NAME
intro —
introduction to i386 special
files and hardware support
DESCRIPTION
This section describes the special files, related driver functions, and
networking support available in the system. In this part of the manual, the
SYNOPSIS section of each configurable device gives a sample specification for
use in constructing a system description for the
config(1) program. The
DIAGNOSTICS section lists messages which may appear on the console and/or in
the system error log
/var/log/messages due to errors in
device operation; see
syslogd(8) for more
information.
This section contains both devices which may be configured into the system and
network related information. The networking support is introduced in
netintro(4).
DEVICE SUPPORT
This section describes the hardware supported on the i386 (PC-clone) platform.
Software support for these devices comes in two forms. A hardware device may
be supported with a character or block
device driver, or it
may be used within the networking subsystem and have a
network
interface driver. Block and character devices are accessed through files
in the file system of a special type; see
mknod(8). Network interfaces
are indirectly accessed through the interprocess communication facilities
provided by the system; see
socket(2).
A hardware device is identified to the system at configuration time and the
appropriate device or network interface driver is then compiled into the
system. When the resultant system is booted, the autoconfiguration facilities
in the system probe for the device and, if found, enable the software support
for it. If a device does not respond at autoconfiguration time it is not
accessible at any time afterwards. To enable a device which did not
autoconfigure, the system must be rebooted.
The autoconfiguration system is described in
i386/autoconf(4). A
list of the supported devices is given below.
LIST OF DEVICES
The devices listed below are supported in this incarnation of the system.
Devices are indicated by their functional interface. Not all supported devices
are listed.
Standard builtin devices:
- com
- NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based asynchronous serial
communications device interface
- lpt
- Parallel port device interface
- fdc
- Standard NEC 765 floppy disk controller.
- mca
- MCA I/O bus.
- mem
- Main memory interface
- pci
- PCI I/O bus.
- eisa
- EISA I/O bus, either as main bus or via PCI-EISA
bridge.
- isa
- ISA bus and ISA devices, either as main bus or via PCI-ISA
bridge.
- isa
- isa I/O bus.
- isapnp
- ``bus'' for ISA devices with PnP support.
- speaker
- console speaker device interface
PCMCIA devices are supported through the
pcmcia(4) bus and associated
device drivers.
Cardbus devices are supported through the
cardbus(4) bus and
associated device drivers.
USB devices are supported through the
usb(4) bus and associated device
drivers.
Console devices using ISA, EISA, or PCI video adaptors and standard AT or PS/2
keyboards are supported by the machine independent
wscons(4) console driver.
Disk, tape and SCSI devices:
- aha
- Adaptec 154x ISA SCSI adapter boards.
- ahb
- Adaptec 1742 EISA SCSI adapter boards.
- ahc
- Adaptec 274x, 284x, 2940 and 3940 VL/EISA/PCI SCSI adapter
boards.
- aic
- Adaptec AIC-6260, Adaptec AIC-6360, Adaptec 152x, and
SoundBlaster SCSI boards.
- bha
- Buslogic BT-445 (ISA), BT-74x (EISA), and BT-9[45][68]
(PCI) SCSI boards.
- mcd
- Mitsumi CD-ROM drives.
- ncr
- Symbios (formerly NCR) PCI SCSI adapter boards.
- pciide
- PCI IDE controllers.
- sea
- Seagate/Future Domain SCSI cards. ST01/02, Future Domain
TMC-885, and Future Domain TMC-950.
- uha
- Ultrastor ISA and EISA SCSI adapter cards. Ultrastore 14f,
Ultrastore 34f, and Ultrastore 24f.
- wdc
- Standard ISA Western Digital type hard drives controllers.
MFM, RLL, ESDI, and IDE.
- wt
- Wangtek and compatible ISA controllers for QIC-02 and
QIC-36 tapes.
Network interfaces:
- de
- Ethernet driver for dc21040, dc21042, and dc21140-based
10Mbit and 100Mbit PCI Ethernet adaptors, including DE-430, DE-450 DE-500,
SMC EtherPower, and Znyx.
- fea, fpa
- FDDI driver for Digital DEFEA (EISA) and DEFPA FDDI
adaptors.
- ed
- Western Digital/SMC 80x3 and Ultra, 3Com 3c503, and Novell
NE1000 and 2000 Ethernet interface
- eg
- 3Com 3c505 Ethernet board.
- el
- 3Com 3c501 Ethernet board.
- ep
- 3Com EtherLink III (3c5x9) Ethernet interface
- ie
- Ethernet driver for the AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, StarLan
Fiber, and 3Com 3c507.
- iy
- Ethernet driver for the ISA Intel EtherExpress PR0/10
adaptor.
- le
- Ethernet driver for BICC Isolan, Novell NE2100, Digital
DEPCA cards, and PCnet-PCI cards.
- tl
- Ethernet driver for ThunderLAN-based Ethernet adaptor.
Serial communication cards:
- ast
- multiplexing serial communications card first made by
AST.
- boca
- Boca BB100[48] and BB2016 multiplexing serial
communications cards. NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based asynchronous
serial communications device interface, or internal modems that provide a
serial-chip compatible interface.
- cy
- Cyclades Cyclom-4Y, -8Y, and -16Y asynchronous serial
communications device interface
- rtfps
- a multiplexing serial communications card derived from IBM
PC/RT hardware.
Sound cards:
- gus
- Gravis Ultrasound non-PnP soundcards.
- guspnp
- Gravis Ultrasound PnP soundcards.
- pas
- ProAudio Spectrum soundcards.
- pss
- Personal Sound System-compatible soundcards, including
Cardinal Digital SoundPro 16 and Orchid Soundwave 32.
- sb
- Soundblaster, Soundblaster 16, and Soundblaster Pro
soundcards.
- wss
- Windows Sound System-compatible sound cards based on the
ad1848 chip.
Mouse and pointer devices:
- joy
- joystick game adaptor
- lms
- Logitech-style bus mouse device interface
- mms
- Microsoft-style bus mouse device interface
- pms
- PS/2 auxiliary port mouse device interface
Serial mice can be configured on any supported serial port.
SEE ALSO
config(1),
i386/autoconf(4),
netintro(4)
HISTORY
The i386
intro appeared in
NetBSD
1.0.