. or Canada, please get secure (DES)
and eBones (Kerberos) from one of the following foreign distribution sites:
South Africa
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ftp://ftp2.internat.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
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As always, it's my great pleasure to announce the release of FreeBSD 2.2.6,
our latest release on the 2.2-stable branch and the result of over 4 months
of work since 2.2.5 was released. See the release notes for a list of
significant changes since the previous release.
FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE is available on ftp.freebsd.org and various FTP mirror
sites throughout the world. It can also be ordered on CD from Walnut Creek
CDROM, from where it will be shipping shortly as a 4 CD set containing a lot
of extra stuff of interest to the programmer and general user alike.
The official FTP distribution site for FreeBSD is:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
Or via the WEB page at:
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD
And on CD-ROM from Walnut Creek CDROM:
Walnut Creek CDROM
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Concord CA, 94520 USA
Phone: +1 925 674-0783
Fax: +1 925 674-0821
Tech Support: +1 925 603-1234
Email: info@cdrom.com
WWW: http://www.cdrom.com/
Additionally, FreeBSD is available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in
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Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, the
Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan,
Thailand and the UK (among other countries :). Please check your regional
mirrors first by going to:
ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD
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(eBones and secure) are also being made available at the following
locations. If you are outside the U.S. or Canada, please get secure (DES)
and eBones (Kerberos) from one of the following foreign distribution sites:
South Africa
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ftp://ftp2.internat.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
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It is my usual pleasure to announce the release of FreeBSD 2.2.7, our
next (and next to the last) release along the 2.2-stable branch.
Those folks who are still running 2.1.x and wish to upgrade to 2.2
technology are encouraged to do so as 2.2.7 has reached a more than
equivalent level of stability in all of our tests. A number of
problems with 2.2.6 have also been fixed (see the release notes
appended).
FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE is available on ftp.freebsd.org and its various
FTP mirror sites throughout the world. It can also be ordered on CD
from Walnut Creek CDROM, from where it will be shipping shortly as a 4
CD set containing a lot of extra stuff of interest to programmers and
general users alike.
IMPORTANT NOTE: All of the profits from the sales of this CD set go to
support the FreeBSD Project!
Like many businesses in the field of high-tech, Walnut Creek CDROM has
realized that in order to make any product for an emerging market
grow, you have to make a significant investment in such growth, even
if it means abandoning short-term profits. Walnut Creek CDROM is the
only CDROM vendor who currently does anything like this and it's
certainly my hope that you will help support the project by buying (or
getting someone else to buy :) one of their CDs. Thanks!
The official FTP distribution site for FreeBSD is:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
Or use your web browser to access:
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/index.html
Or, you can get it on CDROM from Walnut Creek CDROM:
Walnut Creek CDROM
4041 Pike Lane, #F
Concord CA, 94520 USA
Phone: +1 925 674-0783
Fax: +1 925 674-0821
Tech Support: +1 925 603-1234
Email: info@cdrom.com
WWW: http://www.cdrom.com/
If you are in Japan, please refer to http://www.pht.co.jp for
information on ordering a localized (or the english) version of the
2.2.7 product. Pacific HiTech is now an affiliate of Walnut Creek
CDROM for Japanese sales of FreeBSD.
Additionally, FreeBSD is available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites
in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria,
Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France,
Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea,
Latvia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia,
Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, the Ukraine
and the United Kingdom (and quite possibly several others which I've
never even heard of :).
Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional
mirror(s) first by going to:
ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD
Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.
The latest versions of export-restricted code for FreeBSD (eBones and
secure dists) are also being made available at the following
locations. If you are outside the U.S. or Canada, please get these
files from one of the following foreign distribution sites:
South Africa
ftp://ftp.internat.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
ftp://ftp2.internat.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
Brazil
ftp://ftp.br.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
Finland
ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/FreeBSD/eurocrypt
More information about this release:
================================================================
RELEASE NOTES
FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE VERSION
================================================================
1. What's new since 2.2.6
-------------------------
Kernel features:
----------------
o DPT SCSI RAID controller updated (including support for EISA cards)
and is now enabled by default.
o MSDOS FAT32 (Win95 long filename) support.
o Various bugs in the SCSI changer code fixed.
o New support for Crystal Semiconductor CS8920 based ethernet cards.
o Dead LFS code removed.
o New updated Specialix SI/XIO/SX driver.
o dmesg (history buffer) now user-sizeable. See MSGBUF_SIZE
option in /sys/i386/conf/LINT.
o Various bugfixes for the Adaptec aic7870/aic7880 chipsets.
o Identify Pentium II processors properly at startup now.
o pcm audio driver updated to support Avance Logic ALS100 card and
basically improve audio support all around.
o Various fixes to NFS credential checking.
o Many updates for the NEC PC98 platform.
