RELEASE NOTES FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE version (alpha Architecture) Any installation failures or crashes should be reported by using the send-pr command (those preferring a Web-based interface can also see http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html). For information about FreeBSD and the layout of the 4.3-RELEASE directory (especially if you're installing from floppies!), see ABOUT.TXT. For installation instructions, see the INSTALL.TXT and HARDWARE.TXT files. Table of contents: ------------------ 1. What's new since 4.2-RELEASE 1.1 KERNEL CHANGES 1.2 SECURITY FIXES 1.3 USERLAND CHANGES 2. Supported Configurations 2.1 Disk Controllers 2.2 Ethernet cards 2.3 FDDI 2.4 ATM 2.5 Misc 3. Obtaining FreeBSD 3.1 FTP/Mail 3.2 CDROM 4. Upgrading from previous releases of FreeBSD 5. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code 6. Acknowledgments 1. What's new since 4.2-RELEASE ------------------------------- 1.1. KERNEL CHANGES ------------------- A bug in the machine-dependent code for the AlphaServer 1000 and 1000A has been fixed; it had caused only EV4-equipped AS1000 and EV5-equipped AS1000A systems to work. The API UP1100 mainboard has been verified to work correctly. The API CS20 1U high server has been verified to work correctly. AlphaServer 2100A ("Lynx") support has been added. The AlphaServer 4000 and 4100 refuse to boot from the FreeBSD install floppy or install CDROM. The workaround is to "dd" the 2.88MB floppy image onto a hard disk and boot the installer from it. Once sysinstall(8) is running, a normal installation can be performed. Similar problems have been observed on the AlphaServer 1200 and 8400. For AlphaServer 4100 adapter cards with PCI bridge chips might cause trouble. In addition, the capability of booting from an adapter might be influenced by the placement of the adapter card on a specific PCI hose. Please use 'send-pr' to report any problems you might encounter in this area. Write combining for crashdumps has been implemented. This feature is useful when write caching is disabled on both SCSI and IDE disks, where large memory dumps could take up to an hour to complete. The twe(4) driver for 3Ware Escalade controllers has been updated. The an(4) driver for Cisco Aironet cards now supports Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption, settable via ancontrol(8). The wi(4) and an(4) drivers now default to BSS (infrastructure) mode; previously the default was ad-hoc mode. The ray(4) driver, which supports the Webgear Aviator wireless network cards, has been committed. The operation of ray(4) interfaces can be modified by raycontrol(8). The bug that made certain CDROM drives fail to attach when connected to a SCSI card driven by 'isp' has been fixed. A bug in the ed(4) driver that could cause panics with very short packets and BPF or bridging active has been fixed. A bug in FFS that could cause superblock corruption on very large filesystems has been corrected. The ISO-9660 filesystem now has a hook that supports a loadable character conversion routine. The sysutils/cd9660_unicode port contains a set of common conversions. A new NFS hash function (based on the Fowler/Noll/Vo hash algorithm) has been implemented to improve NFS performance by increasing the efficiency of the nfsnode hash tables. bridge(4) and dummynet(4) have received some enhancements and bug fixes. The ahc(4) driver has been updated. Among various improvements are improved compatibility with chips in "RAID Port" mode and systems with AAA and ARO cards installed, as well as performance improvements. Some bugs were also fixed, including a rare hang on Ultra2/U160 controllers. The cd(4) driver now has support for write operations. This allows writing to DVD-RAM, PD and similar drives that probe as CD devices. Note that this change affects only random-access writeable devices, not sequential-only writeable devices such as CD-R drives, which are supported by cdrecord(1). The "make buildkernel" procedure has changed slightly. It now gets the name of the configuration(s) to build from the KERNCONF variable (KERNEL is still valid, but deprecated). The installed kernel name can be changed with the INSTKERNEL variable. The NO_KERNELCLEAN variable prevents cleaning of the kernel build directory (which is now done via "make clean", rather than "config -r"). kobj functionality has been merged from -CURRENT to better support sound