1.\" $NetBSD: intro.4,v 1.8 1997/11/24 06:29:14 lukem 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 by Christopher G. Demetriou. 18.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 19.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission 20.\" 21.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 23.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 24.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 25.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 26.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 27.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 28.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 29.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 30.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.Dd 33.Dt INTRO 4 i386 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm intro 37.Nd introduction to i386 special files and hardware support 38.Sh DESCRIPTION 39This section describes the special files, related driver functions, 40and networking support 41available in the system. 42In this part of the manual, the 43.Tn SYNOPSIS 44section of 45each configurable device gives a sample specification 46for use in constructing a system description for the 47.Xr config 8 48program. 49The 50.Tn DIAGNOSTICS 51section lists messages which may appear on the console 52and/or in the system error log 53.Pa /var/log/messages 54due to errors in device operation; 55see 56.Xr syslogd 8 57for more information. 58.Pp 59This section contains both devices 60which may be configured into the system 61and network related information. 62The networking support is introduced in 63.Xr netintro 4 . 64.Sh DEVICE SUPPORT 65This section describes the hardware supported on the i386 66(PC-clone) platform. 67Software support for these devices comes in two forms. A hardware 68device may be supported with a character or block 69.Em device driver , 70or it may be used within the networking subsystem and have a 71.Em network interface driver . 72Block and character devices are accessed through files in the file 73system of a special type; see 74.Xr mknod 8 . 75Network interfaces are indirectly accessed through the interprocess 76communication facilities provided by the system; see 77.Xr socket 2 . 78.Pp 79A hardware device is identified to the system at configuration time 80and the appropriate device or network interface driver is then compiled 81into the system. When the resultant system is booted, the 82autoconfiguration facilities in the system probe for the device 83and, if found, enable the software support for it. 84If a device does not respond at autoconfiguration 85time it is not accessible at any time afterwards. 86To enable a device which did not autoconfigure, 87the system must be rebooted. 88.Pp 89The autoconfiguration system is described in 90.Xr autoconf 4 . 91A list of the supported devices is given below. 92.Sh LIST OF DEVICES 93The devices listed below are supported in this incarnation of 94the system. Devices are indicated by their functional interface. 95Not all supported devices are listed. 96.\" 97.\" 98.\" 99.Pp 100Standard builtin devices: 101.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent -compact 102.\" 103.\" 104.\" 105.It com 106NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based asynchronous serial 107communications device interface 108.It lpt 109Parallel port device interface 110.It fdc 111Standard NEC 765 floppy disk controller. 112.It mem 113Main memory interface 114.It npx 115Numeric Processing Extension coprocessor and emulator 116.It pci 117PCI I/O bus. 118.It eisa 119EISA I/O bus, either as main bus or via PCI-EISA bridge. 120.It isa 121ISA bus and ISA devices, either as main bus or via PCI-ISA brigde. 122.It isa 123isa I/O bus. 124.It isapnp 125``bus'' for ISA devices with PnP support. 126.It speaker 127console speaker device interface 128.El 129 130There is no explicit support for PCMCIA. Many PCMCIA devices can 131be preconfigured as ISA equivalents and used with the corresponding 132ISA driver. 133.\" 134.\" 135.