Userland features:
------------------
o inetd(8) now allows rate-limiting for services.
o ppp(8) utility significantly updated. See man page for details.
o Many (MANY!) man pages and other docs updated and cleaned up.
o libc_r (part of POSIX pthread support) is now part of the system by
default and incorporates numerous bug fixes.
o ls(1) has grown a number of new flags - man ls for details.
o cvs(1) updated to version 1.9.26
o Various parts of /etc updated with selected features from 3.0.
o as(1) now understands fildll/fistpll opcodes.
o Various improvements to the installation procedure.
o Various minor curses(3) positioning errors fixed.
o Several bugs in dump(8) and restore(8) fixed.
o Various enhancements made to the login class mechanism and
default limits raised for workstation users.
o ftpd disables Nagle on the control channel for better response.
Security issues:
----------------
o XFree86 updated to 3.3.2.3 - an important security release containing
changes from The Open Group which close several possible root-exploits
from local users.
o Crypto repository updated from 3.0 branch.
o popper and imap upgraded in ports collection to close some nasty security
holes (see Bugtrax).
o Various buffer overflows in utilities like rcp(1) and more(1) (just to
name a few) have been closed.
o Bounds-checking added to numerous "attackable" locations in BIND and
much of BIND significantly updated.
2. Supported Configurations
---------------------------
FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus
based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the
386sx is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive
configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is
also provided.
What follows is a list of all peripherals currently known to work with
FreeBSD. Other configurations may also work, we have simply not as yet
received confirmation of this.
2.1. Disk Controllers
---------------------
WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
IDE
ATA
Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
Adaptec 274X/284X/2940/3940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI
controllers.
Adaptec AIC7850 on-board SCSI controllers.
** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no
on-board BIOS, such being necessary for mapping the boot device into the
system BIOS I/O vectors. They're perfectly usable for external tapes,
CDROMs, etc, however. The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card
without a boot ROM. Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally
indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up
or reset, and in such cases you *will* also be able to boot from them.
Check your system/board documentation for more details.
Buslogic 545S & 545c
Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller
Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller.
Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller
Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller
SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C825, 53c860 and 53c875 PCI SCSI
controllers:
ASUS SC-200
Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants)
NCR cards (all)
Symbios cards (all)
Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F
Tyan S1365
Tekram DC390 and DC390T controllers (maybe other cards based on the
AMD 53c974 as well).
NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller.
DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.
UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers.
Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers.
Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers.
WD7000 SCSI controller.
With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for
SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including
DAT and 8mm Exabyte) and CD ROM drives.
The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:
(cd) SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and
SoundBlaster SCSI)
(matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary
interface (562/563 models)
(scd) Sony proprietary interface (all models)
(wcd) ATAPI IDE interface
Unmaintained drivers, they might or might not work for your hardware:
Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices)
Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x
and SoundBlaster SCSI cards.
Floppy tape interface (Colorado/Mountain/Insight)
(mcd) Mitsumi proprietary CD-ROM interface (all models)
2.2. Ethernet cards
-------------------
Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards
AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974)
SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E,
WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT
based clones. SMC Elite Ultra. SMC Etherpower II.
Texas Instruments ThunderLAN PCI NICs, including the following:
Compaq Netelligent 10, 10/100, 10/100 Proliant, 10/100 Dual-Port
Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX Embedded UTP, 10 T PCI UTP/Coax, 10/100 TX UTP
Compaq NetFlex 3P, 3P Integrated, 3P w/ BNC
Olicom OC-2135/2138, OC-2325, OC-2326 10/100 TX UTP
DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205)
DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422)
DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc)
DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs
Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A
HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A).
Intel EtherExpress (not recommended due to driver instability)
Intel EtherExpress Pro/10
Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet
Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit)
Isolink 4110 (8 bit)
Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface.
3Com 3C501 cards
3Com 3C503 Etherlink II
3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+
3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP
3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905 PCI and EISA
(Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL
Toshiba ethernet cards
PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also
supported.
Note that NO token ring cards are supported at this time as we're
still waiting for someone to donate a driver for one of them. Any
takers?
2.3. Misc
---------
AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ.
ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ.
ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial.
Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported)
Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported)
Comtrol Rocketport card.
Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board.
STB 4 port card using shared IRQ.
SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board.
SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards.
Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64,
ONboard 4/16 and Brumby.
Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound
and Roland MPU-401 sound cards.
