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36 .Nd introduction to ISA Plug-and-Play support
42 bus can be configured for each supported ISA bus.
45 provides machine-independent bus support and
46 drivers for ISA Plug-and-Play (isapnp) autoconfiguration of
48 devices on an ISA bus.
51 includes machine-independent ISAPNP drivers, sorted by function
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67 Standard IDE and ATAPI drive controller.
69 .Ss Serial and parallel interfaces
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72 8250/16450/16550-compatible ISA PnP serial cards and internal modems.
74 .Ss Network interfaces
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80 340 series 802.11 interfaces.
82 3Com 3c509B EtherLink III
88 interfaces based on the successor to the AMD LANCE chip.
94 TROPIC based token ring interfaces.
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100 ESS Technology derived PnP sound cards and devices.
102 Gravis Ultrasound PnP sound cards.
104 SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster 16, and SoundBlaster Pro sound cards.
106 Windows Sound System compatible cards, e.g., most of the cards
107 with Crystal Semiconductor chips.
109 Yamaha OPL3-SAx sound cards.
111 .Ss Miscellaneous devices
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116 controllers, including the Cirrus Logic GD6729.
119 ISA Plug-and-Play devices also have alternate ISA drivers with
120 static ISA IO address configuration.
125 bus ignores devices that have already been found and configured as
130 bus is only effective on machines which lack a PnP BIOS, or on
131 which the PnP BIOS has been disabled.
132 The manual pages for each individual
135 the supported front-ends for other buses.