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 list
• 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.

Although OpenBSD/i386 does not currently support multiple processors (SMP), it will run on multi-processor system boards, using only one processor.

Through its binary compatibility layer, OpenBSD/i386 can run Linux, FreeBSD, BSD/OS, SVR4 (including Solaris) and IBCS2 binaries, to some extent. Most applications will work flawlessly.

XFree86 support is available for most graphics cards, using either recent XFree86 (as of OpenBSD 3.3, 4.2.1) servers whenever possible, or XFree86 3.3.6 servers otherwise.

Supported hardware:

Most laptops are supported. We have a page that details the specifics of some common laptops.

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

Processors

OpenBSD does not currently support multiple processors (SMP), but will run using one processor on a multi-processor system board.

All CPU chips compatible with the Intel 80386 (i386) architecture are supported:

• 386/486 (SX/DX/DX2/DX4)
• Intel Pentium/Pentium-MMX
• Intel Pentium Pro/II/III/Celeron/Xeon
• Intel Pentium IV
• AMD 6x86
• AMD K5/K6/K6-2/K6-3
• AMD Athlon/Duron
• Cyrix MediaGX/M1/M2
• VIA Cyrix III
• Rise mP6
• IDT WinChip
• NexGen 586
• NS Geode GX1
• Transmeta TMS3200, TMS5400, TMS5600

Regular floating-point coprocessors, when not built-in the processor, are also supported. If no floating-point hardware is present in the system, OpenBSD can use software emulation.

Everything that is a clone of the 386 or up should work fine. The only CPU that is known to work poorly (due to flawed motherboard designs) is the Cyrix 386DLC.

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)

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 Controllers (pciide)

• Acard ATP850, ATP860
• Acer Labs M5229
• Advanced Micro Devices 756, 766
• CMD Tech PCI0640, PCI0643, PCI0646, PCI0648, PCI0649 and PCI0680
• Contaq Microsystems/Cypress CY82C693
• HighPoint HPT366, HPT370, HPT372, HPT374 (RAID mode is not supported)
• Intel PIIX, PIIX3, and PIIX4
• Intel 82801 (ICH/ICH0/ICH2/ICH3/ICH4)
• National Semiconductor PC87415
• NVIDIA nForce/nForce2
• Promise PDC20246, PDC20262, PDC20265, PDC20267, PDC20268, PDC20268R, PDC20269, PDC20271, PDC20275, PDC20276, PDC20277 (RAID mode is not supported)
• ServerWorks OSB4, CSB5, CSB6
• Silicon Integrated System 5513 (5597/5598)
• VIA Technologies VT82C586/A/B, VT82C596A/B, VT82C686A/B, VT8231, VT8366, VT8233, VT8235

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 boards (aic), including the Adaptec AHA-152x and the SoundBlaster SCSI host adapter. ^(B)
  (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 AIC-7770-based SCSI host adapters (including the Adaptec AHA-274x and AHA-284x families). (ahc) ^(C)
• Adaptec AHA-[23]94x[W] cards and some on-board PCI designs using the AIC7870 and AIC7880 chips. (ahc) ^(C)
• Adaptec AHA-[23]9[34]xU[2W] cards and on-board PCI designs using the AIC789[01], AIC7895, AIC789[67] chips. (ahc) ^(C)
• Adaptec AIC-789[29] chips and products like the AHA-29160 based upon it which do 160MB/sec SCSI. (ahc) ^(C) (However, the 7899G card is currently not supported with more than one device attached)
• AdvanSys "U", "UW", "U2W" and "U160" PCI SCSI controllers including the ABP940U[AW], ASB3940U[AW]-00, ASB3940U2W-00 and ASB3950U160. (adw ^{(A) (C)} and adv ^{(B) (C)})
• AMD Am53c974 PCscsi-PCI SCSI controllers (pcscp), including: ^{(A) (C)}
  • Tekram DC-390
• Buslogic BT-54x (Adaptec AHA-154x clones) (aha) ^{(B) (C)}
• BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx (bha) (but not the new "FlashPoint" series of BusLogic SCSI adapters) ^{(B) (C)}
• Initio INIC-940 and INIC-950 based PCI SCSI host adapters including the Initio INI-9090U and INI-9100U/UW, Iwill 2935UW, and DTC Domex 3194U Plus. (iha) ^{(A) (C)}
• QLogic PCI SCSI controllers (isp) ^(A)
• Seagate/Future Domain ISA SCSI adapter cards (sea), including: ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • ST01/02
  • Future Domain TMC-885
  • Future Domain TMC-950
• Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx, 53C1010 and 53C1510D-based PCI SCSI host adapters (including generic/no name cards, old ASUS cards, the DTC-3130 series, Diamond Fireport series, etc.) (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 SCSI host adapters (trm) ^{(A) (C)}
• Ultrastor 14f, 24f, and 34f (uha) ^{(A) (C)}
• WD-7000 SCSI host adapters (wds) ^{(A) (B) (C)}

