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#This page lists hardware known to work with Plan 9. Most hardware is

#listed by chipset: you may need to know what chipset your particular

#cards use.

#

#FLOPPY DISKS

#

#Plan 9 supports generic floppy drives, although some people have had

#trouble accessing them. If you have trouble accessing your 3.5"

#floppy drive and also have a 5.25" floppy drive, try disabling the

#latter in the BIOS.

#

#USB floppy drives are not supported.

#

#IDE/ATAPI DISKS

#

#Plan 9 supports almost all motherboard IDE/ATAPI controllers, but

#DMA transfers are only used on these recognized chipsets (chipsets

#not listed here will simply run slower; you can try turning on DMA

#by editing /sys/src/9/pc/sdata.c).

#

# *	PC-Tech RZ1000

# *	Promise PDC20262

# *	CMD 640B

# *	CMD 646

# *	VIA 82C686

# *	ServerWorks IB6566

# *	Intel 82371FB (PIIX)

# *	Intel 82371SB (PIIX3)

# *	Intel 82371AB (PIIX4)

# *	Intel 82371EB (PIIX4E)

# *	whatever the IBM Thinkpad T23 uses

#

#SCSI

#

# *	Mylex Multimaster (old Buslogic BT-*) adapter

# *	Symbios 53C8XX adapter

#

#CARDBUS AND PCMCIA CONTROLLERS

#

#The following cardbus controllers are supported:

#

# *	Ricoh 476 PCI/Cardbus bridge

# *	Ricoh 478 PCI/Cardbus bridge

# *	TI PCI-1131 Cardbus controller

# *	TI PCI-1250 Cardbus controller

# *	TI PCI-1450 Cardbus controller

# *	TI PCI-AC51 Cardbus controller

#

#If the cardbus chipset is not supported, Plan 9 falls back to the

#PCMCIA driver, which handles the Intel i82365, Cirrus Logic

#CL-PD6710, Cirrus Logic CL-PD6720, Vadem VG-46x, and compatibles.

#This covers most laptops.

#

#ETHERNET

#

# *	3Com Etherlink III, PCMCIA (3C589), Fast Etherlink, and Fast

#	Etherlink XL adapters

# *	Intel i82557, i82558, i82559 Fast Ethernet PCI LAN controller

#	(e.g., the Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B)

# *	Digital (now Intel) 21114x PCI Fast Ethernet controller (e.g.,

#	Digital DE-500). Some PNIC and PNIC2-based cards may also work with

#	this driver.

# *	AMD 79C970 PCnet PCI Ethernet controller (e.g., VMware)

# *	National Semiconductor NE2000 or compatible adapter

# *	Lucent Wavelan PCMCIA wireless ethernet adapter (including Dell

#	TrueMobile 1150)

# *	Intersil Prism-based wireless ethernet adapter (including Linksys

#	Instant Wireless PC card)

#

#These cards are supported but not as well used:

# *	Western Digital WD8003

# *	Western Digital WD8013

# *	SMC Elite and Elite Ultra

# *	Linksys Combo EthernetCard and EtherFast 10/100

# *	Accton EtherPair-PCMCIA

# *	Netgear FA410TX

#

#VGA CARDS AND CHIPSETS

#

#For VGA cards more than any other hardware, it is more precise to

#describe the chips we support rather than the cards they are based

#on, since the cards are more ephemeral than the chip sets. Beware:

#different revisions of a card may use different chip sets.

#

#Linux users can look at their X server configuration to see which

#chip set they are using. Windows users can look at ``control panel''

#-> ``display settings'' -> ``display type'' to find out.

#

#Plan 9 uses some basic accelerator for features such as filling and

#scrolling rectangles. We use none of the 3D features on the cards we

#support.

#

#Chipsets used at Bell Labs:

#

# *	ATI Mach64xx

# *	Cirrus Logic CL-GD542x, CL-GD543x, CL-GD544x, CL-GD546x Laguna

# *	Trident Cyber938x

# *	CHIPS hiQVideo (65550, 65554, 69000)

# *	Neomagic MagicGraph

# *	S3 Savage4, Savage IX/MV, SuperSavage IXC/16

# *	S3 ViRGE DX, GX, GX2, MX, VX

# *	3Dfx Voodoo 3 1000, 2000, and 3000

# *	Nvidia TNT

# *	Matrox G400

# *	VMware virtual chipset

#

#Chipsets supported in previous releases but not tested in current

#system:

#

# *	XXX

#

#Cards used at Bell Labs:

#

# *	XXX

#

#Cards used elsewhere and tested with the release:

#

# *	(none yet)

#

#Cards supported in previous releases but not tested in current

#system:

#

# *	XXX

#

#AUDIO

#

#Supported audio devices:

#

# *	Sound Blaster 16 or later, ISA card

# *	ESS 1688 running in 8-bit SBPro mode

# *	most USB audio devices

#

#Supported but not as well used:

#

# *	Any Sound Blaster 16 clones (NOT Sound Blaster Pro clones)

#

#KEYBOARDS

#

#Any PS/2 keyboard should work.

#

#MICE

#

#Plan 9 supports PS/2 and PS/2 Intellimouse mice as well as serial

#mice using the Logitech or Microsoft serial mouse protocols. There

#is preliminary support for the scroll wheel and extra buttons as on

#the Toshiba Protégé 3440CT.

#

#Most laptops present their built-in pointing devices as PS/2 mice.

#

#LAPTOPS

#

#Laptops are often the hardest systems to get Plan 9 running on,

#because you can't choose the hardware piece by piece.

#

#The following laptops are known to work in the current release:

#

# *	IBM Thinkpad 560, X20, T23

# *	NEC Versa LX, SX

# *	Toshiba Portégé 3440CT

#

#The following laptops worked in previous releases and may work in

#the current one:

#

# *	AT&T GIS Globalyst 250

# *	NEC Versa 6030X, 6200MX

#