April 3, 2003 WAX 4 hp700

### NAME

wax - GSC bus controller and I/O subsystem

### SYNOPSIS

wax* at mainbus0 wax* at phantomas? gsc* at wax?

### DESCRIPTION

The wax GSC bus controller is a version of lasi(4) with limited functionality and no additional devices on the crystal. It is mainly used as a GSC bus controller for additional onboard devices (e.g. 2nd RS232 or HIL) and sometimes add-on cards (such as a TR-9000 card for the HP 9000/712 models).

### MACHINES

An incomplete list of machines that use the wax bus controller:

- 712/* add-on cards
- 715/{64/80/100}[XC]
- 725/100
- 743/*
- 744/*
- 748[i]
- B132L[+], B160L, B180L+
- C100, C110, C132L, C160L, C160, C180, C200, C240, C360
- J200, J210[XC], J280, J282, J2240
- all D-Class machines

### SEE ALSO

asp(4), gsc(4), intro(4), io(4), lasi(4), phantomas(4)

### HISTORY

The wax driver appeared in OpenBSD3.4. It was ported to NetBSD1.6 by Matthew Fredette.