OpenBSD/i386

OpenBSD/i386 runs on the standard PC's and clones, with a wide variety of processors, I/O bus architectures and peripherals supported.

Table of contents

• History of the port
• Current status
• Supported hardware
• Installation with other operating systems
• Getting and installing OpenBSD/i386

History:

The OpenBSD/i386 port has been present since the inception of the project. Over the years, more and more hardware support has been written specifically for OpenBSD (such as the cryptographic accelerator drivers), or adapted from FreeBSD and NetBSD.

Current status:

It can be expected to install and run with minimal difficulty on most current hardware. Machines using custom BIOS (such as older proprietary PC's, laptops, and some specialized server machines) may cause problems.

X Window System support is available for most graphics cards, using the X.Org server. As with other free operating systems it is highly recommended that Nvidia cards are avoided since this vendor continues to show tremendous resistance towards releasing information that would allow X.Org to support their hardware properly.

Supported hardware:

The list of supported hardware is relevant to OpenBSD-current. It will differ slightly from the support provided in the latest release version.

Processors

All CPUs compatible with the Intel 80486 or better, with Intel-compatible hardware floating point support should work.

SMP support

Buses

• All standard ISA, EISA, VLB, and PCI bus, including:
  • Intel 450GX/KX
  • Intel 450NX
  • ServerWorks chipset
  (We just had to mention those last three, since they are the hardest to support).
• 16-Bit PCMCIA PC Cards
• 32-Bit CardBus PC Cards
• Universal Serial Bus (USB)
• Inter IC (I2C) bus

The MCA bus found in various official IBM PCs is not supported.

Bus interfaces

• Standard PCI-PCI bridges, including PCI expansion backplanes (ppb)
• YENTA-compatible PCI-CardBus bridges (cbb)

Entropy sources

• Interrupt latency collection from many devices.
• Intel 82802 random number generator found on i810, i815, i820, i840, i850 and i860 based systems.

Disk Controllers

• Floppy controllers
• ISA MFM, ESDI, IDE, and RLL hard disk controllers

PCI IDE and Serial ATA Controllers (pciide)

• Acard ATP850U, ATP860, ATP860-A, ATP865-A, ATP865-R
• Acer Labs M5229
• Adaptec AAR-1210SA
• Advanced Micro Devices AMD-756, AMD-766, AMD-768, AMD-8111
• CMD Tech PCI0640, PCI0643, PCI0646, PCI0648, PCI0649, PCI0680
• Contaq Microsystems/Cypress CY82C693
• HighPoint HPT366, HPT370, HPT372, HPT302, HPT371, HPT374
• Intel PIIX, PIIX3, and PIIX4
• Intel 82801 (ICH/ICH0/ICH2/ICH3/ICH4/ICH4-M/ICH5/ICH5R/ICH6/ICH6M/ICH6R/ICH7)
• Intel 6300ESB
• ITE IT8212F
• National Semiconductor PC87415
• National Semiconductor SCx200 (found on SC1100 SoC)
• NVIDIA nForce/nForce2/nForce2-400/nForce3/nForce3-250/nForce4
• Promise PDC20246, PDC20262, PDC20265, PDC20267, PDC20268, PDC20268R, PDC20269, PDC20271, PDC20275, PDC20276, PDC20277, PDC20318, PDC20319, PDC20371, PDC20375, PDC20376, PDC20377, PDC20378, PDC20379
• ServerWorks OSB4, CSB5, CSB6 (including support for the third channel)
• Silicon Image SiI3112 (including ATI IXP SATA), SiI3512, SiI3114
• Silicon Integrated System 180, 181, 5513 (5597/5598), 540, 550, 620, 630, 630S, 633, 635, 640, 645, 645DX, 648, 650, 651, 652, 655, 658, 730, 733, 735, 740, 745, 746, 748, 750, 751, 752, 755, 962, 963
• VIA Technologies VT82C586/A/B, VT82C596A/B, VT82C686A/B, VT8231, VT8366, VT8233, VT8235, VT8237, VT8251, VT6410

Some of these chips are sometimes used in low-cost software-based RAID systems. This mode of operation is not supported in OpenBSD.