RAID and Cache Controllers

• Intel (and formerly ICP-Vortex) GDT series (gdt) ^(A)
• Adaptec FSA-based RAID controllers (aac), including: ^{(A) (C)}
  • Adaptec AAC-2622, AAC-364, AAC-3642
  • Dell PERC 2/Si, PERC 2/QC, PERC 3/Si, PERC 3/Di, PERC 3/QC
  • HP NetRAID-4M
• American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID controllers in "Mass Storage" mode (ami) ^{(A) (C)}
• 3ware Escalade 3W-5x00 and 3W-6x00 series (twe) ^{(A) (C)}
• Compaq Smart ARRAY 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
• 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)
  • American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID controllers (in I2O mode)
  • other vendors' controllers supporting I2O, including Intel and Mylex, but these were not tested

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, and DVD drives. (cd)
• Most ATAPI (IDE) CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, and DVD drives. (cd)

Tape Drives

• Most SCSI tape drives (st)
• Most SCSI tape changers (ch) ^(G)
• QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek- compatible) tape drives (wt) ^(*)

Display Adapters

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

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)}
• PCI "universal" communication cards (puc), providing serial (com) and parallel (lpt) children, including: ^(G)
  • Dolphin Peripherals 4014 (dual parallel) and 4035 (dual serial)
  • SIIG Cyber 2P1S (dual parallel, single serial) and 2S1P (dual serial, single parallel) PCI
  • SIIG Cyber 4S PCI (quad serial)
  • SIIG Cyber I/O PCI (single parallel, single serial)
  • SIIG Cyber Parallel, Parallel Dual, Serial, Serial Dual PCI
  • VScom PCI-800 (8 port serial, probably OEM)
  • VScom PCI 011H (1 port parallel)
  • VScom PCI 100H (1 port serial)
  • VScom PCI 110H (1 port serial and 1 port parallel)
  • VScom PCI 200H (2 port serial)
  • VScom PCI 210H (2 port serial and 1 port parallel)
  • VScom PCI 400H (4 port serial)
  • VScom PCI 410H (4 port serial and 1 port parallel)
  • VScom PCI 800H (8 port serial)
  • VScom PCI 100L (1 port serial)
  • VScom PCI 200L (2 port serial)
  • VScom PCI 210L (2 port serial and 1 port parallel)
  • VScom PCI 400L (4 port serial)
  • VScom PCI 800L (8 port serial)
  • AT&T/Lucent Venus Modem (found on IBM 33L4618 card, Actiontec 56K, and others)
  • US Robotics 3CP5609 PCI (modem)
  • Lava Computers 2SP-PCI (parallel port)
  • Lava Computers 2SP-PCI and Quattro-PCI (dual serial)
  • NEC PK-UG-X008 (serial)
  • NEC PK-UG-X001 K56flex PCI (modem)
  • Koutech IOFLEX-2S (dual serial)
  • Syba Tech Ltd. PCI-4S2P-550-ECP (4 port serial and 2 port parallel)
  • Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd. PCI I/O Card 4S (4 port serial)
  • NetMos 2S1P (2 port serial and 1 port parallel)
  • Boca Research Turbo Serial 654 PCI (4 port serial)
  • Boca Research Turbo Serial 658 PCI (8 port serial)