Connectix QuickCam
Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber
Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber
Cortex1 frame grabber
Hauppauge Wincast/TV boards (PCI)
STB TV PCI
Intel Smart Video Recorder III
Various Frame grabbers based on Brooktree Bt848 chip.
HP4020, HP6020, Philips CDD2000/CDD2660 and Plasmon CD-R drives.
PS/2 mice
Standard PC Joystick
X-10 power controllers
GPIB and Transputer drivers.
Genius and Mustek hand scanners.
FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus.
3. Obtaining FreeBSD
--------------------
You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways:
3.1. FTP/Mail
-------------
You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from
`ftp.freebsd.org' - the official FreeBSD release site.
For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file
MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in
networking terms) to you. Additional mirror sites are always welcome!
Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to
become an official mirror site.
If you do not have access to the Internet and electronic mail is your
only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to
`ftpmail@ftpmail.vix.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message
to get more information on how to fetch files using this mechanism.
Please do note, however, that this will end up sending many *tens of
megabytes* through the mail and should only be employed as an absolute
LAST resort!
3.2. CDROM
----------
FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP and 2.2.x-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from:
Walnut Creek CDROM
4041 Pike Lane, Suite D
Concord CA 94520
1-800-786-9907, +1-925-674-0783, +1-925-674-0821 (FAX)
Or via the Internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com.
Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp from:
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog
Cost per -RELEASE CD is $39.95 or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription.
FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP CDs are $39.95 or $14.95 with a FreeBSD-SNAP subscription
(-RELEASE and -SNAP subscriptions are entirely separate). With a
subscription, you will automatically receive updates as they are released.
Your credit card will be billed when each disk is shipped and you may cancel
your subscription at any time without further obligation.
Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or Mexico
and $9.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American
Express or checks in U.S. Dollars and ship COD within the United
States. California residents please add 8.25% sales tax.
Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an
unconditional return policy.
4. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code.
-----------------------------------------------------------
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:
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.
Otherwise, for any questions or tech support issues, please send mail to:
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:
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!
5. Acknowledgements
-------------------
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
Everyone at Montana State University for their initial support.
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!
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An 11th hour bug in the boot floppies, having to do with the way
XFree86 distributions are chosen, was discovered during final CD
testing. Though this problem is not fatal and can be easily worked
around by either choosing one of the "canned" XFree86 distributions
(X-Developer, X-User, etc) or by installing XFree86 by hand, it was
deemed annoying enough to re-roll the boot floppies and update them on
ftp.freebsd.org. If you have grabbed the 2.2.7 boot floppies earlier,
you may wish to get them again. Those getting 2.2.7 on CD will never
see this problem and this is only of concern to the folks who install
over the net.
Just FYI!
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I'm pleased to announce that the latest 4 CD set from Walnut Creek
CDROM, FreeBSD 2.2.7, is now in stock and shipping to subscription
customers today. For more information, please see http://www.cdrom.com
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Just so nobody can claim that I'm going to sneak another -stable
release out the door, let me just announce it NOW with plenty of
advance notice! :-)
The official release date for FreeBSD 2.2.8 is November 15th, 1998.
This will be the LAST release along the 2.2 branch, at which point it
will be well and truly dead except for a very small amount of security
and other types of similar "nasty bug" fixing for the benefit of those
who continue to sync themselves to the 2.2-stable branch. Since 3.0
is scheduled for release on October 15th, I figure that by the time
people are looking to upgrade again sometime in Q1 of 1999, we'll have
enough of the rough edges filed off for people to make a full and
reasonable committment to 3.0.x.
Again, November 15th is the date and I'm not going to change it, so
just mark it now on your calendars and don't claim that I didn't warn
you when the time comes around - I expect everyone to remember this
date and, if they don't, it's their own darn fault. I may or may not
make another announcement closer to that date, so simply take it as
read that November 15th is the date in question and if you forget and
start gritching come November, I'm merely going to forward this
message to you again and say "I scheduled this almost 4 months ago and
announced it widely, so it's not *my* fault if you have Alzheimers!" :-)
Now that we've got that out of the way, I'd also like to make some
changes to the way 2.2.x has been maintained. Rather than do a merge
from hell right before the 2.2.8 release, like I did for 2.2.6 and
2.2.7, I'm just going to expect the committers to back-port any work
they do in -current which fits the classic definition of something
which should go into -stable (obvious bug fix, low impact, no
significant new functionality unless it fixes something which is
seriously broken [like MSDOSfs], etc.). If you don't take care to
merge it, don't be surprised if it doesn't make it into 2.2.8 since I
refuse to take that all on my own shoulders again. The quality of
this last release of 2.2 will rest squarely with the committers and
the various users who can help by spotting things in 3.0 which really
should be back-ported and reporting that to committers@freebsd.org.
