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41 .Nd introduction to i386 special files and hardware support
43 This section describes the special files, related driver functions,
44 and networking support
45 available in the system.
46 In this part of the manual, the
49 each configurable device gives a sample specification
50 for use in constructing a system description for the
55 section lists messages which may appear on the console
56 and/or in the system error log
58 due to errors in device operation;
63 This section contains both devices
64 which may be configured into the system
65 and network related information.
66 The networking support is introduced in
69 This section describes the hardware supported on the i386
71 Software support for these devices comes in two forms. A hardware
72 device may be supported with a character or block
74 or it may be used within the networking subsystem and have a
75 .Em network interface driver .
76 Block and character devices are accessed through files in the file
77 system of a special type; see
79 Network interfaces are indirectly accessed through the interprocess
80 communication facilities provided by the system; see
83 A hardware device is identified to the system at configuration time
84 and the appropriate device or network interface driver is then compiled
85 into the system. When the resultant system is booted, the
86 autoconfiguration facilities in the system probe for the device
87 and, if found, enable the software support for it.
88 If a device does not respond at autoconfiguration
89 time it is not accessible at any time afterwards.
90 To enable a device which did not autoconfigure,
91 the system must be rebooted.
93 The autoconfiguration system is described in
95 A list of the supported devices is given below.
97 The devices listed below are supported in this incarnation of
98 the system. Devices are indicated by their functional interface.
99 Not all supported devices are listed.
104 Standard builtin devices:
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110 NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based asynchronous serial
111 communications device interface
113 Parallel port device interface
115 Standard NEC 765 floppy disk controller.
119 Main memory interface
121 Numeric Processing Extension coprocessor and emulator
125 EISA I/O bus, either as main bus or via PCI-EISA bridge.
127 ISA bus and ISA devices, either as main bus or via PCI-ISA bridge.
131 ``bus'' for ISA devices with PnP support.
133 console speaker device interface
139 PCMCIA devices are supported through the
141 bus and associated device drivers.
146 Cardbus devices are supported through the
148 bus and associated device drivers.
153 USB devices are supported through the
155 bus and associated device drivers.
160 Console devices using ISA, EISA, or PCI video adaptors and standard
161 AT or PS/2 keyboards are supported by the machine independent
168 Disk, tape and SCSI devices:
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171 Adaptec 154x ISA SCSI adapter boards.
173 Adaptec 1742 EISA SCSI adapter boards.
175 Adaptec 274x, 284x, 2940 and 3940 VL/EISA/PCI SCSI adapter boards.
177 Adaptec AIC-6260, Adaptec AIC-6360, Adaptec 152x, and SoundBlaster SCSI boards.
179 Buslogic BT-445 (ISA), BT-74x (EISA), and BT-9[45][68] (PCI) SCSI boards.
181 Mitsumi CD-ROM drives.
183 Symbios (formerly NCR) PCI SCSI adapter boards.
187 Seagate/Future Domain SCSI cards. ST01/02, Future Domain TMC-885, and
188 Future Domain TMC-950.
190 Ultrastor ISA and EISA SCSI adapter cards. Ultrastore 14f, Ultrastore 34f,
193 Standard ISA Western Digital type hard drives controllers. MFM, RLL, ESDI, and
196 Wangtek and compatible ISA controllers for QIC-02 and QIC-36 tapes.
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205 Ethernet driver for dc21040, dc21042, and dc21140-based 10Mbit and 100Mbit
206 PCI Ethernet adaptors, including DE-430, DE-450 DE-500, SMC EtherPower,
209 FDDI driver for Digital DEFEA (EISA) and DEFPA FDDI adaptors.
211 Western Digital/SMC 80x3 and Ultra, 3Com 3c503, and Novell NE1000 and 2000
214 3Com 3c505 Ethernet board.
216 3Com 3c501 Ethernet board.
218 3Com EtherLink III (3c5x9) Ethernet interface
220 Ethernet driver for the AT\*[Am]T StarLAN 10, EN100, StarLan Fiber, and 3Com 3c507.
222 Ethernet driver for the ISA Intel EtherExpress PR0/10 adaptor.
224 Ethernet driver for BICC Isolan, Novell NE2100, Digital DEPCA cards,
227 Ethernet driver for ThunderLAN-based Ethernet adaptor.
233 Serial communication cards:
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236 multiplexing serial communications card first made by AST.
238 Boca BB100[48] and BB2016 multiplexing serial communications cards.
239 NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based asynchronous serial
240 communications device interface, or internal modems that provide
241 a serial-chip compatible interface.
243 Cyclades Cyclom-4Y, -8Y, and -16Y asynchronous serial communications
246 a multiplexing serial communications card derived from IBM PC/RT hardware.
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254 Gravis Ultrasound non-PnP soundcards.
256 Gravis Ultrasound PnP soundcards.
258 ProAudio Spectrum soundcards.
260 Personal Sound System-compatible soundcards, including
261 Cardinal Digital SoundPro 16 and Orchid Soundwave 32.
263 Soundblaster, Soundblaster 16, and Soundblaster Pro soundcards.
265 Windows Sound System-compatible sound cards based on the ad1848 chip.
271 Mouse and pointer devices:
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274 joystick game adaptor
276 Logitech-style bus mouse device interface
278 Microsoft-style bus mouse device interface
280 PS/2 auxiliary port mouse device interface
283 Serial mice can be configured on any supported serial port.