SCSI Host Adapters

• Adaptec AHA-1540, AHA-154xA, AHA-154xB, AHA-1542C, AHA-1542CF, AHA-1542CP, AHA-1640 (aha)^{(B) (C)}
• Adaptec AHA-174x (ahb)^{(B) (C)}
• Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based host adapters including the Adaptec AHA-152x and various SoundBlaster cards (Note that you cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards unless the optional boot ROM has been installed) (aic)^(B),
• Adaptec AIC-7770, AIC-7850, AIC-7860, AIC-7870, AIC-7880, AIC-7890, AIC-7891, AIC-7892, AIC-7895, AIC-7896, AIC-7897 and AIC-7899 based host adapters (ahc)^{(B) (C)} including the Adaptec cards
  • AHA-274X[W,T]
  • AHA-284X
  • AHA-2910, AHA-2915
  • AHA-2920
  • AHA-2930[C,U2]
  • AHA-2940[J,N,U,AU,UW,UW Dual,UW Pro,U2W,U2B]
  • AHA-2950[U2W,U2B]
  • AHA-3940[U,AU,UW,AUW,U2W]
  • AHA-3950U2
  • AHA-3960
  • AHA-3985
  • AHA-4944UW
  • AHA-19160B
  • AHA-29160[B,N]
  • AHA-39160
• Adaptec AIC-7901, AIC-7901A and AIC-7902 based host adapters (ahd)^{(A) (C)} including the Adaptec cards
  • AHA-29320
  • AHA-39320
• AdvanSys "U", "UW", "U2W" and "U160" PCI host adapters including the ABP940U[AW], ASB3940U[AW]-00, ASB3940U2W-00 and ASB3950U160 (adw)^{(A) (C)} and (adv)^{(B) (C)}
• AMD Am53c974 PCscsi-PCI host adapters including the Tekram DC-390 (pcscp)^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Buslogic BT-54x (Adaptec AHA-154x clones) (aha)^{(B) (C)}
• BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx host adapters, but not the new "FlashPoint" series (bha)^{(B) (C)}
• Initio INIC-940 and INIC-950 based PCI host adapters including the Initio INI-9090U and INI-9100U/UW, Iwill 2935UW, and DTC Domex 3194U Plus (iha)^{(A) (C)}
• LSI Logic Fusion-MPT (Symbios Logic/NCR) (mpi)^{(A) (C)}
  • LSI53C1020, LSI53C1020A, LSI53C1030, LSI53C1030T, LSI53C1035,
  • LSIFC909, LSIFC919, LSIFC919X, LSIFC929, LSIFC929X, LSIFC949, LSIFC949X,
  • LSISAS1064, LSISAS1064E, LSISAS1068, LSISAS1068E,
  • LSISAS8208ELP, LSISAS8208XLP
• These chipsets can be found on the following controllers:
  • Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card, Fibre Channel PCI-X Card
  • Dell PERC 4/im, SAS 5/E, SAS 5/i, SAS 5/iR
  • Hewlett-Packard 8 Internal Port SAS Host Bus Adapter with RAID,
  • A7173A, AB290A
  • LSI Logic LSI20320-R, LSI21320-IS, LSI21320-R, LSI22320-R,
  • LSI40919H, LSI40919LH, LSI40919LO, LSI40919O, LSI40929H,
  • LSI40929LH, LSI40929LO, LSI40929O, LSI7102XP, LSI7202CP-LC,
  • LSI7202XP, LSI7402XP, LSI7104XP-LC, LSI7204XP-LC, LSI7404XP-LC,
  • LSISAS3041E-R, LSISAS3041X-R, LSISAS3080X-R, LSISAS3442E-R,
  • LSISAS3442X, LSISAS3442X-R, LSISAS3800X, LSIU320
• The LSI Logic LSI53C1030 is emulated in the following products:
  • VMware ESX Server 2.0 and higher
  • GSX Server 3.0 and higher
  • Player, Server, Workstation 4.5 and higher
• LSI Logic LSISAS2008 Fusion-MPT II (mpii)^{(A) (B) (C)}
• QLogic PCI host adapters (isp)^{(A) (C)}
• Seagate/Future Domain ISA host adapters (sea)^{(A) (B) (C)} including:
  • ST01/02
  • Future Domain TMC-885
  • Future Domain TMC-950
• Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx, 53C1010 and 53C1510D-based PCI host adapters including generic cards, old ASUS cards, the DTC-3130 series, and Diamond Fireport series (siop)^{(B) (C)}
• Tekram DC-300B and DC-320E (Adaptec AHA-154x clones) (aha)^{(B) (C)}
• Tekram DC-315U and DC-395U/UW/F TRM-S1040 based PCI host adapters (trm)^{(A) (C)}
• Ultrastor 14f, 24f, and 34f (uha)^{(A) (C)}
• WD-7000 host adapters (wds)^{(A) (B) (C)}

