NetBSD/i386 1.2

NetBSD/i386 1.2 was the fifth formal release of NetBSD/i386.

Charles Hannum and Frank van der Linden were the maintainers of NetBSD/i386 at the time of the 1.2 release.

Supported Hardware

NetBSD/i386 1.2 runs on ISA (AT-Bus), EISA, PCI, and VL-bus systems with 386-family processors, with or without math coprocessors. It does NOT support MCA systems, such as some IBM PS/2 systems. The minimal configuration is said to require 4M of RAM and 50M of disk space, though we do not know of anyone running with a system quite this minimal today. To install the entire system requires much more disk space, and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended. (4M of RAM will actually allow you to run X and/or compile, but it won't be speedy. Note that until you have around 16M of RAM, getting more RAM is more important than getting a faster CPU.) Devices supported by NetBSD/i386 1.2 include:

• Floppy controllers.
  • MFM, ESDI, IDE, and RLL hard disk controllers.
• SCSI host adapters:
  • Adaptec AHA-154xA, -B, -C, and -CF
  • Adaptec AHA-174x
  • Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, including the Adaptec AHA-152x and the SoundBlaster SCSI host adapter. (Note that you cannot boot from these boards if they do not have a boot ROM; only the AHA-152x and motherboards using this chip are likely to be bootable, consequently.)
  • Adaptec AHA-2x4x[U][W] cards and some onboard PCI designs using the AIC78X0 chip. There is a known problem using this driver with AHA-2742 cards or AIC7770 or AIC78[56]0 based embedded designs and multiple targets, due to resource contention which is not handled well by NetBSD's higher-level SCSI subsystem.
  • Adaptec AHA-3940[U][W] cards [b]
  • Buslogic 54x (Adaptec AHA-154x clones)
  • BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx (But not the new "FlashPoint" series of BusLogic SCSI adapters)
  • Seagate/Future Domain ISA SCSI adapter cards, including
    • ST01/02
    • Future Domain TMC-885
    • Future Domain TMC-950
  • Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx-based PCI SCSI host adapters:
    • Acculogic PCIpport
    • ASUS SC-200 (requires NCR BIOS on motherboard)
    • ASUS SP3[G] motherboard onboard SCSI
    • DEC Celebris XL/590 onboard SCSI
    • Lomas Data SCSI adapters
    • NCR/SYM 8125 (and its many clones; be careful, some of these cards have a jumper to set the PCI interrupt; leave it on INT A!)
    • Promise DC540 (a particularly common OEM model of the SYM 8125)
    • Tyan Yorktown
  • Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f
  • Western Digital WD7000 SCSI host adapters (ISA cards only)
• MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters. (Note that not all of the display adapters NetBSD/i386 can work with are supported by X. See the XFree86 FAQ for more information.)
• Serial ports:
  • 8250/16450-based ports
  • 16550/16650/16750-based ports
  • AST-style 4-port serial cards
  • BOCA 8-port serial cards
  • IBM PC-RT 4-port serial cards
  • Single-port Hayes ESP serial cards
• Parallel ports.
• Ethernet adapters:
  • AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA Ethernet adapters, including:
    • Novell NE1500T
    • Novell NE2100
    • Kingston 21xx
  • AMD PCnet-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
    • Addtron AE-350
    • BOCALANcard/PCI
    • SVEC FD0455
    • X/Lan Add-On Adapter
    • IBM #13H9237 PCI Ethernet Adapter
  • AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
  • 3COM 3c501
  • 3COM 3c503
  • 3COM 3c505
  • 3COM 3c507
  • 3COM 3c509, 3c579, and 3c59X
  • Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
    • Cogent EM1X0, EM960 (a.k.a. Adaptec ANA-69XX)
    • Cogent EM964 [b]
    • Cogent EM4XX [b]
    • Compex Readylink PCI
    • DANPEX EN-9400P3
    • Digital Celebris GL, GLST on-board ethernet
    • Digital (DEC) PCI Ethernet/Fast Ethernet adapters (all)
    • JCIS Condor JC1260
    • Linksys PCI Fast Ethernet
    • SMC EtherPower 10, 10/100 (PCI only!)
    • SMC EtherPower^2 [b]
    • SVEC PN0455
    • SVEC FD1000-TP
    • Znyx ZX34X
  • BICC Isolan (not recently tested)
  • Intel EtherExpress 16
  • Intel EtherExpress PRO/10
  • SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards
  • SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards)
  • Novell NE1000, NE2000
• FDDI adapters:
  • Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters
  • Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adapters
• Tape drives:
  • Most SCSI tape drives
  • QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek-compatible) tape drives
• CD-ROM drives:
  • Non-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM drives. (Note: The Mitsumi driver device probe is known to cause some trouble with devices configured at the same address)
  • Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
• Mice:
  • "Logitech"-style bus mice
  • "Microsoft"-style bus mice
  • "PS/2"-style mice
  • Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
• Sound Cards:
  • SoundBlaster
  • Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max (But not Gravis Ultrasound Plug&Play)
  • Personal Sound System
  • Windows Sound System
  • ProAudio Spectrum

Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions about:

• AMD PCscsi SCSI host adapters (though the PCnet portion of the PCnet-SCSI works fine)
• APM power management -- if your system supports it, turn it off!
• Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters.
• Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems. (Though they should run fine using one processor only.)
• NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
• PCI WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
• PCMCIA ("PC Card") devices, including some miniature "IDE" hard disks.
• QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives. (Those are the tape drives that connect to the floppy disk controller.)

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