drivers. Separate drivers for the SoundBlaster 8 and Soundblaster 16 now replace an older, unified driver. A driver for the ESS Maestro-3/Allegro has been added, however due to licensing restrictions, it cannot be compiled into the kernel. To use this driver, add the following line to /boot/loader.conf: maestro3_load="YES" The isp(4) driver has been updated. ipfilter has been updated to 3.4.16. ipfw(8) has a new feature ("me") that allows for packet matching on interfaces with dynamically-changing IP addresses. TCP has received some bug fixes for its delayed ACK behavior. TCP now supports the NewReno modification to the TCP Fast Recovery algorithm. This behavior can be controlled via the net.inet.tcp.newreno sysctl variable. TCP now uses a more aggressive timeout for initial SYN segments; this allows initial connection attempts to be dropped much faster. ICMP UNREACH_FILTER_PROHIB messages can now RST TCP connections in the SYN_SENT state if the correct sequence numbers are sent back, as controlled by the net.inet.tcp.icmp_may_rst sysctl. A new sysctl net.inet.ip.check_interface, which is off by default, causes IP to verify that an incoming packet arrives on an interface that has an address matching the packet's destination address. The ata(4) driver has been updated. To provide more flexible configuration, the various options for the ata(4) driver are now boot loader tunables, rather than kernel configure-time options. The ata(4) driver now supports ATA66 and ATA100 mode on Acer Alladin chipsets. kqueue(2) has been extended to the device layer, and has also received some bug fixes. The ida disk driver now has crashdump support. The mly(4) driver has received some changes in queueing, concurrency improvements, and stability fixes. Several minor bugs have been fixed in the VLAN networking code. Vinum has received some bugfixes. 1.2. SECURITY FIXES ------------------- Some fixes were applied to the Kerberos IV implementation related to environment variables, a possible buffer overrun, and overwriting ticket files. telnet(1) now does a better job of sanitizing its environment. Several vulnerabilities in procfs(4) were fixed (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-00:77). A bug in ipfw(8) and ipfw6(8) in which inbound TCP segments could incorrectly be treated as being part of an "established" connection has been fixed (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:08). A bug in crontab(8) that could allow users to read any file on the system in valid crontab(5) syntax has been fixed (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:09). A vulnerability in inetd(8) that could allow read-access to the initial 16 bytes of wheel-accessible files has been fixed (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:11). A bug in periodic(8) that used insecure temporary files has been corrected (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:12). To fix a remotely-exploitable buffer overflow, BIND has been updated to 8.2.3 (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:18). OpenSSH now has code to prevent (instead of just mitigating through connection limits) an attack that can lead to guessing the server key (not host key) by regenerating the server key when an RSA failure is detected (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:24). A bug in ICMP that could cause an attacker to disrupt TCP and UDP "sessions" has been corrected. A bug in timed(8), which caused it to crash if sent certain malformed packets, has been corrected (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:28). A bug in rwhod(8), which caused it to crash if sent certain malformed packets, has been corrected (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:29). A security hole in FreeBSD's FFS and EXT2FS implementations, which allowed a race condition that could cause users to have unauthorized access to data, has been fixed (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:30). A remotely-exploitable vulnerability in ntpd(8) has been closed (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:31). A security hole in IPFilter's fragment cache has been closed (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:32). Buffer overflows in glob(3), which could cause arbitrary code to be run on an FTP server, have been closed. In addition, to prevent some forms of DOS attacks, glob(3) now allows specification of a limit on the number of pathname matches it will return. ftpd(8) now uses this feature (see security advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:33). Initial sequence numbers in TCP are more thoroughly randomized, using an algorithm obtained from OpenBSD. A number of programs have had output formatting strings corrected so as to reduce the risk of vulnerabilities. A number of programs that use temporary files now do so more securely. 