cardbus(4)

cardbus4

Introduction to cardbus support

Usage

cbb* at pci? cardslot* at cbb? cardbus* at cardslot? pcmcia* at cardslot?

Overview

OpenBSD provides machine-independent bus support and drivers for CardBus devices.

OpenBSD provides support for the following devices. Note that not all architectures support all devices.

Wired network interfaces

dc(4)

DEC/Intel 21140/21142/21143/21145 and clones 10/100 Ethernet device

fxp(4)

Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 10/100 Ethernet device

re(4)

Realtek 8139C+/8169/816xS/811xS/8168/810xE 10/100/1Gb Ethernet device

rl(4)

Realtek 8129/8139 10/100 Ethernet device

xl(4)

3Com EtherLink XL and Fast EtherLink XL 10/100 Ethernet device

Wireless network interfaces

acx(4)

TI ACX100/ACX111 IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless network device

ath(4)

Atheros IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless network device with GPIO

athn(4)

Atheros IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless network device

atw(4)

ADMtek ADM8211 IEEE 802.11b wireless network device

bwi(4)

Broadcom AirForce IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device

malo(4)

Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device

pgt(4)

Conexant/Intersil Prism GT Full-MAC IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless network device

ral(4)

Ralink Technology/MediaTek IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless network device

rtw(4)

Realtek RTL8180L IEEE 802.11b wireless network device

Serial interfaces

com(4)

serial communications interface

puc(4)

PCI “universal” communications card driver

Miscellaneous devices

ehci(4)

USB Enhanced Host Controller Interface

ohci(4)

USB Open Host Controller Interface

uhci(4)

USB Universal Host Controller Interface

Releases

55 releases since OpenBSD 2.7; the text changed 21 times.

  1. 2.7
  2. 2.8
  3. 2.9
  4. 3.0–3.1
  5. 3.2
  6. 3.3
  7. 3.4
  8. 3.5
  9. 3.6
  10. 3.7
  11. 3.8
  12. 3.9
  13. 4.0
  14. 4.1
  15. 4.2
  16. 4.3
  17. 4.4
  18. 4.5–4.6
  19. 4.7–5.6
  20. 5.7–5.9
  21. 6.0–6.9
  22. 7.0–8.0

History

The cardbus driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.5. OpenBSD support was added in OpenBSD 2.7.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.