RAID and Cache Controllers

• ICP-Vortex and Intel GDT series (gdt) ^{(A) (C)}
• Adaptec FSA-based RAID controllers (aac), including: ^(*)
  Note: In the past years Adaptec has lied to us repeatedly about forthcoming documentation which would have allowed us to stabilize, improve and manage RAID support for these (rather buggy) raid controllers.
  As a result, we do not recommend the Adaptec cards for use.
  • Adaptec AAC-2622, AAC-364, AAC-3642, 2130S, 2200S, 2230SLP, 2410SA, 2610SA, 2810SA, 21610SA
  • Dell CERC-SATA, PERC 320/DC
  • Dell PERC 2/QC, PERC 2/Si, PERC 3/Si, PERC 3/D
  • HP NetRaid-4M
  • IBM ServeRAID-8i/8k/8s
• American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID controllers in "Mass Storage" mode (ami), including: ^{(A) (C)}
  • ACER MegaRAID ROMB-2E
  • Dell CERC-PATA, PERC 2/DC, PERC 3/DC, PERC 3/DCL, PERC 3/QC, PERC 3/SC, PERC 4/DC, PERC 4/Di, PERC 4/SC, PERC 4e/DC, PERC 4e/Di, PERC 4e/SC, PERC 4e/Si
  • FSC MegaRAID PCI Express ROMB
  • Hewlett-Packard 438, 466, and T[567]
  • Intel RAID Controller SROMBU42E, SRCU42X, SRCU42E, SRCU41L, SRCS16, SRCS28X, SRCZCRX
  • LSI/AMI MegaRAID, MegaRAID 320-0, MegaRAID 320-1, MegaRAID 320-2, MegaRAID 320-1E, MegaRAID 320-2E, MegaRAID 320-0X, MegaRAID 320-2X, MegaRAID 320-4X, MegaRAID i4
  • LSI/Symbios 523 SATA, MegaRAID 150-4, MegaRAID 150-6, MegaRAID 300-4x, MegaRAID 300-8x
  • NEC MegaRAID PCI Express ROMB
• 3ware Escalade 3W-5x00, 3W-6x00 and 3W-7x00 series (twe) ^{(A) (C)}
• Compaq Smart ARRAY 2*, 3* and 4* RAID controllers (cac), including: ^{(A) (C)}
  • Compaq Integrated Array
  • Compaq IAES
  • Compaq IDA, IDA-2
  • Compaq RAID LC2
  • Compaq Smart Array 221, 3100ES, 3200, 4200, 4250ES, 431
  • Compaq SMART, SMART-2/E, SMART-2/P, SMART-2DH, SMART-2SL
• Compaq and Hewlett-Packard Smart ARRAY 5* and 6* RAID controllers (ciss)
• DPT SmartCache and SmartRaid III/IV PCI/EISA adapters (dpt) ^{(A) (C)}
• I2O adapters (iop), including: ^{(A) (C)}
  • Adaptec SCSI RAID (ASR-2100S, ASR-2110S, ASR-3200S, etc.)
  • Adaptec ATA RAID (AAR-2400A)
  • other vendors' controllers supporting I2O, including Intel and Mylex, but these were not tested
• LSI/Dell MegaRAID SAS (mfi), including: ^{(A) (C)}
  • Dell PERC 5/e, PERC 5/i
  • Intel RAID Controller SRCSAS18E, SRCSAS144E
  • LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 8300XLP, MegaRAID SAS 8308ELP, MegaRAID SAS 8344ELP, MegaRAID SAS 8408E, MegaRAID SAS 8480E
• Areca Technology Corporation PCI-X and PCI Express Sata RAID controllers (arc), including: ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • ARC-1110 PCI-X 4 Port SATA RAID Controller
  • ARC-1110ML PCI-X 4 Port SATA RAID Controller
  • ARC-1120 PCI-X 8 Port SATA RAID Controller
  • ARC-1120ML PCI-X 8 Port SATA RAID Controller
  • ARC-1130 PCI-X 12 Port SATA RAID Controller
  • ARC-1130ML PCI-X 12 Port SATA RAID Controller
  • ARC-1160 PCI-X 16 Port SATA RAID Controller
  • ARC-1160ML PCI-X 16 Port SATA RAID Controller
  • ARC-1170 PCI-X 24 Port SATA RAID Controller
  • ARC-1210 PCI Express 4 Port SATA RAID Controller
  • ARC-1220 PCI Express 8 Port SATA RAID Controller
  • ARC-1230 PCI Express 12 Port SATA RAID Controller
  • ARC-1230ML PCI Express 12 Port SATA RAID Controller
  • ARC-1231ML PCI Express 12 Port SATA RAID Controller
  • ARC-1260 PCI Express 16 Port SATA RAID Controller
  • ARC-1260ML PCI Express 16 Port SATA RAID Controller
  • ARC-1261ML PCI Express 16 Port SATA RAID Controller
  • ARC-1280 PCI Express 24 Port SATA RAID Controller
  • ARC-1280ML PCI Express 24 Port SATA RAID Controller
• IBM SATA/SCSI ServeRAID controllers (ips), including: ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • ServeRAID 3H/3HB/3L
  • ServeRAID 4H/4L/4Lx/4M/4Mx
  • ServeRAID 5i/5i II
  • ServeRAID 6i/6M
  • ServeRAID 7k/7M/7t

CD-ROM and DVD-ROM Drives

• Mitsumi CD-ROM drives (mcd) ^(*) [Note: The Mitsumi driver device probe is known to cause trouble with several devices!]
• Most SCSI CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD and DVD-RW drives. (cd)
• Most ATAPI (IDE) CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD and DVD-RW drives. (cd)

Sony and Panasonic proprietary CD-ROM interfaces are not supported.