1.3. USERLAND CHANGES --------------------- newfs(1) now implements write combining, which can make creation of new filesystems up to seven times faster. A number of buffer overflows in config(8) have been fixed. Binutils have been upgraded to 2.10.1. OpenSSL has been upgraded to 0.9.6. OpenSSL now has support for machine-dependent ASM optimizations, activated by the new CPUTYPE/MACHINE_CPU Makefile variables. file(1) has been contribify-ed, and imported as version 3.33. groff(1) and its related utilities have been updated to FSF version 1.16.1. indent(1) has gained some new formatting options. sysinstall(8) now uses some more intuitive defaults thanks to some new dialog support functions. sysinstall(8) now properly preserves /etc/mail during a binary upgrade. The default root partition in sysinstall(8) is now 110MB. rm(1) -v now displays the entire pathname of a file being removed. lpr(1), lpq(1), and lpd(8) have received a few minor enhancements. OpenSSH has been upgraded to 2.3.0. This version adds support for the Rijndael encryption algorithm. Kerberos compatability has been added to OpenSSH. OpenSSH has been modified to be more resistant to traffic analysis by requiring that "non-echoed" characters are still echoed back in a null packet, as well as by padding passwords sent so as not to hint at password lengths. syslogd(8) now supports a "LOG_CONSOLE" facility (disabled by default), which can be used to log /dev/console output. cdcontrol(1) now uses the CDROM environment variable to pick a default device. All packages and ports now contain an "origin" directive, which makes it easier for programs like pkg_version(1) to determine the directory from which a package was built. pkg_info(1) can now accept a -g flag for verifying an installed package against its recorded checksums (to see if it's been modified post-installation). Naturally, this mechanism is only as secure as the contents of /var/db/pkg if it's to be used for auditing purposes. pkg_create(1) and pkg_add(1) can now work with packages that have been compressed using bzip2(1). pkg_add(1) will use the PACKAGEROOT environment variable to determine a mirror site for new packages. pkg_info(1) now supports globbing against names of installed packages. The -G option disables this behavior, and the -x option causes regular expression matching instead of shell globbing. pkg_sign(1) and pkg_check(1) have been added to digitally sign and verify the signatures on binary package files. pkg_update(1), a utility to update installed packages and update their dependencies, has been added. pkg_delete(1) now can perform glob/regexp matching of package names. In addition, it supports the -a option for removing all packages and the -i option for rm(1)-style interactive confirmation. pkg_create(1) now records dependencies in dependency order rather than in the order specified on the command line. This improves the functioning of "pkg_add -r". pkg_version(1) now has a version number comparison routine that corresponds to the Porters Handbook. It also has a -t option for testing address comparisons. awk has been upgraded from gawk-3.0.4 to gawk-3.0.6. This fixes a number of non-critical bugs and includes a few performance tweaks. Shortly after the receipt of a SIGINFO signal (normally control-T from the controlling tty), fsck(8) will now output a line indicating the current phase number and progress information relevant to the current phase. pwd(1) can now double as realpath(1), a program to resolve pathnames to their underlying physical paths. gcc(1) has been updated to 2.95.3. gcc(1) now uses a unified libgcc rather than a separate one for threaded and non-threaded programs. /usr/lib/libgcc_r.a can be removed. config(8) is now better about converting various warnings that should have been errors into actual fatal errors with an exit code. This ensures that that 'make buildkernel' doesn't quietly ignore them and build a bogus kernel without a human to read the errors. In /etc/ssh/sshd_config, the ConnectionsPerPeriod