Lists of supported hardware configurations.

Below you will find supported configurations for each of the flavors of PicoBSD as of version 0.42, as well as the lists of programs included.

Dialup version:

• minimum 386SX CPU (either Intel, AMD, Cyrix etc - doesn't matter),
• minimum 8MB of RAM (some people reported success stories with 4MB only, but I certainly don't recommend it)
• a modem (for Internet connection using PPP protocol), either internal or external, connected to COM1-COM4. NOTE: COM3 and COM4 are disabled by default - you have to explicitly enable them in UserConfig.
• an Ethernet card for LAN connection:
  • ed - default settings: port 0x280, irq 10, iomem 0xd8000

    NE2000 compatible ISA and PCI cards, most SMC and 3C503

  • ep - default settings: port 0x300, irq 10,

    3C509 ISA card

  • ie - default settings: port 0x300, irq 10, iomem 0xd0000

    Intel EtherExpress ISA, StarLan, 3C507

  • le - default settings: port 0x300, irq 5, iomem 0xd0000

    DEC EtherWorks 2 and 3

  • lnc - default settings: port 0x280, irq 10, iomem 0xd0000

    Lance/PCNet

  • de - DEC21040-based PCI cards,
  • fxp - Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI card
• 10 virtual consoles plus console utilities (vidcontrol, kbdcontrol)
• basic networking tools: ifconfig, route, ping, ns (mini-netstat), traceroute
• basic remote access tools: telnet, ftp and SSH
• basic OS tools: shell, mount (FreeBSD, DOS, Linux), umount, ps, kill, vm (mini-vmstat), fsck, df, etc..
• editable configuration (/etc directory and kernel configuration)
• simple editor ee
• simple help system for people new to FreeBSD

Router-like version:

• minimum 386SX CPU,
• minimum 10 MB of RAM (8MB for basic setup)
• support for PPP protocol on dialup/leased lines (using ijppp)
• support for several types of Ethernet cards (two of each kind) - see above for descriptions: ed, ie, ep, de, fxp, lnc
• network daemons: routing daemon (routed), inetd, telnetd, snmpd.
• IP Firewall and NAT daemon (natd).
• more OS utilities, including: syslogd, mount_nfs, network logins via telnet
• this version doesn't include: ssh, ftp

Router version:

• minimum 386SX CPU,
• minimum 4 MB of RAM (6MB for running some additional daemons)
• support for PPP protocol on dialup/leased lines (using kernel ppp)
• support for several types of Ethernet cards - see above for descriptions: ed, ie, ep, de, fxp, lnc
• custom init(8), which includes also a simple command-line interface, and its own way to configure the system on startup.
• IP Firewall and NAT daemon (natd - it requires additional portion of RAM).
• very few OS tools, except those absolutely necessary,

There's also the fourth version, which can serve as a dialin server - I hope you'll find it as a cheap yet reliable alternative to commercial communication servers :-)) This work is still in progress, and I need some people to test the early dial-in server version.