\" 136.Pp 137Console devices using ISA, EISA, or PCI video adaptors and standard 138AT or PS/2 keyboards are supported by either the 139.Xr pccons 4 140basic console driver or the 141.Xr vt 4 142multpilexed virtual-console driver and optionally one or more of the following 143pointers: 144.\" 145.\" 146.\" 147.Pp 148Disk, tape and SCSI devices: 149.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent -compact 150.It aha 151Adaptec 154x ISA SCSI adapter boards. 152.It ahb 153Adaptec 1742 EISA SCSI adapter boards. 154.It ahc 155Adaptec 274x, 284x, 2940 and 3940 VL/EISA/PCI SCSI adapter boards. 156.It aic 157Adaptec AIC-6260, Adaptec AIC-6360, Adaptec 152x, and SoundBlaster SCSI boards. 158.It bha 159Buslogic BT-445 (ISA), BT-74x (EISA), and BT-9[45][68] (PCI) SCSI boards. 160.It mcd 161Mitsumi CD-ROM drives. 162.It ncr 163Symbios (formerly NCR) PCI SCSI adapter boards. 164.It sea 165Seagate/Future Domain SCSI cards. ST01/02, Future Domain TMC-885, and 166Future Domain TMC-950. 167.It uha 168Ultrastor ISA and EISA SCSI adapter cards. Ultrastore 14f, Ultrastore 34f, 169and Ultrastore 24f. 170.It wd 171Standard ISA Western Digital type hard drives. MFM, RLL, ESDI, and IDE. 172.It wt 173Wangtek and compatible ISA controllers for QIC-02 and QIC-36 tapes. 174.El 175.\" 176.\" 177.\" 178.Pp 179Network interfaces: 180.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent -compact 181.It de 182Ethernet driver for dc21040, dc21042, and dc21140-based 10Mbit and 100Mbit 183PCI Ethernet adaptors, including DE-430, DE-450 DE-500, SMC EtherPower, 184and Znyx. 185.It fea, fpa 186FDDI driver for Digital DEFEA (EISA) and DEFPA FDDI adaptors. 187.It ed 188Western Digital/SMC 80x3 and Ultra, 3Com 3c503, and Novell NE1000 and 2000 189Ethernet interface 190.It eg 1913Com 3c505 Ethernet board. 192.It el 1933Com 3c501 Ethernet board. 194.It ep 1953Com Etherlink III (3c5x9) Ethernet interface 196.It ie 197Ethernet driver for the AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, StarLan Fiber, and 3Com 3c507. 198.It iy 199Ethernet driver for the ISA Intel EtherExpress PR0/10 adaptor. 200.It le 201Ethernet driver for BICC Isolan, Novell NE2100, Digital DEPCA cards, 202and PCnet-PCI cards. 203.It tl 204Ethernet driver for ThunderLAN-based ethernet adaptor. 205.El 206.\" 207.\" 208.\" 209.Pp 210Serial communcation cards: 211.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent -compact 212.It ast 213multiplexing serial communications card first made by AST. 214.It boca 215Boca BB100[48] and BB2016 multiplexing serial communications cards. 216NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based asynchronous serial 217communications device interface, or internal modems that provide 218a serial-chip compatible interface. 219.It cy 220Cyclades Cyclom-4Y, -8Y, and -16Y asynchronous serial communications 221device interface 222.It rtfps 223a multiplexing serial communications card derived from IBM PC/RT hardware. 224.El 225.\" 226.\" 227.\" 228Sound cards: 229.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent -compact 230.It gus 231Gravis Ultrasound non-PnP soundcards. 232.It guspnp 233Gravis Ultrasound PnP soundcards. 234.It pas 235ProAudio Spectrum soundcards. 236.It pss 237Personal Sound System-compatible soundcards, including 238Cardinal Digital SoundPro 16 and Orchid Soundwave 32. 239.It sb 240Soundblaster, Soundblaster 16, and Soundblaster Pro soundcards. 241.It wss 242Windows Sound System-compatible sound cards based on the ad1848 chip. 243.El 244.\" 245.\" 246.\" 247.Pp 248Mouse and pointer devices: 249.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent -compact 250.It joy 251joystick game adaptor 252.It lms 253Logitech-style bus mouse device interface 254.It mms 255Microsoft-style bus mouse device interface 256.It pms 257PS/2 auxiliary port mouse device interface 258.El 259.Pp 260Serial mice can be configured on any supported serial port. 261.Pp 262.\" 263.\" 264.\" 265.Sh SEE ALSO 266.Xr intro 4 , 267.Xr autoconf 4 , 268.Xr netintro 4 , 269.Xr config 8 . 270.Sh HISTORY 271The 272.Tn i386 273.Nm intro 274appeared in 275.Nx 1.0 . 276