parameter has been deprecated in favor of MaxStartups. find(1) now takes the -empty flag, which returns true if a file or directory is empty. find(1) now takes the -iname and -ipath primaries for case-insensitive matches, and the -regexp and -iregexp primaries for regular-expression matches. The -E flag now enables extended regular expressions. ldconfig(8) now checks directory ownerships and permissions for greater security; these checks can be disabled with the -i flag. sendmail(8) and associated utilities upgraded from version 8.11.1 to version 8.11.3. See /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES for more information. New make.conf options: SENDMAIL_MC and SENDMAIL_ADDITIONAL_MC. See /etc/defaults/make.conf for more information. The Makefile in /etc/mail now supports: the new SENDMAIL_MC make.conf option; the ability to build .cf files from .mc files; generalized map rebuilding; rebuilding the aliases file; and the ability to stop, start, and restart sendmail. vidcontrol(1) now accepts a -g parameter to select custom text geometry in the VESA_800x600 raster text mode. The rfork_thread(3) library call has been added as a helper function to rfork(2). Using this function should avoid the need to implement complex stack swap code. The compat3x distribution has been updated to include libraries present in FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE. gperf has been updated to 2.7.2. Catching up with most other network utilities in the base system, lpr(1), lpd(8), syslogd(8), and logger(1) are now all IPv6-capable. When requested to delete multiple packages, pkg_delete(1) will now attempt to remove them in dependency order rather than the order specified on the command line. burncd(8) now supports a -m option for multisession mode (the default behavior now is to close disks as single-session). A -l option to take a list of image files from a filename was also added; '-' can be used as a filename for stdin. tar(1) now supports the TAR_RSH variable, principally to enable the use of ssh(1) as a transport. Bugs in make(1), among which include broken null suffix behavior, bad assumptions about current directory permissions, and potential buffer overflows, have been fixed. The new CPUTYPE make.conf variable controls the compilation of processor-specific optimizations in various pieces of code such as OpenSSL. Boot-time syscons configuration was moved to a machine-independent rc.syscons. login(1) now exports environment variables set by PAM modules. ipfstat(8) now supports the -t option to turn on a top(1)-like display. tftpd(8) now takes the -c and -C options, which allow the server to chroot(2) based on the IP address of the connecting client. tftp(1) and tftpd(8) can now transfer files larger than 65535 blocks. The lastlogin(1) utility, which prints the last login time of each user, has been imported from NetBSD. /usr/src/share/examples/BSD_daemon/ now contains a scalable Beastie graphic. bc has been updated from 1.04 to 1.06. savecore(8) now supports a -k option to prevent clearing a crash dump after saving it. It also attempts to avoid writing large stretches of zeros to crash dump files to save space and time. tcsh has been updated to version 6.10. The default value for the CVS_RSH variable (used by cvs(1)) is now ssh, rather than rsh. disklabel(8) now supports partition sizes expressed in kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes, in addition to sectors. Kerberos IV has been updated to 1.0.5. Heimdal has been updated to 0.3e. dump(8) now supports inheritance of the "nodump" flag down a hierarchy. The ISC DHCP client has been updated to 2.0pl5. stty(1) now has support for an "erase2" control character, so that both "delete" and "backspace" can be used to erase characters. split(1) now has the ability to split a file longer than 2GB. units(1) has received some updates and bugfixes. netstat(1) now keeps track of input and output packets on a per-address basis for each interface. netstat(1) now has a -W flag that tells it not to truncate addresses, even if they're too long for the column they're printed in. sockstat(1) now has -c and -l flags for listing connected and listening sockets, respectively. Many manual pages were improved, both in terms of their formatting markup and in their content. The dreaded 'going nowhere without my init' bug that manifested itself while installing on hardware that had labeled disks connected (e.g. with