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.Dd May 16, 1999
.Dt INTRO 4 i386
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm intro
.Nd introduction to special files and hardware support
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The manual pages in section 4 describe the special files, 
related driver functions, and networking support
available in the system.
In this part of the manual, the
.Tn SYNOPSIS
section of
each configurable device gives a sample specification
for use in constructing a system description for the
.Xr config 8
program.
The
.Tn DIAGNOSTICS
section lists messages which may appear on the console
and/or in the system error log
.Pa /var/log/messages
due to errors in device operation;
see
.Xr syslogd 8
for more information.
.Pp
This section contains both devices
which may be configured into the system
and network related information.
The networking support is introduced in
.Xr netintro 4 .
.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
.Em device driver ,
or it may be used within the networking subsystem and have a
.Em network interface driver .
Block and character devices are accessed through files in the file
system of a special type; see
.Xr mknod 8 .
Network interfaces are indirectly accessed through the interprocess
communication facilities provided by the system; see
.Xr socket 2 .
.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.
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,
the system will have to be rebooted.
.Pp
The autoconfiguration system is described in
.Xr autoconf 4 .
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.
Devices are indicated by their functional interface.
Not all supported devices are listed.
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width speaker -compact -offset indent
.It aac
Adaptec "FSA" family (Adaptec AAC, Dell PERC, HP NetRaid) RAID controllers.
.It aha
Adaptec 154x ISA SCSI adapter boards.
.It ahb
Adaptec 1742 EISA SCSI adapter boards.
.It ahc
Adaptec 2xxx and 3xxx series PCI/VLB/EISA SCSI adapter boards.
.It adv
AdvanSys PCI narrow SCSI Host Adapters.
.It adw
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.
.It an
Aironet Communications 4500/4800 IEEE 802.11DS wireless network adapter.
.It apm
advanced power management.
.It aria
Sierra Semiconductor Aria 16 sound cards.
.It ast
multiplexing serial communications card first made by AST.
.It auich
Intel 82801AA/AB/BA and 440MX PCI audio.
.It auvia
VIA VT82C686A integrated AC'97 audio device.
.It ax
ASIX AX88104A and AX88141 based PCI Ethernet adapters.
.It bktr
Brooktree video capture.
.It boca
BOCA serial cards.
.It bt
Buslogic BT-445, BT-74x, and BT-9xx SCSI boards.
.It cac
Compaq Smart ARRAY RAID controllers.
.It com
NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based asynchronous serial
communications.
.It cy
Cyclades Cyclom-4Y, -8Y, and -16Y asynchronous serial communications.
.It dc
DEC tulip clone ethernet cards (Macronix, Lite-On, Davicom, ADMtek).
.It de
DEC tulip-based ethernet cards.
.It dpt
DPT SmartCache/SmartRAID III and IV SCSI controllers.
.It ec
3Com Etherlink II Ethernet (3C503).
.It ef
3Com Fast Etherlink ISA Ethernet (3C515).
.It eg
3Com EtherLink Plus Ethernet (3C505).
.It el
3Com EtherLink Ethernet (3C501).
.It ep
3Com Etherlink III Ethernet (3C5x9, 3C59x).
.It ex
Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 ethernet cards.
.It gdt
ICP-Vortex GDT RAID controllers.
.It hifn
Hi/Fn 7751 Encryption Accelerator.
.It ie
.At StarLAN 10 ,
EN100, StarLan Fiber, and 3Com 3c507 Ethernet.
.It iha
Initio INIC-940 and INIC-950 based SCSI interfaces.
.It iop
I2O adapter.
.It ises
Pijnenburg PCC-ISES hardware crypto accelerator.
.It isp
QLogic PCI SCSI controllers.
.It iy
Ether-Express PRO/10.
.It joy
Joystick.
.It le
BICC Isolan, Novell NE2100, and Digital DEPCA Ethernet.
.It lms
Logitech-style bus mouse.
.It lpt
Parallel port.
.It mcd
Mitsumi CD-ROM drives.
.It mms
Microsoft-style bus mouse.
.It ncr
NCR PCI SCSI adapter boards.
.It ne
Novell NE1000 and 2000 Ethernet interface.
.It npx
Numeric Processing Extension coprocessor and emulator.
.It pctr
CPU performance counter registers.
.It pms
PS/2 auxiliary port mouse.
.It pn
Lite-On 82c168/82c169 PNIC ethernet.
.It rtfps
Another multiplexing serial communications card.
.It rl
RealTek 8129/8139 Ethernet.
.It sb
Sound Blaster card.
.It sea
Seagate/Future Domain SCSI cards.
ST01/02, Future Domain TMC-885, and Future Domain TMC-950.
.It sk
SysKonnect 984x Gigabit Ethernet (9841/9842/9843/9844).
.It speaker
console speaker.
.It ti
Alteon Tigon I & II Gigabit ethernet (3COM 3C985, Netgear GA620, etc).
.It tl
Texas Instruments ThunderLAN ethernet
.It twe
3ware Escalade RAID controller.
.It tx
SMC 9432 10/100 Mbps Ethernet cards.
.It ubsec
Broadcom Bluesteelnet uBsec 5501, 5601, 5805, and 5820.
.It uha
Ultrastor ISA and EISA SCSI adapter cards.
Ultrastor 14f, Ultrastor 34f, and Ultrastor 24f.
.It vr
VIA Rhine Ethernet.
.It wb
Winbond W89C840F fast ethernet.
.It wdc
Standard ISA Western Digital type hard drives.
MFM, RLL, ESDI, and IDE.
.It wds
WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
.It wdt
Industrial Computer Source PCI-WDT50x watchdog timer cards.
.It we
Western Digital/SMC WD 80x3, SMC Elite Ultra and SMC EtherEZ Ethernet cards.
.It wt
Wangtek and compatible tape drives.
QIC-02 and QIC-36.
.It wx
Intel 82452 Pro/1000 Gigabit Ethernet.
.It xl
3COM Etherlink XL and Fast Etherlink XL (3c9xx).
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr autoconf 4 ,
.Xr config 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
i386
.Nm intro
first appeared in
.Nx 1.0 .