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), including:
  • 3Com 3c900/3c900B PCI adapters
  • 3Com 3c905/3c905B/3c905C PCI adapters
  • 3Com 3c980/3c980C server adapters
  • 3Com 3cSOHO adapter
  • 3Com 3c900B-FL and 3c900B-FL/FX fiber optic adapters
  • 3Com 3c555/3c556/3c556B MiniPCI adapters
  • Dell on-board 3c920
  • Dell Precision on-board 3c905B
  • Dell OptiPlex GX1 on-board 3c918
  • Dell Latitude laptop docking station embedded 3c905
  • NVidia nForce2 integrated 3Com 9201 (nForce2-ST, nForce2-GT)
• 3Com 3c990 3XP Typhoon/Sidewinder PCI adapters (txp), including: ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • 3CR990-TX-95
  • 3CR990-TX-97
  • 3CR990-SVR95
  • 3CR990-SVR97
• Adaptec "Starfire" AIC-6915 based PCI adapters (sf), including: ^(G)
  • Adaptec Single32 ANA-69011
  • Adaptec Single64 ANA-62011 and ANA-62020
  • Adaptec Duo64 ANA-62022
  • Adaptec Quartet64 ANA-62044
• ADMtek AL981 ("Comet") and AN983 ("Centaur-P") based PCI adapters (dc), including:
  • Accton EN2242 MiniPCI
  • Linksys LNE100TX v4.x
  • Mototech ME316
• ADMtek AN986-based USB adapters (aue), including: ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • 3com 3c460b
  • Abocom UFE1000
  • Abocom DSB650TX
  • Accton USB320-EC
  • Accton SpeedStream Ethernet
  • Admtek Pegasus
  • Admtek Pegasus II
  • Billionton Systems USB100
  • Corega FEther USB-TX
  • D-Link DSB-650
  • D-Link DSB-650TX
  • D-Link DSB-650TX-PNA
  • Elecom LD-USB
  • Elsa Microlink USB2Ethernet
  • I/O DATA USB ETTX
  • Kingston KNU101TX
  • LinkSys USB100TX
  • LinkSys USB100H1
  • LinkSys USB10TA
  • Melco Inc. LUA-TX
  • Netgear FA101
  • Siemens SpeedStream USB
  • Smartbridges smartNIC 2
  • SMC 2202USB
  • SMC EZ Connect USB
  • SOHOware NUB100
• AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA adapters (le), including: ^(B)
  • Novell NE1500T
  • Novell NE2100
  • Kingston 21xx
• AMD LANCE and PCnet-based PCI adapters (le), including: ^{(B) (C)}
  • BOCALANcard/PCI
  • AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
• ASIX 88140A/88141-based PCI adapters (dc), including:
  • CNet Pro110B
  • Alfa Inc. GFC2204
• CATC USB-EL1210A-based USB adapters (cue), including: ^(G)
  • CATC Netmate and Netmate II
  • Belkin F5U111
• Davicom DM9009*, DM9100, DM9102, and DM9102A based PCI adapters (dc), including:
  • Jaton XpressNet
• DEC EtherWORKS III cards (lc), including: ^(G)
  • DE203
  • DE204
  • DE205
• Digital DC21x4x-based PCI adapters (de), including:
  • Older SMC PCI EtherPower 10, 10/100 (models 8432, 9332, and 9334)
  • Older LinkSys 10, 10/100 (newer models are supported by other drivers)
  • Znyx ZX3xx
  • Cogent EM100FX and EM440TX
  • Digital PCI DE435, EISA DE425, DE450, DE500
  • D-Link DFE-570TX Quad port
  • Almost all other variants work.
• Digital DC2114x-based four port cards, (dc) including:
  • Adaptec ANA-6944A
  • Cogent EM400
  • Compex 400TX
  • CompuShack Goldline Quattro
  • Phobos P430TX
  • Znyx ZX346
• 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), including:
  • Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+
  • Intel EtherExpress PRO/100, PRO/100B, and PRO/100+
  • Intel EtherExpress PRO/100+ "Management Adapter"
  • Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 Dual Port
  • Intel PRO/100 VE, PRO/100 VM, and PRO/100 S
• Intel 21145-based cards (dc)
• Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101B-based USB adapters (kue), including: ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • 3Com 3C19250
  • 3Com 3c460 HomeConnect
  • ADS Technologies USB-10BT
  • Aox USB101
  • ATen UC10T
  • Corega USB-T
  • D-Link DSB-650
  • Entegra NET-USB-E45
  • Kawasaki USB101
  • LinkSys USB10T
  • Netgear EA101
  • Peracom USB
  • SMC 2102/2104USB
  • I/O Data USB-ET/T
• Lite-On PNIC/PNIC-II-based adapters (dc), including:
  • Kingston KNE110TX
  • LinkSys LNE100TX
  • Matrox Networks FastNIC 10/100
  • Netgear FA310TX
• Macronix 98713/98715/98725-based adapters (dc), including:
  • Accton EN1217
  • Addtron AEF-320TX/AEF-330TX
  • CNet PRO1020A/B
  • Complex RL-100TX
  • NDC Communications SOHOware SFA110A
  • SVEC PN102-TX Fast Ethernet card
• National Semiconductor DP83815-based PCI adapters (sis), including: ^{(B) (C)}
  • NetGear FA311
  • NetGear FA312
• Novell NE1000, NE2000 (ISA, and PCI variants thereof) (ne) ^(B)
• RealTek 8129/8139-based adapters (rl), including:
  • Accton MPX 5030/5038
  • Allied Telesyn AT2550
  • D-Link DFE530TX+
  • D-Link DFE538TX
  • Encore ENL832-TX 10/100 M PCI
  • Genius GF100TXR
  • KTX-9130TX 10/100 Fast Ethernet
  • Longshine LCS-8038TX-R
  • NDC NE100TX-E
  • Netronix EA-1210 Net Ether 10/100
  • Nortel BayStack 21
  • OvisLink LEF-8129TX, LEF-8139TX
  • SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI 1211-TX
• Realtek RTL8150L based USB adapters (url), including: ^(G)
  • Melco Inc. LUA-KTX
  • GreenHouse GH-USB100B
  • Linksys USB100M
• SiS 900 and SiS 7016-based PCI adapters (sis), including: ^{(B) (C)}
  • Mototech ME313
  • NetSurf NS-KFE30D
• SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards (we) ^(B)
• SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards) (we) (See special care notice in INSTALL.i386) ^(B)
• SMC 8416 EtherEZ PnP cards (we) (with PnP mode off) ^(B)
• SMC 9432 ("EtherPower II") EPIC 10/100 (tx) ^(C)
• Sun Happy Meal PCI adapters (hme), including: ^(G)
  • Fast Ethernet
  • Quad Fast Ethernet
• Sundance ST201-based PCI adapters (ste), including: ^(G)
  • D-Link DFE-550TX
• Texas Instruments ThunderLAN PCI adapters (tl), including: ^(C)
  • Compaq Netelligent PCI Adapters
  • Compaq NetFlex 3/P
  • Compaq Deskpro integrated adapter
  • Compaq Prosignia integrated adapter
  • Olicom OC2135, OC2183, OC2325, OC2326
  • Racore 8165 and 8148
  • TI ThunderLAN adapters
• VIA Rhine/RhineII/RhineIII Ethernet adapters (vr), including: ^(C)
  • Addtron AEF-360TX
  • Hawking PN102TX
  • D-Link DFE530TX
• Winbond W89C840F-based adapters (wb), including:
  • Trendware TE100-PCIE
  • Compex RL100-ATX 10/100