Tape Drives

• Most SCSI tape drives (st)
• Most SCSI tape changers (ch) ^(G)

Display Adapters

• MDA, CGA, EGA, and HGC display adapters (pcdisplay).
• VGA-compatible and SVGA display adapters (including PCI and AGP cards) (vga).

Note that not all of the display adapters OpenBSD/i386 supports can be used under the X Window System.

Serial Ports

• 8250/16450-based ports (com)
• 16550-based ports (com)
• ST16650-based ports (com)
• XR16850-based ports (only in the pccom driver)
• AST-style 4-port serial boards (ast) ^(G)
• BOCA 8-port serial cards (boca) ^(*)
• Cyclades Cyclom-{4, 8, 16}Y serial boards (cy) ^(G)
• Cyclades-Z series multiport serial boards (cz) ^(G)
• IBM PC-RT 4-port serial boards (rtfps) ^(*)
• Addonics FlexPort 8S (addcom) ^(*)

Parallel Ports

• Any standard parallel port (lpt) ^(G)

Communications Controllers

• Universal Serial Bus host controllers, including:
  • USB Universal Host Controller (uhci) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • USB Open Host Controller (ohci) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller (ehci) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• PCI "universal" communication cards (puc), providing serial (com) and parallel (lpt) children ^(G)

Ethernet Adapters

• 3Com 3c501 (el) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• 3Com 3c503 (ec) ^(B)
• 3Com 3c505 (eg) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• 3Com 3c507 (ie) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• 3Com 3c509, 3c579, and 3c59x (ep) (disabling PnP on 3c509B is recommended)
• 3Com 3c515 (ef) ^(B)
• 3Com 3c9xx EtherLink XL adapters (xl)
• 3Com 3c990 3XP Typhoon/Sidewinder PCI adapters (txp) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Adaptec "Starfire" AIC-6915 based PCI adapters (sf) ^(G)
• ADMtek AL981 ("Comet") and AN983 ("Centaur-P") based PCI adapters (dc)
• ADMtek AN986-based USB adapters (aue) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA adapters (le) ^(B)
• AMD PCnet-based PCI adapters (pcn) ^{(B) (C)}
• ASIX 88140A/88141-based PCI adapters (dc)
• ASIX Electronics AX88172 based USB adapters (axe)
• Attansic L1 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device (age)
• Broadcom BCM4401 (bce) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• CATC USB-EL1210A-based USB adapters (cue) ^(G)
• Davicom DM9009, DM9100, DM9102, and DM9102A based PCI adapters (dc)
• Davicom DM9601 USB Ethernet adapters (udav)
• DEC EtherWORKS III cards (lc) ^(G)
• Digital DC21x4x-based PCI adapters (de)
• Digital DC2114x-based four port cards, (dc)
• Intel EtherExpress 16 (ie) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 ISA (ex) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Intel i8255x-based (except the i82556) PCI adapters (fxp)
• Intel 21145-based cards (dc)
• Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101B-based USB adapters (kue) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Lite-On PNIC/PNIC-II-based adapters (dc)
• Macronix 98713/98715/98725-based adapters (dc)
• Myson Technologies MTD803 3-in-1 Fast Ethernet adapters (mtd)
• National Semiconductor DP83815/DP83816-based PCI adapters (sis) ^{(B) (C)}
• Novell NE1000, NE2000 (ISA, and PCI variants thereof) (ne) ^(B)
• NVIDIA nForce MCP-based Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet adapters (nfe)
• RealTek 8129/8139-based adapters (rl) ^(B)
• Realtek RTL8150L based USB adapters (url) ^(G)
• SiS 900 and SiS 7016-based PCI adapters (sis) ^{(B) (C)}
• SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards (we) ^(B)
• SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards) (we) ^(B)
• SMC 8416 EtherEZ PnP cards (we) (with PnP mode off) ^(B)
• SMC 83C170 ("EtherPower II") (EPIC/100) (epic) ^{(B) (C)}
• Sun Happy Meal PCI adapters (hme) ^(G)
• Sundance ST201-based PCI adapters (ste) ^(G)
• Texas Instruments ThunderLAN PCI adapters (tl) ^{(B) (C)}
• VIA Rhine/RhineII/RhineIII Ethernet adapters (vr) ^(C)
• Winbond W89C840F-based adapters (wb) ^{(A) (B)}

Please be aware that many NE2000 adapters fail or perform very poorly. We do not recommend using them, but your mileage may vary.

