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3.8 KiB
Groff
129 lines
3.8 KiB
Groff
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.\" Copyright (c) 1996, Fred Gray
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" This product includes software developed by David Greenman.
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd August 24, 2004
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.Dt VX 4 i386
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm vx
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.Nd 3Com EtherLink III / Fast EtherLink III (3c59x) Ethernet driver
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Cd "device vx"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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driver provides support for the 3Com
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.Dq Vortex
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chipset.
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.Pp
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The medium selection
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can be influenced by the following link flags to the
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.Xr ifconfig 8
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command:
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width LINK0X -compact
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.It Em link0
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Use the AUI port.
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.It Em link1
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Use the BNC port.
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.It Em link2
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Use the UTP port.
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.El
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.Sh HARDWARE
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The
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.Nm
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driver supports the following cards:
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.Pp
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.Bl -bullet -compact
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.It
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3Com 3c590 EtherLink III PCI
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.It
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3Com 3c592 EtherLink III EISA
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.It
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3Com 3c595 Fast EtherLink III PCI in 10 Mbps mode
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.It
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3Com 3c597 Fast EtherLink III EISA in 10 Mbps mode
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.El
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.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
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.Bl -diag
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.It "vx%d: not configured; kernel is built for only %d devices."
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There are not enough devices in the kernel configuration file for the number
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of adapters present in the system.
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Add devices to the configuration file,
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rebuild the kernel, and reboot.
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.El
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.Pp
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All other diagnostics indicate either a hardware problem or a bug in the
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driver.
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.Sh CAVEATS
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Some early-revision 3c590 cards are defective and suffer from many receive
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overruns, which cause lost packets.
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The author has attempted to implement
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a test for it based on the information supplied by 3Com, but the test resulted
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mostly in spurious warnings.
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.Pp
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The performance of this driver is somewhat limited by the fact that it uses
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only polled-mode I/O and does not make use of the bus-mastering capability
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of the cards.
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.Sh BUGS
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The
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.Nm
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driver is known not to reset the adapter correctly following a warm boot
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on some systems.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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driver has not been exhaustively tested with all the models of cards that it
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claims to support.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr arp 4 ,
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.Xr netintro 4 ,
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.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
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.Xr ifconfig 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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device driver first appeared in
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.Fx 2.1 .
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It was derived from the
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.Nm ep
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driver, from which it inherits most of its limitations.
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An -nosplit
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The
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.Nm
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device driver and this manual page were written by
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.An Fred Gray Aq fgray@rice.edu ,
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based on the work of
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.An Herb Peyerl
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and with the assistance of numerous others.
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