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authorMike Pechkin <mpech@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-10-05 14:45:55 +0000
committerMike Pechkin <mpech@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-10-05 14:45:55 +0000
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+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/intro.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: intro.4,v 1.25 2001/10/04 22:03:45 miod Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: intro.4,v 1.26 2001/10/05 14:45:54 mpech Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1994 Christopher G. Demetriou
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ The networking support is introduced in
.Sh 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
+Software support for these devices comes in two forms.
+A hardware device may be supported with a character or block
.Em device driver ,
or it may be used within the networking subsystem and have a
.Em network interface driver .
@@ -77,9 +77,10 @@ communication facilities provided by the system; see
.Pp
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.
+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,
@@ -90,7 +91,8 @@ The autoconfiguration system is described in
A list of the supported devices is given below.
.Sh LIST OF DEVICES
The devices listed below are supported in this incarnation of
-the system. Pseudo-devices are not listed.
+the system.
+Pseudo-devices are not listed.
Devices are indicated by their functional interface.
Not all supported devices are listed.
.Pp
@@ -110,7 +112,8 @@ AdvanSys PCI wide SCSI Host Adapters.
.It aic
Adaptec AIC-6260, Adaptec AIC-6360, Adaptec 152x, and SoundBlaster SCSI boards.
.It ami
-American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID Controllers.
+American Megatrends Inc.
+MegaRAID Controllers.
.It an
Aironet Communications 4500/4800 IEEE 802.11DS wireless network adapter.
.It apm