Wireless Ethernet Adapters

• ADMtek ADM8211 IEEE 802.11b PCI/CardBus adapters (atw) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Aironet Communications 4500/4800 IEEE 802.11FH/b ISA PnP, PCI, and PCMCIA adapters (an) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Atheros IEEE 802.11a/b/g PCI/CardBus adapters (ath) ^{(A) (B)}
• Atheros IEEE 802.11a/g/n PCI/CardBus adapters (athn) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Atheros USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g USB adapters (uath) ^(G)
• Atheros USB IEEE 802.11a/g/n USB adapters (otus) ^(G)
• Atmel AT76C50x IEEE 802.11b USB adapters (atu) ^(G)
• Broadcom AirForce IEEE 802.11b/g PCI/CardBus adapters (bwi) ^(G)
• Conexant/Intersil Prism GT Full-MAC IEEE 802.11a/b/g PCI/CardBus adapters (pgt) ^(G)
• Conexant/Intersil Prism GT SoftMAC IEEE 802.11b/g USB adapters (upgt) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11b PCI adapters (ipw) ^(G)
• Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG 802.11a/b/g PCI adapters (iwi) ^(G)
• Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG IEEE 802.11a/b/g PCI adapters (wpi) ^(G)
• Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965/5000/1000/6000 IEEE 802.11a/g/n PCI adapters (iwn) ^(G)
• Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g PCMCIA/PCI/CardBus adapters (malo) ^(G)
• Ralink Technology IEEE 802.11a/g/n PCI/CardBus adapters (ral) ^{(A) (B)}
• Ralink Technology IEEE 802.11b/g USB adapters (ural) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Ralink Technology IEEE 802.11a/b/g USB adapters (rum) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Ralink Technology IEEE 802.11a/g/n USB adapters (run) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Raytheon Raylink/WebGear Aviator IEEE 802.11FH PCMCIA adapters (ray) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Realtek RTL8180L IEEE 802.11b PCI/CardBus adapters (rtw) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Realtek RTL8187L/RTL8187B USB IEEE 802.11b/g adapters (urtw) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Realtek RTL8188CU/RTL8192CU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n adapters (urtwn) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• TI ACX100/ACX111 IEEE 802.11a/b/g PCI/CardBus adapters (acx) ^(G)
• WaveLAN/IEEE, PRISM 2-3, and Spectrum24 IEEE 802.11b PCMCIA/PCI/USB adapters (wi) ^(B)
• ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B IEEE 802.11b/g USB adapters (zyd) ^(G)

Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

• Alteon Tigon I/II-based adapters (ti) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Intel PRO/1000 based adapters (em)
• National Semiconductor DP83820 and DP83821 based PCI adapters (nge) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Level1 LXT1001 based PCI adapters (lge)
• Broadcom BCM57xx/590x (a.k.a. Tigon3) based PCI adapters (bge) ^{(A) (C)}
• Broadcom NetXtreme II based PCI adapters (bnx) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 based PCI adapters (stge) ^(G)
• SysKonnect and Marvell based GigE(sk) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Realtek 8169/8169S/8110S based PCI adapters (re) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• VIA Networking VT6122 based PCI adapters (vge) ^{(A) (B) (C)}

10Gb Ethernet Adapters

• Intel 82597 PRO/10GbE based PCI adapters (ixgb) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Intel 82598/82599 PRO/10GbE based PCI adapters (ix) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Myricom Myri-10G based PCI Express adapters (myx) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Neterion Xframe/Xframe-II based PCI adapters (xge) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• Tehuti Networks 10Gb based PCI adapters (tht), ^{(A) (B) (C)}

ATM Adapters

• Efficient Networks EN-155 and Adaptec ANA-590x ATM interfaces (en) ^(*)

FDDI Adapters

• Digital DEFEA EISA FDDI adapters (fea) ^(G)
• Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters (fpa) ^(G)

WAN Adapters

• Accoom Networks Artery T1/E1 WAN interfaces (art) ^(G)
• SBE (formerly Lan Media Corporation) SSI (T1)/HSSI/DS1/DS3 WAN interfaces (lmc) ^(G)
• Sangoma Technologies AFT T1/E1 WAN interfaces (san) ^(G)

Cryptography Accelerators

• Broadcom uBsec BCM5801, BCM5802, BCM5805, BCM5820, BCM5821, BCM5822, BCM5823 (and the legacy Bluesteelnet 5501 and 5601 parts) (ubsec) ^(G)
• Hifn 6500-based boards (lofn) ^(G)
• Hifn 7751/7811/7951/7955/7956-based boards (hifn), including: ^(G)
  • Soekris Engineering vpn1201, vpn1211, vpn1401, and vpn1411
  • GTGI PowerCrypt Encryption Accelerator
  • NetSec 7751
  • Hifn 7751 and 9751 reference boards
  • Invertex AEON
• SafeNet SafeXcel 1141/1741 (safe)