Tru64 on it) has been fixed. "lprm -" now works for remote printer queues. mergemaster(8) now sources an /etc/mergemaster.rc file and also prompts the user to run recommended commands (such as "newaliases") as needed. ftpd(8) now supports a -r flag for read-only mode and a -E flag to disable EPSV. It also has some fixes to reduce information leakage and the ability to specify compile-time port ranges. rc(8) now has an framework for handling dependencies between rc.conf(5) variables. The default TCP port range used by libfetch for passive FTP retrievals has changed; this affects the behavior of fetch(1), which has gained the -U option to restore the old behavior. portmap(8) now takes a -h option to indicate the IP addresses to which it should bind. This option may be specified multiple times and is typically necessary for multi-homed hosts. GNATS has been updated to 3.113. tail(1) now has the ability to work on files longer than 2GB. 2. Supported Configurations --------------------------- For an extensive overview of supported Alpha machines/mainboards please refer to the HARDWARE.TXT file. Information in that file reflects the latest state of affairs for Alpha machines/mainboards. 2.1. Disk Controllers --------------------- IDE ATA Adaptec AIC7850, AIC7860, AIC7880, AIC789x, on-board SCSI controllers. AdvanSys SCSI controllers (all models). BusLogic MultiMaster controllers: [ Please note that BusLogic/Mylex "Flashpoint" adapters are NOT yet supported ] BusLogic MultiMaster "W" Series Host Adapters: BT-948, BT-958, BT-958D BusLogic MultiMaster "C" Series Host Adapters: BT-946C, BT-956C, BT-956CD, BT-445C, BT-747C, BT-757C, BT-757CD, BT-545C, BT-540CF BusLogic MultiMaster "S" Series Host Adapters: BT-445S, BT-747S, BT-747D, BT-757S, BT-757D, BT-545S, BT-542D, BT-742A, BT-542B BusLogic MultiMaster "A" Series Host Adapters: BT-742A, BT-542B AMI FastDisk controllers that are true BusLogic MultiMaster clones are also supported. DPT SmartCACHE Plus, SmartCACHE III, SmartRAID III, SmartCACHE IV and SmartRAID IV SCSI/RAID controllers are supported. The DPT SmartRAID/CACHE V is not yet supported. AMI MegaRAID Express and Enterprise family RAID controllers: MegaRAID Series 418 MegaRAID Enterprise 1200 (Series 428) MegaRAID Enterprise 1300 (Series 434) MegaRAID Enterprise 1400 (Series 438) MegaRAID Enterprise 1500 (Series 467) MegaRAID Enterprise 1600 (Series 471) MegaRAID Elite 1500 (Series 467) MegaRAID Elite 1600 (Series 493) MegaRAID Express 100 (Series 466WS) MegaRAID Express 200 (Series 466) MegaRAID Express 300 (Series 490) MegaRAID Express 500 (Series 475) Dell PERC Dell PERC 2/SC Dell PERC 2/DC Dell PERC 3/DCL HP NetRAID-1si HP NetRAID-3si HP Embedded NetRAID Booting from these controllers is supported, but not possible due to SRM limitations. Mylex DAC960 and DAC1100 RAID controllers with 2.x, 3.x, 4.x and 5.x firmware: DAC960P DAC960PD DAC960PDU DAC960PL DAC960PJ DAC960PG AcceleRAID 150 AcceleRAID 250 eXtremeRAID 1100 This list includes controllers sold by Digital/Compaq in Alpha systems in the StorageWorks family, eg. KZPSC, KZPAC. Booting from these controllers is supported when recognised by SRM (typically Digital/ Compaq models only, and only in systems where they are supported). EISA adapters like the StorageWorks KZESC are not supported. SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C810a, 53C815, 53C820, 53C825a, 53C860, 53C875, 53C875j, 53C885, 53C895 and 53C896 PCI SCSI controllers: ASUS SC-200 Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants) Diamond FirePort (all) NCR cards (all) Symbios cards (all) Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F Tyan S1365 Symbios boot support depends on your SRM / machine type. Check HARDWARE.TXT too. Qlogic Controllers and variants: Qlogic 1020, 1040 SCSI and Ultra SCSI host adapters Qlogic 1240 dual Ultra SCSI controllers Qlogic 1080 Ultra2 LVD and 1280 Dual Ultra2 LVD controllers Qlogic 12160 Ultra3 LVD controllers Qlogic 2100 and Qlogic 2200 Fibre Channel SCSI controllers Performance Technology SBS440 ISP1000 variants Performance Technology SBS450 ISP1040 variants Performance Technology SBS470 ISP2100 variants Antares Microsystems P-0033 ISP2100 variants With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including hard disks, optical disks, tape drives (including DAT and 8mm Exabyte), medium changers, processor target devices and CDROM drives. WORM devices that support CDROM commands are supported