Wireless Ethernet Adapters

• Compact Flash Adapters (will be detected as PCMCIA adapters)
  • Buffalo AirStation CF (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • ELSA XI800 CF (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• PCMCIA Adapters
  • 3Com AirConnect 3CRWE737A PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • ACTIONTEC HWC01170 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Addtron AWP-100 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Agere Orinoco PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Aironet 4500/4800 802.11DS PCMCIA and PCI (an) ^{(A) (B)}
  • BUFFALO AirStation PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Cabletron RoamAbout PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Cisco 340/350 802.11DS PCMCIA and PCI (an) ^{(A) (B)}
  • Compaq Agency NC5004 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Contec FLEXLAN/FX-DS110-PCC PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Corega PCC-11 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Corega PCCA-11 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Corega PCCB-11 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Corega CGWLPCIA11 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Dlink DWL650 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • ELSA XI300 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • ELSA XI325 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • ELSA XI325H PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • EMTAC A2424i PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Ericsson Wireless LAN CARD C11 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Gemtek WL-311 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Hawking Technology WE110P PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • I-O DATA WN-B11/PCM PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Intel PRO/Wireless 2011 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Intersil Prism II PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Linksys Instant Wireless WPC11 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Linksys Instant Wireless WPC11 2.5 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Linksys Instant Wireless WPC11 3.0 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Lucent WaveLAN PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • NANOSPEED ROOT-RZ2000 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • NEC CMZ-RT-WP PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Netgear MA401 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Netgear MA401RA PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Nokia C020 Wireless LAN PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Nokia C110/C111 Wireless LAN PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • NTT-ME 11Mbps Wireless LAN PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Proxim Harmony PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Proxim RangeLAN-DS PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • RayLink Aviator2.4/Pro 802.11FH PCMCIA (ray) ^{(A) (B)}
  • Samsung MagicLAN SWL-2000N PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • SMC 2632 EZ Connect PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Symbol Spectrum24 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • TDK LAK-CD011WL PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • US Robotics 2410 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • US Robotics 2445 PCMCIA (wi) ^{(A) (B) (C)}
• PCI Adapters
  • 3Com AirConnect 3CRWE777A PCI (wi)
  • Belkin F5D6000 PCI (a rebadged WL11000P) (wi)
  • Eumitcom WL11000P PCI (wi)
  • Dlink DWL520 PCI (wi)
  • Global Sun Technology GL24110P PCI (untested) (wi)
  • Global Sun Technology GL24110P02 PCI (wi)
  • Intersil Mini-PCI (wi)
  • LinkSys WDT11 PCI (a rebadged GL24110P02) (wi)
  • NDC/Sohoware NCP130 PCI (wi)
  • Netgear MA301 PCI (wi)
  • US Robotics 2415 PCI (rebadged WL11000P) (wi)

Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

• Alteon Tigon I/II-based adapters (ti), including: ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • 3Com 3c985 and 3c985B
  • Alteon ACEnic V (fiber and copper)
  • Digital EtherWORKS 1000SX
  • Farallon PN9000SX
  • Netgear GA620 and GA620T
  • SGI Tigon
• Intel i82540, i82542, i82543, i82544, i82545, and i82546 based adapters (em), including: ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Server Adapter (SX Fiber) (PWLA8490)
  • Intel PRO/1000F Gigabit Server Adapter (SX Fiber) (PWLA8490SX)
  • Intel PRO/1000T Server Adapter (PWLA8490T)
  • Intel PRO/1000XT Server Adapter (PWLA8490XT)
  • Intel PRO/1000XS Server Adapter (SX Fiber) (PWLA8490XF)
  • Intel PRO/1000T Desktop Adapter (PWLA8390T)
  • Intel PRO/1000XTL Lo Profile PCI Server (PWLA8490XTL)
  • Intel PRO/1000MT Desktop Adapter (PWLA8390MT)
  • Intel PRO/1000MT Server Adapter (PWLA8490MT)
  • Intel PRO/1000MT Dual Port Server Adapter (PWLA8492MT)
  • Intel PRO/1000MF Server Adapter (SX Fiber) (PWLA8490MF)
  • Intel PRO/1000MF Dual Port Server Adapter (SX Fiber) (PWLA8492MF)
  • Intel PRO/1000MF Server Adapter (LX Fiber) (PWLA8490LX)
• National Semiconductor DP83820 and DP83821 based PCI adapters (nge), including: ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • Addtron AEG320T
  • Ark PC SOHO-GA2500T (32-bit PCI) and SOHO-GA2000T (64-bit PCI)
  • Asante FriendlyNet GigaNIX 1000TA and 1000TPC
  • D-Link DGE-500T
  • LinkSys EG1032 (32-bit PCI) and EG1064 (64-bit PCI)
  • Netgear GA621
  • Netgear GA622T
  • SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX)
  • Surecom Technology EP-320G-TX
  • Trendware TEG-PCITX (32-bit PCI) and TEG-PCITX2 (64-bit PCI)
• Level1 LXT1001 based PCI adapters (lge), including: ^(*)
  This driver is currently untested. Feedback would be appreciated.
  • SMC TigerCard 1000 (SMC9462SX)
  • D-Link DGE-500SX
• Broadcom BCM570x (a.k.a. Tigon3) based PCI adapters (bge), including: ^{(A) (B) (C)}
  • 3Com 3c996-T (10/100/1000baseTX)
  • 3Com 3c996-SX (1000baseSX)
  • 3Com 3c996B-T (10/100/1000baseTX)
  • Dell PowerEdge 2550 integrated BCM5700 NIC (10/100/1000baseTX)
  • SysKonnect SK-9D21 (10/100/1000baseTX)
  • SysKonnect SK-9D41 (1000baseSX)
• Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 based PCI adapters (stge), including: ^(G)
  • D-Link DGE-550T (10/100/1000baseTX)
  • Antares Microsystems Gigabit Ethernet board
• SysKonnect SK-984x (9841/9842/9843/9844) based adapters (sk) ^{(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

