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Plug-and-Play-HOWTO
David S.Lawyer
mailto:dave@lafn.org
v1.08, June 2004
Help with understanding and dealing with the complex Plug-and-Play (PnP) issue. How to get PnP to work on your PC (if it doesn't already). It doesn't cover what's called "Universal Plug and Play" (UPnP). See Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)
1. Introduction
- 1.1 1. Copyright, Trademarks, Disclaimer, & Credits
- 1.2 Future Plans; You Can Help
- 1.3 New Versions of this HOWTO
- 1.4 New in Recent Versions
- 1.5 General Introduction. Do you need this HOWTO?
2. What PnP Should Do: Allocate "Bus-Resources"
- 2.1 What is Plug-and-Play (PnP)?
- 2.2 How a Computer Finds Devices (and conversely)
- 2.3 Addresses
- 2.4 I/O Addresses and Allocating Them
- 2.5 Memory Ranges
- 2.6 IRQs --Overview
- 2.7 DMA Channels
- 2.8 "Resources" for both Device and Driver
- 2.9 The Problem
3. The Plug-and-Play (PnP) Solution
- 3.1 Introduction to PnP
- 3.2 How It Works (simplified)
- 3.3 Starting Up the PC
- 3.4 Buses
- 3.5 How Linux Does PnP
4. Setting up a PnP BIOS
- 4.1 Do you have a PnP operating system?
- 4.2 How are bus-resources to be controlled?
- 4.3 Reset the configuration?
5. How to Deal with PnP Cards
- 5.1 Introduction to Dealing with
- 5.2 Device Driver Configures, Reserving Resources
- 5.3 BIOS Configures
- 5.4 ISA cards only: Disable PnP ?
- 5.5 ISA Bus: Isapnp (part of isapnptools)
- 5.6 PCI Utilities
- 5.7 Windows Configures
- 5.8 PnP Software/Documents
6. Tell the Driver the Configuration
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Serial Port Driver Example
- 6.3 Some Sound Card Driver Examples (from year 2000)
7. How Do I Find Devices and How Are They Configured?
- 7.1 Finding and How-Configured Are Related
- 7.2 Devices Have Two "Configurations"
- 7.3 Finding Hardware
- 7.4 Boot-time Messages
- 7.5 The /proc and /sys Directory Trees
- 7.6 PCI Bus Inspection
- 7.7 ISA Bus Introduction
- 7.8 ISA PnP cards
- 7.9 Non-PnP Cards
- 7.10 Non-PnP Cards with jumpers
- 7.11 Neither PnP nor jumpers
- 7.12 Use MS Windows
8. PnP for External and Plug-in Devices
9. Error Messages
- 9.1 Unexpected Interrupt
- 9.2 Plug and Play Configuration Error (Dell BIOS)
- 9.3 isapnp: Write Data Register 0xa79 already used (from logs)
10. Appendix
- 10.1 Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)
- 10.2 Address Details
- 10.3 ISA Bus Configuration Addresses (Read-Port etc.)
- 10.4 Interrupts --Details
- 10.5 PCI Interrupts
- 10.6 ISA Isolation
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