How to Perform Plug and Play I nitiation
Key with PC net-I S A I I
Application Note
TITLE: How to perform Plug and Play Initiation Key with PCnet-ISA II.
KEYWORDS: Am79C961A, PnP, plugplay, auto-config, wakeup, software, ISA.
PRODUCT: Am79C961A PCnet-ISA II Jumperless, Full Duplex Single-Chip
Ethernet Controller for ISA.
VERSION: All silicon revisions.
CROSS REF: AN012001.TXT (PCnet-ISA+)
SYNOPSIS: ISA Plug and Play (PnP) devices are naturally quiescent following
system power-on and the system reset sequence. In order for your
system software to gain control of a Plug and Play device, to
perform activities such as dynamic resource allocation by
Configuration Management or EEPROM programming by a manufacturing
utility, your software must first perform two basic operations:
you must wake up the PnP device; you must allocate system
resources to the device.
This Application Note takes you through the steps necessary to
wake up the PnP Device with the standard Plug and Plug Initiation
Key, or optionally, with the special AMD Initiation Key.
Then we'll cover basic Plug and Play Register initialization for
the PCnet-ISA II Ethernet controller.
Publication#
21617
Rev.
A
Amendment/0
Issue Date:
March 1995
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