108 lines
2.8 KiB
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108 lines
2.8 KiB
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.\" Written by Tom Rhodes for the FreeBSD Project.
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.\" Please see the /usr/src/COPYRIGHT file for copyright information.
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.\"
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.\" This document takes information from the IEEE 802.3 Standard
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.\" along with various comments from Peter Wemm, Robert Watson, and Bill Paul.
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.\" Originally this file looked much like the NetBSD mii(4) manual page, but
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.\" I doubt you would ever notice due to large differences.
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd February 15, 2003
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.Dt MIIBUS 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm miibus
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.Nd IEEE 802.3 Media Independent Interface network bus
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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For most network interface cards (NIC):
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.Cd "device miibus"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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driver provides an interconnection between the Media Access Control (MAC)
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sublayer, the Physical Layer entities (PHY), Station Management (STA)
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entities, and the PHY Layer as defined by the IEEE 802.3 Standard.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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layer allows network device drivers to share common support
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code for various external PHY devices.
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Most 10/100 network interface cards either use an MII transceiver
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or have built-in transceivers that can be programmed using an MII
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interface.
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The
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.Nm
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driver currently handles all of the media detection,
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selection, and reporting using the ifmedia interface.
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A generic driver has been included for all PHYs that are not
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handled by a specific driver, this is possible because all
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10/100 PHYs implement the same general register set along with
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their vendor specific register set.
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.Pp
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The following network device drivers use the
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.Nm
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interface:
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.Bl -tag -compact -width "Supported Devices"
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.It an Aironet 4500/4800 802.11 wireless NICs
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.It aue ADMtek USB Ethernet
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.It awi BayStack 660 and others
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.It bge Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet
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.It cue CATC USB Ethernet
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.It dc DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes
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.It ed NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390 cards
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.It fxp Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558)
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.It kue Kawasaki LSI USB Ethernet
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.It pcn AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100
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.It rl RealTek 8129/8139
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.It sf Adaptec AIC-6915
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.It sis Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016
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.It ste Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX)
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.It tl Texas Instruments ThunderLAN
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.It tx SMC EtherPower II (83c170)
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.It vr VIA Rhine, Rhine II
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.It wb Winbond W89C840F
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.It xl 3Com 3c90x
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.El
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.Sh COMPATIBILITY
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The implementation of
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.Nm
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was originally intended to have similar API interfaces
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to
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.Bxs 3.0
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and
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.Nx ,
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but as a result are not well behaved newbus device drivers.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr an 4 ,
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.Xr arp 4 ,
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.Xr aue 4 ,
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.Xr awi 4 ,
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.Xr bge 4 ,
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.Xr cue 4 ,
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.Xr dc 4 ,
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.Xr ed 4 ,
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.Xr fxp 4 ,
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.Xr kue 4 ,
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.Xr netintro 4 ,
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.Xr pcn 4 ,
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.Xr rl 4 ,
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.Xr sf 4 ,
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.Xr sis 4 ,
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.Xr ste 4 ,
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.Xr tl 4 ,
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.Xr tx 4 ,
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.Xr vr 4 ,
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.Xr wb 4 ,
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.Xr xl 4 .
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.Sh STANDARDS
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More information on MII can be found in the IEEE 802.3 Standard.
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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driver first appeared in
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.Fx 3.3 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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This manual page was written by
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.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org .
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