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Last updated 21-Nov-2006

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These programs allow ISA Plug-And-Play devices to be configured on a Linux machine. This program is suitable for all systems which contain ISA bus Plug-and-Play cards, whether or not they include a PnP BIOS. The LSM entry.

Latest news

24-Mar-2007: New version released to fix problem building with gcc4 (Thanks to Michael Shell). See below.
It's probably worth pointing out that I no longer have any ISAPNP hardware, so can no longer test it works. Most people will not need these tools now as the kernel has included support for PNP hardware for some time.
I've also cleared out dead links on this page.
21-Nov-2006: All mail to isapnp and isapnp-announce will now be deleted without being read. If you want to send a mail, try sending to isapnp-2006-11.
3-Sep-2002: Vladimir Popov has sent in an updated patch for OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD. Tested under OpenBSD 3.1-current, NetBSD-1.5.2 and FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE. In the project top level directory, apply the patch thus:
```
  patch -sp1 < bsdspatch.txt
  
```
then configure must be passed the --disable-realtime, --disable-proc and --disable-pci switches.
30-Aug-2002: I've implemented rather draconian email filtering system, so if your emails bounce you may need to get a new email address.
30-Aug-2002: Would *BSD users please report how they get on with the patches below, to indicate how support should be added in ?
30-Aug-2002: A patch for OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD has been received from Vladimir Popov. Tested under OpenBSD 3.1-current. In the project top level directory, apply the patch thus:
```
  patch -sp1 < openbsdpatch.txt
  
```
then configure must be passed the --disable-realtime, --disable-proc and --disable-pci switches.
25-Jul-2002: A patch for BSD/i386 has been received from Ben. In the project top level directory, apply the patch thus:
```
  patch -sp0 < bsdi386patch.txt
  
```
then configure must be passed the --disable-realtime and --disable-pci switches.
13-May-2001: Added another pointer in the references section for Agere (Lucent) winmodems.
09-May-2001: Version 1.26 has been released, this has no functional changes. It integrates the DOS real-mode compilation rather better, removing the need for the dos-rm.zip file. See the changes. MD5 checksums of all the files available. Use md5sum from the GNU textutils package to check. The FAQ is unchanged.
Old news

Reporting problems

Please ensure you are running the latest version before reporting problems. If you still have the problem, and the FAQ doesn't help, please follow these instructions to report it. You may find that by following the instructions you can solve the problem yourself.

Online Documentation

The FAQ is now Revision 0.17. Get the latest version as a text file, a set of html files, or in the sgml source. (See sgmltools). Alternatively, browse the isapnptools FAQ online. See the latest FAQ changes.
isapnp(8) manual page changed in 1.20.
pnpdump(8) manual page changed in 1.22.
isapnp.conf(5) manual page changed in 1.18.
The READMEs etc in the latest distribution README, AUTHORS, NEWS, ChangeLog, README.DOS, README.OS2, README.ide, README.initrd, README.modules, README.lib, INSTALL.

Download the Latest Version

The latest released version is 1.27, released 24-Mar-2007. The latest version may take some time to reach its final location on some sites, so it may be worth trying the appropriate incoming directory if the link fails.

Due to the fact that the isapnp programs must be run as root, I strongly recommend that you recompile from source to ensure your system security.

MD5 checksums of all the files are available, should you want to check against modification or corruption.

The home ftp site for isapnptools is ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/unix/linux/utils/, mirrored at ftp://MetaLab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/hardware/, and their respective mirrors.

Sources and documentation - isapnptools-1.27.tar.gz

MetaLab.unc.edu: ftp site.
ftp.demon.co.uk: ftp site.

Sources, documentation and precompiled binaries - isapnptools-1.27.bin.tar.gz

Reminder: Due to the fact that the isapnp programs must be run as root, I strongly recommend that you recompile from source to ensure your system security.

MD5 checksums of all the files are available, should you want to check against modification or corruption.

Note: The linux binaries are linked for libc6.

Note: The binary distribution includes DOS binaries compiled using DJGPP.

MetaLab.unc.edu: ftp site.

Debian format packages (deb)

See the debian isapnptools package webpage.

Changes

Changes since Release 1.26

General
- Updated to use aclocal, automake etc version 1.10.
isapnp (now v1.26)
- Fixed build for gcc-4.x.

Changes since Release 1.25

General
- Integrated DOS real mode compilation better. doc/README.borland rewritten to suit.
- Added make short-file-names to rename source files for 8.3 systems, make long-file-names reverses.
- Added --enable-static configuration option to build staticly linked programs.

Changes since Release 1.24

General
- Portability increased.
- Library use fixed by removing the need for config.h. Library flags recorded in release.c now.
- Support for DOS real mode compilation added, see README.borland.
pnpdump changes:
- Segmentation violation with -t flag fixed.
- Corrupted resource data would be displayed incorrectly.
isapnp changes:
- Segmentation violation with -t flag fixed.
- Fix incorrect program name identification when wrong number of arguments given.
FAQ changes:
- Added support contacts pointing to disclaimers.
- Improved "No boards found" section: added pointer to res-access.c when using the -D option to pnpdump, added idea to try another board, added cross references to Win95 resource stuff.
- Clarified what activated means.
- Added item about updating the kernel to 2.4.x.
- Added loads of contact information to disclaimers.

See NEWS for the complete list of changes, or the ChangeLog.

References and pointers

Linux Journal Article on configuring ISA PnP sound cards
Linux HOWTOs
Linux HOWTO index
Modem HOWTO section on choosing modems for Linux
The Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.
The Kernel-HOWTO.
The Serial-HOWTO.
The Ethernet-HOWTO.
The PCMCIA-HOWTO.
The Linmodem-HOWTO
Winmodem driver sources for 2.2 and 2.4 kernels.
Agere (Lucent) winmodem drivers and other documents.
Winmodems.
Winmodem information.
How to assemble a cheap Linux box which uses a non PnP modem !
Search for isapnptools on google.
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/respec/pnpspecs.htm - PnP documents on Microsoft website.
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/drg/Plug-and-Play/Pnpspecs/ or http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/respec/pnpspecs.htm. - Microsoft/Intel PnP documents (Self-extracting archives of Word documents).
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/pnp/docs/ - mirror site for Microsoft/Intel PnP documents (Word and Postscript).
Craig Hart's pnp information

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