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ISAPNP(4)                 NetBSD Programmer's Manual                 ISAPNP(4)


NAME

     isapnp - introduction to ISA Plug-and-Play support


SYNOPSIS

     isapnp0 at isa?

     An isapnp bus can be configured for each supported ISA bus.


INTRODUCTION

     NetBSD provides machine-independent bus support and drivers for ISA Plug-
     and-Play (isapnp) autoconfiguration of PnP-compatible devices on an ISA
     bus.


SUPPORTED DEVICES

     NetBSD includes machine-independent ISAPNP drivers, sorted by function
     and driver name:

   Serial and parallel interfaces
           com      8250/16450/16550-compatible ISA PnP serial cards and in-
                    ternal modems.

   Network interfaces
           ep       3com 3c509B Etherlink-III Ethernet interface.
           le       PCnet-PnP ethernet interfaces based on the successor to
                    the AMD LANCE chip.

   Sound cards
           sb       Soundblaster, Soundblaster 16, and Soundblaster Pro sound
                    cards.
           guspnp   Gravis Ultrasound PnP sound cards.

     ISA Plug-and-Play devices also have alternate ISA drivers with static ISA
     IO address configuration.  These are listed in isa(4).  The isapnp bus
     ignores  device that have already been found and configured as isa(4) de-
     vices.  The isapnp bus is only effective on machines which lack a PnP
     BIOS, or  on which the PnP BIOS has been disabled.  The manual pages for
     each individual isapnp driver also list the supported front-ends for oth-
     er buses.


SEE ALSO

     com(4),  ep(4),  isa(4),  le(4),  sb(4),  guspnp(4).


HISTORY

     The isapnp driver appeared in NetBSD 1.3.

NetBSD                         February 17, 1997                             1