• Lan Media Corporation SSI (T1)/HSSI/DS1/DS3 WAN interfaces (lmc) ^(G)

Cryptography Accelerators

• Broadcom uBsec BCM5801, BCM5802, BCM5805, BCM5820, BCM5821, BCM5822 (and the legacy Bluesteelnet 5501 and 5601 parts)(ubsec) ^(G)
• Hifn 6500-based boards (lofn) ^(G)
• Hifn 7751-based boards (hifn), including: ^(G)
  • Soekris Engineering vpn1201 and vpn1211
  • GTGI PowerCrypt Encryption Accelerator
  • NetSec 7751
  • Hifn 7751 and 9751 reference boards
  • Invertex AEON

PC Cards (PCMCIA ^(B) and CardBus ^{(B) (C)})

• 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, including:
    • 3Com 3C556, 3C562
    • 3Com 3C574TX, 3C[CX]FE574BT
    • 3Com 3C589, 3C589B, 3C589C, 3C589D, 3C589E
    • 3Com 3C575TX, 3C[CX]FE575BT, and 3C[CX3]FE575CT CardBus
    • 3Com 3C[CX]FEM656, 3C[CX]FEM656B, and 3C[CX3]FEM656C CardBus
  • Intel/DEC 21443 "Tulip" clones (dc), including:
    • ADMtek AN985 Centaur-C CardBus
    • IBM EtherJet 10/100 CardBus
    • Linksys PCMPC200 CardBus 10/100
    • SMC EZ CardBus 10/100
    • Xircom X3201 CardBus adapters, including RealPort models
  • Intel i8255x-based (fxp), including:
    • Intel PRO/100 CardBus II
  • NE2000 based (ne), including:
    • Accton EN2212, EN2216
    • Allied Telesis LA-PCM
    • AmbiCom AMB8002T
    • Arowana FE
    • Belkin F5D5020
    • Billionton Systems LNT-10TN
    • CNet NE2000
    • Compex Linkport ENET-B
    • Corega PCC-T, PCC-TD, EtherII PCC-T, FastEther PCC-T, FastEther PCC-TX, FastEther PCC-TXD, FastEther PCC-TXF
    • D-Link DE-650, DE-660, DE-660+, DFE-670TXD
    • Dayna CommuniCard E
    • Digital DEPCM-XX
    • Dual NE2000
    • Edimax NE2000
    • Genius ME 3000II SE
    • Grey Cell GCS2000 Gold II
    • GVC NIC-2000p, NP0335
    • Hawking PN650TX
    • I-O DATA PCLA, PCLA/TE
    • IC-Card
    • Kingston KNE-PC2
    • Linksys PCMPC100, EC2T Combo, EthernetCard, Combo EthernetCard, Trust Combo EthernetCard, Etherfast 10/100
    • MACNICA ME1 for JEIDA
    • Melco LPC3-TX
    • National Semiconductor InfoMover
    • NDC Instant-Link
    • Netgear FA410TX, FA410TXC, FA411
    • Network Everywhere NP10T
    • New Media LiveWire 10/100
    • Planet SmartCom 2000
    • Planex FNW-3600-T, FNW-3700-T
    • Premax PE-200
    • RPTI EP-400, EP-401
    • Seiko Epson EN10B
    • SMC EZCard, 8041
    • Socket Communications LP-CF, LP-E
    • SVEC PN650TX, ComboCard, LANCard
    • Synergy S21810
    • Tamarack NE2000
    • Telecom Device TCD-HPC100
    • Wisecom T210CT, iPort
    • Xircom CFE-10
  • RealTek 8139-based (rl), including:
    • Accton MPX5030 CardBus
    • Corega FEther CB-TXD 10/100 Ethernet
  • SMC 91Cxx-based (sm), including: ^(G)
    • Megahertz XJEM1144, CC10BT
    • SMC EtherEZ 8020BT
  • Xircom (xe), including: ^(A)
    • Xircom CreditCard CE2
• 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.
• 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, cue, kue), 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 Scanners (uscanner, usscanner) ^(G)
• USB-USB cables (upl) ^(G)
• USB Y@p phone (uyap) ^(*)

