2.1. Підтримуване обладнання

Debian не накладає вимог до апаратного забезпечення окрім вимог до ядер Linux та наборів інструментів GNU. Таким чином, будь-яка архітектура чи платформа, на яку перенесені ядра Linux, libc, gcc тощо, і для якої Debian порт існує, може запускати Debian. Більш докладно про 32-bit PC архітектурні системи, перевірені за допомогою Debian GNU/kFreeBSD можете переглянути за адресою https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/.

Замість спроби описати всі різні конфігурації обладнання, які підтримуються для 32-bit PC, цей розділ містить загальну інформацію та вказівки на те, де можна знайти додаткову інформацію.

2.1.1. Підтримувані архітектури

Debian GNU/Linux 13 supports 9 major architectures and several variations of each architecture known as «flavors».

Архітектура Debian Designation Підархітектура Flavor
AMD64 & Intel 64 amd64    
На основі Intel x86 i386 типові x86-машини default
Xen PV domains only xen
ARM armel Marvell Kirkwood та Orion marvell
ARM із апаратним FPU armhf multiplatform armmp
64-бітна ARM arm64    
64-бітні MIPS (little-endian) mips64el MIPS Malta 5kc-malta
Cavium Octeon octeon
Loongson 3 loongson-3
32-бітні MIPS (little-endian) mipsel MIPS Malta 4kc-malta
Cavium Octeon octeon
Loongson 3 loongson-3
Системи живлення ppc64el IBM POWER8 або новіші машини  
64-бітні IBM S/390 s390x IPL from VM-reader and DASD generic

This document covers installation for the 32-bit PC architecture using the kFreeBSD kernel. If you are looking for information on any of the other Debian-supported architectures take a look at the Debian-Ports pages.

2.1.2. Graphics Hardware Support

Debian's support for graphical interfaces is determined by the underlying support found in X.Org's X11 system, and the kernel. Basic framebuffer graphics is provided by the kernel, whilst desktop environments use X11. Whether advanced graphics card features such as 3D-hardware acceleration or hardware-accelerated video are available, depends on the actual graphics hardware used in the system and in some cases on the installation of additional «firmware» blobs (see Розділ 2.2, «Devices Requiring Firmware»).

Details on supported graphics hardware and pointing devices can be found at https://wiki.freedesktop.org/xorg/. Debian 13 ships with X.Org version 7.7.

2.1.3. Network Connectivity Hardware

Almost any network interface card (NIC) supported by the kFreeBSD kernel should also be supported by the installation system; drivers should normally be loaded automatically.

2.1.3.1. Wireless Network Cards

Wireless networking is in general supported as well and a growing number of wireless adapters are supported by the official kFreeBSD kernel, although many of them do require firmware to be loaded.

If firmware is needed, the installer will prompt you to load firmware. See Розділ 6.4, «Loading Missing Firmware» for detailed information on how to load firmware during the installation.

Wireless NICs that are not supported by the official kFreeBSD kernel can generally be made to work under Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, but are not supported during the installation.

If there is a problem with wireless and there is no other NIC you can use during the installation, it is still possible to install Debian GNU/kFreeBSD using a DVD image. Select the option to not configure a network and install using only the packages available from the DVD. You can then install the driver and firmware you need after the installation is completed (after the reboot) and configure your network manually.

In some cases the driver you need may not be available as a Debian package. You will then have to look if there is source code available in the internet and compile the driver yourself. How to do this is outside the scope of this manual.

2.1.4. Периферійне та інше обладнання

kFreeBSD supports a large variety of hardware devices such as mice, printers, scanners, PCMCIA/CardBus/ExpressCard and USB devices. However, most of these devices are not required while installing the system.