PC Cards (PCMCIA/CardBus ^(B))

• ATA cards (wdc, wd, sd, cd), including:
  • ATA/IDE card drives
  • ATA/IDE CD-ROM adapters
  • CF/ATA flash cards and disk drives
• Ethernet adapters, including:
  • 3Com EtherLink (ep) and EtherLink XL-based (xl) LAN PC Cards
  • Intel/DEC 21443 "Tulip" clones (dc)
  • Intel i8255x-based (fxp)
  • NE2000 based (ne)
  • RealTek 8139-based (rl)
  • SMC 91Cxx-based (sm) ^(G)
  • Xircom (xe) ^(A)
• PCMCIA controllers, including:
  • Intel i82365 and compatibles (pcic)
• SCSI host adapters, including:
  • Adaptec SlimSCSI APA-14[56]0 (aic)
• Serial ports, including:
  • Most modems, digital cellular modems, and serial cards should work.
  • AudioVOX GSM/GPRS modems
  • Novatel Wireless Merlin U530 and U630 GSM/GPRS/UMTS modems
  • Siemens Connect2AIR GSM/GPRS modems
  • Sierra Wireless A550, A555 CDMA 1x, and A710, A750 GSM/GPRS, AC850 GSM/GPRS/UMTS modems
  • Sony Ericsson GC75 GSM/GPRS modems
  • Sony Ericsson GC89 GSM/GPRS/EDGE modems
• Wireless Ethernet adapters:
  • See above.

Universal Serial Bus (USB) Devices ^{(A) (B) (C)}

• USB Audio (uaudio) ^(G)
• USB Diamond MultiMedia Rio MP3 players (urio) ^(G)
• USB Ethernet adapters ( aue, axe, cue, kue, udav, url), see above ^(G)
• USB Generic Human Interface Devices (catch-all) (uhid) ^(G)
• USB Handspring Visor (uvisor) ^(G)
• USB Hubs (uhub)
• USB Keyboards (ukbd)
• USB Mass Storage devices, i.e., USB floppy drives and USB memory stick controllers (umass)
• USB Mice (ums) ^(G)
• USB Modems (umodem) ^(G)
• USB Printers (ulpt) ^(G)
• USB Radio Clocks (Gude ADS Expert mouseCLOCK and Expert mouseCLOCK USB II) for DCF77 and HBG (udcf) ^(G)
• USB Scanners (uscanner, usscanner) ^(G)
• USB-USB cables (upl) ^(G)
• USB Y@p phone (uyap) ^(*)
• USB Video (uvideo)

Pointing Devices ^(G)

• "Logitech"-style bus mice (lms)
• "Microsoft"-style bus mice (mms)
• "PS/2"-style mice (pms)
• Serial mice (uses serial port driver)

Sound Devices ^(G)

• AMD Geode LX CS5536 integrated AC'97 audio (auglx)
• ATI IXP series (auixp)
• C-Media CMI8[37]38 (cmpci)
• Cirrus Logic CrystalClear CS4280 (clcs)
• Cirrus Logic CrystalClear CS4281 (clct)
• Ensoniq AudioPCI (eap)
• ESS Tech ES188[78], ES888 (ess)
• ESS Solo-1 PCI AudioDrive (eso)
• ESS Maestro 1, 2 and 2E and clones (maestro)
• ESS Maestro 3 and Allegro 1 (esa)
• Forte Media FM801 audio (fms)
• Gravis Ultrasound and Ultrasound Max (gus)
• Intel 82801 (ICH/ICH0/ICH1/ICH2/ICH3/ICH4/ICH5/ICH6/ICH7) and 440MX, SiS 7012, AMD 768 and 8111, NVIDIA nForce/nForce2/nForce3/nForce4 AC'97 (auich)
• Intel 82801FB/GB/HB audio (azalia)
• NeoMagic 256AV/ZX (neo)
• SoundBlaster ISA cards and 100% compatibles (sb)
• SoundBlaster PCI128 (eap)
• SoundBlaster Live! and PCI512 (EMU10k1) (emu)
• Trident 4DWave-DX/NX and clones (SiS 7018, ALi M5451) (autri)
• VIA VT82C686A, VT8233, VT8235, VT8237 SouthBridge integrated AC'97 audio (auvia)
• Yamaha OPL3-SA3 (ym)
• Yamaha DS-XG (yds)
• Yamaha and Roland ISA/ISA PnP MIDI UART(mpu)

The following drivers are not extensively tested:

• Personal Sound System (pss)
• ProAudio Spectrum (pas)
• S3 SonicVibes (sv)
• Windows Sound System (wss)

Radio Receiver Devices (radio)