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)

• 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) and 440MX, SiS 7012, AMD 768 and 8111, nVidia nForce and nForce2 AC'97 (auich)
• 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 and VT8233 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)
  • Hauppage Wincast TV
  • STB TV PCI Television Tuner
  • Miro PC TV
  • Intel Smart Video Recorder III
  • IMS TV Turbo
  • AVer Media TV/FM

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)

Roughly said, the following cards definitely work. Others may work as well; support is continually being improved.

• "3Com 3C509B EtherLink III, TCM5090, PNP80F7, "
• "3Com 3C509B EtherLink III, TCM5095, PNP80F7, "
• "3Com 3C509B EtherLink III, TCM5098, PNP80F7, "
• "ACCTON EN166X MPX2 ETHERNET CAR, @@@9519, PNP80D6, "
• "CMI8330. Audio Adapter, @X@0001, , "
• "Creative AWE64 PnP, CTL0045, , Audio"
• "Creative AWE64 PnP, CTL7002, PNPB02F, Game"
• "Creative SB AWE64 PnP, CTL0045, , Audio"
• "Creative SB AWE64 PnP, CTL7002, PNPB02F, Game"
• "Creative SB AWE64 Gold, CTL0044, , Audio"
• "Creative SB AWE64 Gold, CTL7002, PNPB02F, Game"
• "Creative SB AWE64 PnP, CTL0042, , Audio"
• "Creative SB AWE64 PnP, CTL0045, , Audio"
• "Creative SB AWE64 PnP, CTL7002, PNPB02F, Game"
• "Creative SB16 PnP, CTL0031, , Audio"
• "Creative SB16 PnP, CTL7001, PNPB02F, Game"
• "Creative SB32 PnP, CTL0031, , Audio"
• "Creative SB32 PnP, CTL0041, , Audio"
• "Creative SB32 PnP, CTL0051, , StereoEnhance"
• "Creative SB32 PnP, CTL2011, PNP0600, IDE"
• "Creative SB32 PnP, CTL7001, PNPB02F, Game"
• "Creative ViBRA16C PnP, CTL0001, , Audio"
• "Creative ViBRA16C PnP, CTL7001, PNPB02F, Game"
• "Creative ViBRA16X PnP, CTL7005, PNPB02F, Game"
• "ESS ES1868 Plug and Play AudioD, ESS0001, , "
• "ESS ES1868 Plug and Play AudioD, ESS1868, , "
• "OPL3-SA2 Sound Chip , YMH0021, , "
• "OPL3-SA2 Sound Chip , YMH0022, PNPB02F, "
• "OPL3-SA3 Snd System, YMH0021, , "
• "OPL3-SA3 Snd System, YMH0022, PNPB02F, "
• "RealTek Plug & Play Ethernet Ca, RTL8019, PNP80D6, "

^(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 in the GENERIC kernel, and will require you to compile a custom kernel to enable it.

* Support added after 3.3.

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)
• Multiprocessor motherboards (though they will run fine using one processor only). There exists a project aiming to support these.
• 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 (mickey is working on the later ones)
• Hewlett-Packard PC-LAN+ (HP27xxx) Ethernet adapters
• Aureal Vortex sound cards (mickey is working on it)
• Winmodems
• Infrared devices, such as commonly found on laptops
• Firewire (tdeval is working on it)
• 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:

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

  Booting off the CD provides an El Torito 2.88MB floppy image that contains 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 (floppy33.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 (floppyB33.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, as 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 (floppyC33.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.