Once more, 2.2.8 is going to be the VERY LAST release on the
2.2-stable branch and if you want to make it a worthy cap for what has
been a highly successful line, there's no time like the present for
thinking about what you need to merge. The sooner you do the work,
the more time the CVSup/CTMers of 2.2-stable will also have for
testing it and seeing if there are any unforseen side-effects. I
propose to freeze the branch on November 7th, so please don't leave it
to the last minute like everyone always does - once this release is
out the door, there won't be a second chance for the 2.2 branch!
This has been a public service announcement. :)
Thanks!
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It is, as always, my great pleasure to announce the release of FreeBSD
2.2.8, our latest and final release along the 2.2-stable branch. Those
folks who are still running 2.1.x and wish to upgrade to 2.2
technology are definitely encouraged to do so now as the 2.2-stable
branch has gone into maintainence mode. A number of problems with
2.2.7 have been fixed and the release notes (appended) should be
consulted for more information.
FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE is available on ftp.freebsd.org and various FTP
mirror sites throughout the world. It can also be ordered on CD from
Walnut Creek CDROM, from where it will be shipping shortly as a 4 CD
set containing a lot of extra stuff of interest to programmers and
general users alike.
IMPORTANT NOTE: All of the profits from the sales of this CD set go to
support the FreeBSD Project!
The official FTP distribution site for FreeBSD is:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
Or via the WEB page at:
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD
And on CD-ROM from Walnut Creek CDROM:
Walnut Creek CDROM
4041 Pike Lane, #F
Concord CA, 94520 USA
Phone: +1 925 674-0783
Fax: +1 925 674-0821
Tech Support: +1 925 603-1234
Email: info@cdrom.com
WWW: http://www.cdrom.com/
If you are in Japan, please refer to Pacific HiTech for information on
ordering a localized (or the english) version of the 2.2.8
product. Pacific HiTech is now an affiliate of Walnut Creek CDROM for
Japanese sales of FreeBSD.
Additionally, FreeBSD is available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites
in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria,
Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France,
Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea,
Latvia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia,
Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, the Ukraine
and the United Kingdom (and quite possibly several others which I've
never even heard of :).
Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional
mirror(s) first by going to:
ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD
Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.
The latest versions of export-restricted code for FreeBSD (2.0C or
later) (eBones and secure) are also being made available at the
following locations. If you are outside the U.S. or Canada, please get
secure (DES) and eBones (Kerberos) from one of the following foreign
distribution sites:
South Africa
ftp://ftp.internat.F reeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
ftp://ftp2.internat.FreeBS D.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
Brazil
ftp://ftp.br.FreeBSD.ORG/p ub/FreeBSD
Finland
ftp://nic.funet.f i/pub/unix/FreeBSD/eurocrypt
================================================================
RELEASE NOTES
FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE VERSION
================================================================
1. What's new since 2.2.7
-------------------------
Kernel features:
----------------
o Add support for >8G IDE drives.
o Add support for 3Com 3c905B ethernet adapters
o Add support for PCI ThunderLAN-based ethernet adapters (Compaq/Olicom)
o Significantly improve Linux emulator again. Things like QuakeII should
just run out-of-the-box now (given the rest of their requirements).
o Major changes from -current's pthread implementation merged: This includes
file locking based on FILE *, signal fixes, read/write-locks, better POSIX
compliance and better performance.
o Add a new flexible bandwidth limiter/delay emulator called
dummynet. See dummynet(4).
o Add support for bridging on multiple interfaces (10 and 100 Mbit/s).
See bridge(4).
o NFS client accelerator added. See 'nfs_access_cache' in rc.conf(5).
Userland features:
------------------
o /bin/sh signal and trap handling reworked. Among other things, this
makes tty-mode emacs work when called from system(2), i.e. by a mail
agent.
o ppp(8) merged from 3.0, adding features like multilink and VPN
support as well as fixing a number of known bugs.
Security issues:
----------------
o All open CERT/Bugtraq advisories against 2.2.7 have been dealt with.
2. Supported Configurations
---------------------------
FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus
based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the
386sx is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive
configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is
also provided.
What follows is a list of all peripherals currently known to work with
FreeBSD. Other configurations may also work, we have simply not as yet
received confirmation of this.
2.1. Disk Controllers
---------------------
WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
IDE
ATA
Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
Adaptec 274X/284X/2940/3940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI
controllers.