• Aztech/PackardBell FM radio device (az)
• Brooktree 848/849/878/879-based TV tuner cards (bktr)
• Forte Media FM801 audio device (fms)
• AIMS Lab Radiotrack FM radio device (rt)
• AIMS Lab Radiotrack II FM radio device (rtii)
• SoundForte RadioLink SF16-FMR FM radio device (sfr)
• SoundForte RadioLink SF16-FMR2 FM radio device (sf2r)
• D-Link DSB-R100 USB radio device (udsbr)

Miscellaneous Devices

• APM power management (apm)
• Brooktree 848/849/878/879-based video capture cards (bktr), including: ^(G)
  • Animation Technologies FlyVideo
  • AOpen VA1000
  • Askey/Dynalink Magic TView
  • ATI TV-Wonder and Wonder/VE
  • AverMedia cards
  • Hauppauge Wincast TV and WinTV/PCI
  • IMS TV Turbo
  • Intel Smart Video Recorder III
  • I/O DATA GV-BCTV2/PCI
  • I/O DATA GV-BCTV3/PCI
  • KISS TV/FM PCI
  • Leadtek Winfast TV 2000
  • Miro PC TV
  • MMAC Osprey
  • NEC PK-UG-X017
  • STB TV PCI Television Tuner
  • Terratec TerraTVplus
  • Video Highway XTreme
  • VideoLogic Captivator PCI
  • Zoltrix TV and Genie TV/FM
• Hardware monitoring sensors, including: ^(G)
  • AMD K8 embedded temperature sensor (kate)
  • Analog Devices AD7416, AD7417 and AD7418 (adc)
  • Analog Devices ADM1021, ADM1023 and ADM1032 (admtemp)
  • Analog Devices ADM1022 and ADM1028 (thmc)
  • Analog Devices ADM1024 (admlc)
  • Analog Devices ADM1025 (admtm)
  • Analog Devices ADM1026 (admcts)
  • Analog Devices ADM1030 (admtmp)
  • Analog Devices ADM1031 (admtt)
  • Analog Devices ADM9240 (lmenv)
  • Analog Devices ADT7460, ADT7465, ADT7475, ADT7476, ADT7477 and ADM1027 (adt)
  • Andigilog aSC7611 (andl)
  • Andigilog aSC7621 (adl)
  • Asus AS99127F (lm)
  • Asus ASB100 (asbtm)
  • Dallas Semiconductor 1775 (lmtemp)
  • Dallas Semiconductor 1780 (lmenv)
  • Fintek F71805 (fins)
  • Genesys Logic GL518SM (glenv)
  • Genesys Logic GL523SM (admtemp)
  • Global Mixed-mode Technology G781 (admtemp)
  • Intel Core embedded temperature sensor (cpu)
  • Intel Xeon embedded temperature sensor (admtemp)
  • ITE IT8705F, IT8712F, IT8716F, IT8718F and IT8726F (it)
  • Maxim DS1617 (admtemp)
  • Maxim DS1624, DS1631 and DS1721 (maxds)
  • Maxim MAX6642, MAX6657, MAX6658, MAX6659 and MAX6690 (maxtmp)
  • National Semiconductor LM75, LM77 (lmtemp)
  • National Semiconductor LM78, LM78-J, LM79 (lm)
  • National Semiconductor LM81 and LM87 (lmenv)
  • National Semiconductor LM85 and LM96000 (adt)
  • National Semiconductor LM86, LM89, LM90, LM99 and LM99-1 (maxtmp)
  • National Semiconductor LM93 (lmn)
  • National Semiconductor PC87366 LPC Super I/O VLM and TMS (nsclpcsio)
  • Philips LM75A (lmtemp)
  • Philips NE1619 (admtm)
  • SMSC 47m192 (admtm)
  • SMSC EMC6D10x and SCH5017 (adt)
  • SiS SiS950 (it)
  • Texas Instruments THMC50 (thmc)
  • ThinkPad Active Protection System accelerometer (aps)
  • VIA VT1211 (viasio)
  • VIA VT82C686A, VT8231 (viaenv)
  • Winbond W83627HF, W83627THF, W83627DHG, W83627EHF, W83637HF, W83697HF, W83781D, W83782D, W83783S, W83791D and W83792D (lm)
  • Winbond W83793G (wbng)
  • Winbond W83L784R, W83L785R and W83L785TS-L (wbenv)
• Hardware watchdog timer support:
  • AMD Elan SC520 System Controller (elansc) ^(G)
  • ICS PCI-WDT500/501 watchdog timer (wdt) ^(G)
  • Intel 6300ESB ICH (ichwdt) ^(*)
  • National Semiconductor Geode SC1100 IAOC (geodesc) ^(*)
  • Quancom PWDOG1 watchdog timer (pwdog) ^(G)
  • VIA VT1211 (viasio) ^(G)
• General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) devices, including:
  • National Semiconductor PC87366 LPC Super I/O GPIO (nsclpcsio)
  • National Semiconductor Geode SC1100 PCI-ISA bridge GPIO (gscpcib)
  • AMD Elan SC520 System Controller PIO function (elansc)
• Meinberg Funkuhren radio clocks, including:
  • GPS170PCI 3.3V/5V 6-channel GPS receiver card (mbg)
  • PCI32 5V DCF77 time signal station receiver card (mbg)
  • PCI509 5V DCF77 time signal station receiver card (mbg)
  • PCI511 3.3V/5V DCF77 time signal station receiver card (mbg)
  • PEX511 PCI Express DCF77 time signal station receiver card (mbg)
  • USB5131 USB attached DCF77 time signal station receiver (umbg)