for read-only access by the CDROM driver. WORM/CD-R/CD-RW writing support is provided by cdrecord, which is in the ports tree. The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time: (cd) SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and SoundBlaster SCSI) (acd) ATAPI IDE interface 2.2. Ethernet cards ------------------- Adaptec Duralink PCI Fast Ethernet adapters based on the Adaptec AIC-6915 Fast Ethernet controller chip, including the following: ANA-62011 64-bit single port 10/100baseTX adapter ANA-62022 64-bit dual port 10/100baseTX adapter ANA-62044 64-bit quad port 10/100baseTX adapter ANA-69011 32-bit single port 10/100baseTX adapter ANA-62020 64-bit single port 100baseFX adapter Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards Alteon Networks PCI Gigabit Ethernet NICs based on the Tigon 1 and Tigon 2 chipsets, including the following: 3Com 3c985-SX (Tigon 1 and 2) Alteon AceNIC 1000baseSX(Tigon 1 and 2) Alteon AceNIC 1000baseT (Tigon 2) DEC/Compaq EtherWORKS 1000 Farallon PN9000SX NEC Gigabit Ethernet Netgear GA620 (Tigon 2) Netgear GA620T (Tigon 2, 1000baseT) Silicon Graphics Gigabit Ethernet AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974) AMD PCnet/FAST, PCnet/FAST+, PCnet/FAST III, PCnet/PRO, PCnet/Home, and HomePNA. 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. RealTek 8129/8139 Fast Ethernet NICs including the following: Allied Telesyn AT2550 Allied Telesyn AT2500TX Genius GF100TXR (RTL8139) NDC Communications NE100TX-E OvisLink LEF-8129TX OvisLink LEF-8139TX Netronix Inc. EA-1210 NetEther 10/100 KTX-9130TX 10/100 Fast Ethernet Accton "Cheetah" EN1207D (MPX 5030/5038; RealTek 8139 clone) SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI 1211-TX Lite-On 82c168/82c169 PNIC Fast Ethernet NICs including the following: LinkSys EtherFast LNE100TX NetGear FA310-TX Rev. D1 Matrox FastNIC 10/100 Kingston KNE110TX Macronix 98713, 98713A, 98715, 98715A and 98725 Fast Ethernet NICs Accton EN1217 (98715A) Adico AE310TX (98715A) Compex RL100-TX CNet Pro120A (98713 or 98713A) CNet Pro120B (98715) NDC Communications SFA100A (98713A) SVEC PN102TX (98713) Macronix/Lite-On PNIC II LC82C115 Fast Ethernet NICs including the following: LinkSys EtherFast LNE100TX Version 2 Winbond W89C840F Fast Ethernet NICs including the following: Trendware TE100-PCIE VIA Technologies VT3043 "Rhine I" and VT86C100A "Rhine II" Fast Ethernet NICs including the following: Hawking Technologies PN102TX D-Link DFE-530TX AOpen/Acer ALN-320 Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900 and SiS 7016 PCI Fast Ethernet NICs Sundance Technologies ST201 PCI Fast Ethernet NICs including the following: D-Link DFE-550TX SysKonnect SK-984x PCI Gigabit Ethernet cards including the following: SK-9841 1000baseLX single mode fiber, single port SK-9842 1000baseSX multimode fiber, single port SK-9843 1000baseLX single mode fiber, dual port SK-9844 1000baseSX multimode fiber, dual port 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 Racore 8165 10/100baseTX Racore 8148 10baseT/100baseTX/100baseFX multi-personality ADMtek Inc. AL981-based PCI Fast Ethernet NICs ADMtek Inc. AN985-based PCI Fast Ethernet NICs ADMtek Inc. AN986-based USB Ethernet NICs including the following: LinkSys USB100TX Billionton USB100 Melco Inc. LUA-TX D-Link DSB-650TX SMC 2202USB CATC USB-EL1210A-based USB Ethernet NICs including the following: CATC Netmate CATC Netmate II Belkin F5U111 Kawasaki LSI KU5KUSB101B-based USB Ethernet NICs including the following: LinkSys USB10T Entrega NET-USB-E45 Peracom USB Ethernet Adapter 3Com 3c19250 ADS Technologies USB-10BT ATen UC10T Netgear EA101 D-Link DSB-650 SMC 2102USB SMC 2104USB Corega USB-T ASIX Electronics AX88140A PCI NICs, including the following: Alfa Inc. GFC2204 CNet Pro110B 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/Intel 21143 based Fast Ethernet NICs, including the following: DEC DE500-BA Compaq Presario 7900 series built-in Ethernet D-Link DFE-570TX Kingston KNE100TX LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 Instant GigaDrive built-in Ethernet Davicom DM9100 and DM9102 PCI Fast Ethernet NICs, including the following: Jaton Corporation XpressNet Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A). Intel EtherExpress 16 Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit) Isolink 4110 (8 bit) 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/905C PCI (Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL 