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Bill Paul b9f78d2b4a Add a device driver for the Broadcom BCM4401 ethernet controller,
written by Stuart Walsh and Duncan Barclay (with some kibbitzing by
me). I'm checking it in on Stuart's behalf.

The BCM4401 is built into several x86 laptop and desktop systems. For the
moment, I have only enabled it in the x86 kernel config because although
it's a PCI device, I haven't heard of any standalone NICs that use it. If
somebody knows of one, we can easily add it to the other arches.

This driver uses register/structure data gleaned from the Linux
driver released by Broadcom, but does not contain any of the code
from the Linux driver itself. It uses busdma.
2003-09-09 18:17:23 +00:00

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.Dd September 4, 2003
.Dt BFE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm bfe
.Nd Broadcom BCM4401 Ethernet Device Driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "device miibus"
.Cd "device bfe"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for the Broadcom BCM4401 based Fast Ethernet adapters.
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver supports the following media types:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
.It autoselect
Enable autoselection of the media type and options
.It 10baseT/UTP
Set 10Mbps operation
.It 100baseTX
Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation
.El
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver supports the following media options:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
.It full-duplex
Set full duplex operation
.El
.Pp
For further information on configuring this device, see
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
.Pp
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It "bfe%d: couldn't map memory"
A fatal initialization error has occurred.
.It "bfe%d: couldn't map interrupt"
A fatal initialization error has occurred.
.It "bfe%d: failed to allocate DMA resources"
There are not enough mbuf's available for allocation.
.It "bfe%d: watchdog timeout -- resetting"
The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with
the network connection (cable).
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr arp 4 ,
.Xr miibus 4 ,
.Xr netintro 4 ,
.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
device driver first appeared in
.Fx 5.1 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
device driver was written by
.An Stuart Walsh
and
.An Duncan Barclay .
This manual page was written by
.An Stuart Walsh .