ISAPNP Cards

• Nearly all SB-style audio cards (sb)
• Nearly all joystick ports (joy)
• Nearly all Yamaha-style audio cards
• Many NE2000-style Ethernet cards (ne)
• Most serial port or modem cards (com)
• NE2100 Ethernet cards (le)

If a device does not work, be sure to mail the output of dmesg(8) to dmesg@openbsd.org, and we will try to add support.

^(G) Drivers for hardware marked with (G) are only included in the GENERIC kernels, but are not included on the various distribution floppies (including the cd-rom boot image).

^(A) Drivers for hardware marked with (A) are not included in floppy A.

^(B) Drivers for hardware marked with (B) are not included in floppy B.

^(C) Drivers for hardware marked with (C) are not included in floppy C.

^(*) Support for devices marked with (*) is not included on the distribution media or in the GENERIC kernel, and will require you to compile a custom kernel to enable it.

Unsupported Hardware:

Unsupported hardware may be supported in the future, and your donation of time, hardware, or documentation can accelerate this support!

• The "Micro Channel" MCA bus used in many IBM PS/2 models
• NCR 5380-based and 53400-based SCSI host adapters
• QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives (these are the tape drives that connect to the floppy disk controller)
• Sony and Panasonic proprietary CD-ROM interfaces
• Parallel-port ZIP drives (SCSI and ATAPI ZIP drives work fine)
• Intel i82556 (EtherExpress PRO/100A, Intel PRO/100 EISA and PRO/100 Smart) and i82596 (EtherExpress PRO/10 PCI) Ethernet adapters
• Hewlett-Packard PC-LAN+ (HP27xxx) Ethernet adapters
• Aureal Vortex sound cards
• Winmodems
• Infrared devices, such as commonly found on laptops
• Firewire
• Mylex and Intel RAID controllers, those not supporting I2O interface
• PCMCIA:
  • Memory cards
  • Most multifunction cards

Installation with other operating systems:

OpenBSD/i386 can be installed to share the system disks with other operating systems, such as MS-DOS, Windows or Linux, using the MBR/partition table scheme, and an optional boot selector program. Everyday operation is trouble free, but setup requires care, and several operating systems, such as Windows 95, are known to be careless about pre-existing MBR information.

Also, some laptop computers use a specific partition as suspend-to-disk storage, which should not be clobbered.

More details on this process can be found in the Installation Guide and Disk Setup Manual.

Getting and installing OpenBSD/i386:

The latest supported OpenBSD/i386 release is OpenBSD 5.3. Here are the OpenBSD/i386 5.3 installation instructions .

Snapshots are made available from time to time, in this location as well as in a few mirrors. Here are the OpenBSD/i386 snapshot installation instructions as well.

There are several installation media provided:

• CD boot
  The CD provides an El Torito no-emulation boot image that includes almost all OpenBSD drivers. This also includes minimal USB support (storage devices and keyboard).
  For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the RAMDISK_CD kernel configuration file.
• Floppy A (floppy53.fs)
  This 1.44MB floppy image contains the most common drivers. It is designed to cover the most typical PC. As a general rule, you will find that the missing drivers are ones which need large microcodes to run, such as for rare SCSI cards, gigabit ethernet cards, or RAID devices.
  For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the RAMDISK kernel configuration file.
• Floppy B (floppyB53.fs)
  This 1.44MB floppy image contains some drivers that are missing from Floppy A. This media is designed to help people setting up modern server type systems. It contains support for pretty much all the SCSI and RAID drivers, gigabit ethernet cards, and such. Due to space considerations, you will find that some other drivers are missing. In particular, support for most PCMCIA devices is missing, the MSDOS filesystem, and for really ancient hardware devices.
  For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the RAMDISKB kernel configuration file.
• Floppy C (floppyC53.fs)
  This 1.44MB floppy image contains many CardBus and PCMCIA device drivers. This media is designed for installing on laptops. In most cases, one would discover that Floppy A also works, but the odd laptop might benefit more from using this image.
  For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the RAMDISKC kernel configuration file.