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adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol utility to manipulate some of the card parameters. This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross). The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.) Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
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.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998
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.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>. All rights reserved.
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.\" $Id: pn.4,v 1.4 1999/04/14 19:40:08 wpaul Exp $
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.\"
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.Dd November 7, 1998
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.Dt PN 4 i386
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.Os FreeBSD
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm pn
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.Nd
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Lite-On 82c168/82c169 PNIC fast ethernet device driver
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Cd "device pn0"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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driver provides support for PCI ethernet adapters and embedded
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controllers based on the Lite-On 82c168 and 82c169 fast ethernet
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controller chips. This includes the LinkSys LNE100TX, the
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Bay Networks Netgear FA310TX revision D1, the Matrox Networks
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FastNIC 10/100, the Kingston KNE110TX (EtherRx VP),
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and various other commodity fast ethernet cards.
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.Pp
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The Lite-On chips use bus master DMA and are designed to be
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DEC 'tulip' workalikes. Many vendors that formerly based their
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designs around the DEC 21x4x devices are now using the PNIC
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instead. The chips support both an internal transceiver
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and external transceivers via an MII bus. The Lite-On parts are
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advertised as being register compatible with the DEC 21x4x
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controllers, however there are some differences in the way the
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EEPROM and MII access is done. The PNIC controllers support both
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10 and 100Mbps speeds in either full or half duplex.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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driver supports the following media types:
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.It autoselect
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Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
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The user can manually override
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the autoselected mode by adding media options to the
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.Pa /etc/rc.conf
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fine.
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.It 10baseT/UTP
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Set 10Mbps operation. The
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.Ar mediaopt
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option can also be used to select either
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.Ar full-duplex
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or
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.Ar half-duplex modes.
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.It 100baseTX
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Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation. The
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.Ar mediaopt
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option can also be used to select either
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.Ar full-duplex
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or
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.Ar half-duplex
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modes.
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.El
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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driver supports the following media options:
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.It full-duplex
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Force full duplex operation
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.It half-duplex
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Force half duplex operation.
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.El
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.Pp
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Note that the 100baseTX media type is only available if supported
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by the adapter.
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For more information on configuring this device, see
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.Xr ifconfig 8 .
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.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
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.Bl -diag
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.It "pn%d: couldn't map memory"
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A fatal initialization error has occurred.
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.It "pn%d: couldn't map interrupt"
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A fatal initialization error has occurred.
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.It "pn%d: watchdog timeout"
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The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with
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the network connection (cable).
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.It "pn%d: no memory for rx list"
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The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring.
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.It "pn%d: no memory for tx list"
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The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the transmitter ring when
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allocating a pad buffer or collapsing an mbuf chain into a cluster.
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.It "pn%d: chip is in D3 power state -- setting to D0"
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This message applies only to adapters which support power
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management. Some operating systems place the controller in low power
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mode when shutting down, and some PCI BIOSes fail to bring the chip
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out of this state before configuring it. The controller loses all of
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its PCI configuration in the D3 state, so if the BIOS does not set
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it back to full power mode in time, it won't be able to configure it
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correctly. The driver tries to detect this condition and bring
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the adapter back to the D0 (full power) state, but this may not be
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enough to return the driver to a fully operational condition. If
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you see this message at boot time and the driver fails to attach
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the device as a network interface, you will have to perform second
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warm boot to have the device properly configured.
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.Pp
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Note that this condition only occurs when warm booting from another
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operating system. If you power down your system prior to booting
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.Fx ,
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the card should be configured correctly.
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.El
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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 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 3.0 .
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.Sh AUTHOR
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The
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.Nm
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driver was written by
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.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu .
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.Sh BUGS
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The internal NWAY support on the 82c168 chip is horribly broken, which
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means that autoselection will not work, except maybe for half-duplex
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10Mbps links. In order to use other modes (e.g. 100Mbps) it will be
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necessary to
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use
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.Xr ifconfig 8
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to set the interface manually. Autoselection for 82c169 boards using
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MII transceivers should work correctly.
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