1.\" $NetBSD: intro.4,v 1.16 2000/07/05 16:13:48 msaitoh Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Jonathan Stone 4.\" Copyright (c) 1994 Christopher G. Demetriou 5.\" All rights reserved. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 16.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 17.\" This product includes software developed for the 18.\" NetBSD Project. See http://www.netbsd.org/ for 19.\" information about NetBSD. 20.\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 21.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 22.\" 23.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 25.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 26.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 27.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 28.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 29.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 30.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 31.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 32.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" <<Id: LICENSE,v 1.2 2000/06/14 15:57:33 cgd Exp>> 35.\" 36.Dd 37.Dt INTRO 4 i386 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm intro 41.Nd introduction to i386 special files and hardware support 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43This section describes the special files, related driver functions, 44and networking support 45available in the system. 46In this part of the manual, the 47.Tn SYNOPSIS 48section of 49each configurable device gives a sample specification 50for use in constructing a system description for the 51.Xr config 8 52program. 53The 54.Tn DIAGNOSTICS 55section lists messages which may appear on the console 56and/or in the system error log 57.Pa /var/log/messages 58due to errors in device operation; 59see 60.Xr syslogd 8 61for more information. 62.Pp 63This section contains both devices 64which may be configured into the system 65and network related information. 66The networking support is introduced in 67.Xr netintro 4 . 68.Sh DEVICE SUPPORT 69This section describes the hardware supported on the i386 70(PC-clone) platform. 71Software support for these devices comes in two forms. A hardware 72device may be supported with a character or block 73.Em device driver , 74or it may be used within the networking subsystem and have a 75.Em network interface driver . 76Block and character devices are accessed through files in the file 77system of a special type; see 78.Xr mknod 8 . 79Network interfaces are indirectly accessed through the interprocess 80communication facilities provided by the system; see 81.Xr socket 2 . 82.Pp 83A hardware device is identified to the system at configuration time 84and the appropriate device or network interface driver is then compiled 85into the system. When the resultant system is booted, the 86autoconfiguration facilities in the system probe for the device 87and, if found, enable the software support for it. 88If a device does not respond at autoconfiguration 89time it is not accessible at any time afterwards. 90To enable a device which did not autoconfigure, 91the system must be rebooted. 92.Pp 93The autoconfiguration system is described in 94.Xr autoconf 4 . 95A list of the supported devices is given below. 96.Sh LIST OF DEVICES 97The devices listed below are supported in this incarnation of 98the system. Devices are indicated by their functional interface. 99Not all supported devices are listed. 100.\" 101.\" 102.\" 103.Pp 104Standard builtin devices: 105.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent -compact 106.\" 107.\" 108.\" 109.It com 110NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based asynchronous serial 111communications device interface 112.It lpt 113Parallel port device interface 114.It fdc 115Standard NEC 765 floppy disk controller. 116.It mem 117Main memory interface 118.It npx 119Numeric Processing Extension coprocessor and emulator 120.It pci 121PCI I/O bus. 122.It eisa 123EISA I/O bus, either as main bus or via PCI-EISA bridge. 124.It isa 125ISA bus and ISA devices, either as main bus or via PCI-ISA brigde. 126.It isa 127isa I/O bus. 128.It isapnp 129``bus'' for ISA devices with PnP support. 130.It speaker 131console speaker device interface 132.El 133.\" 134.\" 135.\" 136.Pp 137PCMCIA devices are supported through the 138.Xr pcmcia 4 139bus and associated device drivers. 140.