3Com 3c980/3c980B Fast Etherlink XL server adapter 3Com 3cSOHO100-TX OfficeConnect adapter Toshiba Ethernet cards Crystal Semiconductor CS89x0-based NICs, including: IBM Etherjet ISA 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. FDDI --------- - none (DEFPA is currently broken) 2.4. ATM -------- o ATM Host Interfaces - FORE Systems, Inc. PCA-200E ATM PCI Adapters - Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM PCI Adapters o ATM Signaling Protocols - The ATM Forum UNI 3.1 signaling protocol - The ATM Forum UNI 3.0 signaling protocol - The ATM Forum ILMI address registration - FORE Systems' proprietary SPANS signaling protocol - Permanent Virtual Channels (PVCs) o IETF "Classical IP and ARP over ATM" model - RFC 1483, "Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5" - RFC 1577, "Classical IP and ARP over ATM" - RFC 1626, "Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5" - RFC 1755, "ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM" - RFC 2225, "Classical IP and ARP over ATM" - RFC 2334, "Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP)" - Internet Draft draft-ietf-ion-scsp-atmarp-00.txt, "A Distributed ATMARP Service Using SCSP" o ATM Sockets interface 2.5. 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. Specialix SI/XIO/SX ISA, PCI serial expansion cards/modules. Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound and Roland MPU-401 sound cards. (snd driver) Advance Asound 100, 110 and Logic ALS120 Crystal Semiconductor CS461x/462x/428x ENSONIQ AudioPCI ES1370/1371 ESS ES1868, ES1869, ES1879 and ES1888 ESS Maestro-1, Maestro-2, and Maestro-2E ForteMedia fm801 Gravis UltraSound MAX/PnP MSS/WSS Compatible DSPs NeoMagic 256AV/ZX OPTi 931/82C931 SoundBlaster, Soundblaster Pro, Soundblaster AWE-32, Soundblaster AWE-64 Trident 4DWave DX/NX VIA Technologies VT82C686A Yamaha DS1 and DS1e (newpcm driver) 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 / Bt878 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. Xilinx XC6200 based reconfigurable hardware cards compatible with the HOT1 from Virtual Computers (www.vcc.com) Support for Dave Mills experimental Loran-C receiver. Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 ISA standard speed (2Mbps) and turbo speed (6Mbps) wireless network adapters and workalikes (NCR WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11, Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS). Note: the ISA versions of these adapters are actually PCMCIA cards combined with an ISA to PCMCIA bridge card, so both kinds of devices work with the same driver. Aironet 4500/4800 series 802.11 wireless adapters. The PCI and ISA models are supported for the Alpha architecture. 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 4.x-RELEASE and 3.x-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from: BSDi / Walnut Creek CDROM 4041 Pike Lane, Suite D Concord CA 94520 USA +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, when available, 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. Upgrading from previous releases of FreeBSD ---------------------------------------------- If you're upgrading from a previous release of FreeBSD, most likely it's 3.0 and there may be some issues affecting you, depending of course on your chosen method of upgrading. There are two popular ways of upgrading FreeBSD distributions: o Using sources, via /usr/src o Using sysinstall's (binary) upgrade option. Please read the UPGRADE.TXT file for more information, preferably before beginning an upgrade. 5. 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 If you're tracking the -stable development efforts, you should definitely join the -stable mailing list, in order to keep abreast of recent developments and changes that may affect the way you use and maintain the system: freebsd-stable@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-alpha@FreeBSD.org If it is not strictly Alpha related but applies to both the Intel and the Alpha port of FreeBSD please send your 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! 6. Acknowledgments ------------------ FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many hundreds, if not thousands, 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 thanks also go to the many thousands of FreeBSD users and testers all over the world, without whom this release simply would not have been possible. The FreeBSD Project $FreeBSD$