Adaptec AIC7850 on-board SCSI controllers.
** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no
on-board BIOS, such being necessary for mapping the boot device into the
system BIOS I/O vectors. They're perfectly usable for external tapes,
CDROMs, etc, however. The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card
without a boot ROM. Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally
indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up
or reset, and in such cases you *will* also be able to boot from them.
Check your system/board documentation for more details.
Buslogic 545S & 545c
Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller
Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller.
Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller
Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller
SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C825, 53c860 and 53c875 PCI SCSI
controllers:
ASUS SC-200
Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants)
NCR cards (all)
Symbios cards (all)
Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F
Tyan S1365
Tekram DC390 and DC390T controllers (maybe other cards based on the
AMD 53c974 as well).
NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller.
DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.
UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers.
Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers.
Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers.
WD7000 SCSI controller.
With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for
SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including
DAT and 8mm Exabyte) and CD ROM drives.
The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:
(cd) SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and
SoundBlaster SCSI)
(matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary
interface (562/563 models)
(scd) Sony proprietary interface (all models)
(wcd) ATAPI CDROM interface
(acd) ATAPI CD-R interface (alternative to 'wcd')
Unmaintained drivers, they might or might not work for your hardware:
Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices)
Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x
and SoundBlaster SCSI cards.
Floppy tape interface (Colorado/Mountain/Insight)
(mcd) Mitsumi proprietary CD-ROM interface (all models)
2.2. Ethernet cards
-------------------
Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards
AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974)
SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E,
WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT
based clones. SMC Elite Ultra. SMC Etherpower II.
Texas Instruments ThunderLAN PCI NICs, including the following:
Compaq Netelligent 10, 10/100, 10/100 Proliant, 10/100 Dual-Port
Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX Embedded UTP, 10 T PCI UTP/Coax, 10/100 TX UTP
Compaq NetFlex 3P, 3P Integrated, 3P w/ BNC
Olicom OC-2135/2138, OC-2325, OC-2326 10/100 TX UTP
DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205)
DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422)
DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc)
DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs
Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A
HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A).
Intel EtherExpress (not recommended due to driver instability)
Intel EtherExpress Pro/10
Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet
Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit)
Isolink 4110 (8 bit)
Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface.
3Com 3C501 cards
3Com 3C503 Etherlink II
3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+
3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP
3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905/905B PCI and EISA
(Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL
Toshiba ethernet cards
PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also
supported.
No token ring cards are supported at this time.
2.3. Misc
---------
AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ.
ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ.
ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial.
Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported)
Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported)
Comtrol Rocketport card.
Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board.
STB 4 port card using shared IRQ.
SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board.
SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards.
Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64,
ONboard 4/16 and Brumby.
Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound
and Roland MPU-401 sound cards.
Connectix QuickCam
Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber
Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber
Cortex1 frame grabber
Hauppauge Wincast/TV boards (PCI)
STB TV PCI
Intel Smart Video Recorder III
Various Frame grabbers based on Brooktree Bt848 chip.
HP4020, HP6020, Philips CDD2000/CDD2660 and Plasmon CD-R drives.
PS/2 mice
Standard PC Joystick
X-10 power controllers
GPIB and Transputer drivers.
Genius and Mustek hand scanners.
FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus.
3. Obtaining FreeBSD
--------------------
You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways:
3.1. FTP/Mail
-------------
You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from
`ftp.freebsd.org' - the official FreeBSD release site.
For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file
MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in
networking terms) to you. Additional mirror sites are always welcome!
Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to
become an official mirror site.
3.2. CDROM
----------
FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP and 2.2.x-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from:
Walnut Creek CDROM
4041 Pike Lane, Suite D
Concord CA 94520
1-800-786-9907, +1-925-674-0783, +1-925-674-0821 (FAX)
Or via the Internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com.
Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp from:
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog
Cost per -RELEASE CD is $39.95 or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription.
FreeBSD SNAPshot CDs are $39.95 or $14.95 with a FreeBSD-SNAP subscription
(-RELEASE and -SNAP subscriptions are entirely separate). With a
subscription, you will automatically receive updates as they are released.
Your credit card will be billed when each disk is shipped and you may cancel
your subscription at any time without further obligation.
Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or Mexico
and $9.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American
Express or checks in U.S. Dollars and ship COD within the United
States. California residents please add 8.25% sales tax.
Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an
unconditional return policy.
4. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code.
-----------------------------------------------------------
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:
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.
Otherwise, for any questions or tech support issues, please send mail to:
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:
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!
5. Acknowledgements
-------------------
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
Everyone at Montana State University for their initial support.
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