\" 141.\" 142.\" 143.Pp 144Cardbus devices are supported through the 145.Xr cardbus 4 146bus and associated device drivers. 147.\" 148.\" 149.\" 150.Pp 151USB devices are supported through the 152.Xr usb 4 153bus and associated device drivers. 154.\" 155.\" 156.\" 157.Pp 158Console devices using ISA, EISA, or PCI video adaptors and standard 159AT or PS/2 keyboards are supported by either the 160.Xr pccons 4 161basic console driver or the 162.Xr vt 4 163multpilexed virtual-console driver and optionally one or more of the following 164pointers: 165.\" 166.\" 167.\" 168.Pp 169Disk, tape and SCSI devices: 170.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent -compact 171.It aha 172Adaptec 154x ISA SCSI adapter boards. 173.It ahb 174Adaptec 1742 EISA SCSI adapter boards. 175.It ahc 176Adaptec 274x, 284x, 2940 and 3940 VL/EISA/PCI SCSI adapter boards. 177.It aic 178Adaptec AIC-6260, Adaptec AIC-6360, Adaptec 152x, and SoundBlaster SCSI boards. 179.It bha 180Buslogic BT-445 (ISA), BT-74x (EISA), and BT-9[45][68] (PCI) SCSI boards. 181.It mcd 182Mitsumi CD-ROM drives. 183.It ncr 184Symbios (formerly NCR) PCI SCSI adapter boards. 185.It pciide 186PCI IDE controllers. 187.It sea 188Seagate/Future Domain SCSI cards. ST01/02, Future Domain TMC-885, and 189Future Domain TMC-950. 190.It uha 191Ultrastor ISA and EISA SCSI adapter cards. Ultrastore 14f, Ultrastore 34f, 192and Ultrastore 24f. 193.It wdc 194Standard ISA Western Digital type hard drives controllers. MFM, RLL, ESDI, and 195IDE. 196.It wt 197Wangtek and compatible ISA controllers for QIC-02 and QIC-36 tapes. 198.El 199.\" 200.\" 201.\" 202.Pp 203Network interfaces: 204.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent -compact 205.It de 206Ethernet driver for dc21040, dc21042, and dc21140-based 10Mbit and 100Mbit 207PCI Ethernet adaptors, including DE-430, DE-450 DE-500, SMC EtherPower, 208and Znyx. 209.It fea, fpa 210FDDI driver for Digital DEFEA (EISA) and DEFPA FDDI adaptors. 211.It ed 212Western Digital/SMC 80x3 and Ultra, 3Com 3c503, and Novell NE1000 and 2000 213Ethernet interface 214.It eg 2153Com 3c505 Ethernet board. 216.It el 2173Com 3c501 Ethernet board. 218.It ep 2193Com Etherlink III (3c5x9) Ethernet interface 220.It ie 221Ethernet driver for the AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, StarLan Fiber, and 3Com 3c507. 222.It iy 223Ethernet driver for the ISA Intel EtherExpress PR0/10 adaptor. 224.It le 225Ethernet driver for BICC Isolan, Novell NE2100, Digital DEPCA cards, 226and PCnet-PCI cards. 227.It tl 228Ethernet driver for ThunderLAN-based Ethernet adaptor. 229.El 230.\" 231.\" 232.\" 233.Pp 234Serial communcation cards: 235.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent -compact 236.It ast 237multiplexing serial communications card first made by AST. 238.It boca 239Boca BB100[48] and BB2016 multiplexing serial communications cards. 240NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based asynchronous serial 241communications device interface, or internal modems that provide 242a serial-chip compatible interface. 243.It cy 244Cyclades Cyclom-4Y, -8Y, and -16Y asynchronous serial communications 245device interface 246.It rtfps 247a multiplexing serial communications card derived from IBM PC/RT hardware. 248.El 249.\" 250.\" 251.\" 252Sound cards: 253.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent -compact 254.It gus 255Gravis Ultrasound non-PnP soundcards. 256.It guspnp 257Gravis Ultrasound PnP soundcards. 258.It pas 259ProAudio Spectrum soundcards. 260.It pss 261Personal Sound System-compatible soundcards, including 262Cardinal Digital SoundPro 16 and Orchid Soundwave 32. 263.It sb 264Soundblaster, Soundblaster 16, and Soundblaster Pro soundcards. 265.It wss 266Windows Sound System-compatible sound cards based on the ad1848 chip. 267.El 268.\" 269.\" 270.\" 271.Pp 272Mouse and pointer devices: 273.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent -compact 274.It joy 275joystick game adaptor 276.It lms 277Logitech-style bus mouse device interface 278.It mms 279Microsoft-style bus mouse device interface 280.It pms 281PS/2 auxiliary port mouse device interface 282.El 283.Pp 284Serial mice can be configured on any supported serial port. 285.Pp 286.\" 287.\" 288.\" 289.Sh SEE ALSO 290.Xr intro 4 , 291.Xr autoconf 4 , 292.Xr netintro 4 , 293.Xr config 8 294.Sh HISTORY 295The 296.Tn i386 297.Nm intro 298appeared in 299.Nx 1.0 . 300