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This section contains both devices which may be configured into the system and network related information. The networking support is introduced in netintro(4).
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.
The autoconfiguration system is described in autoconf(4). A list of the supported devices is given below.
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man page first appeared in
NetBSD 4.0.
The pnpbus is a pseudo-bus which is a configuration interface for certain devices on PReP machines. These devices are defined in the PReP residual data with configuration information, similar to isapnp(4). The underlying bus is generally ISA.
ISA devices are supported through the isa(4) bus and associated devices.
PCI devices are supported through the pci(4) bus and associated devices.
USB devices are supported through the usb(4) bus and associated devices.
Additionally, the following specific devices are supported:
February 17, 2017 | NetBSD 9.4 |