- Talk about chips rather than chip sets as AMD LANCE and PCnet are
single-chip. - Add some more rationale about le(4). - Add/un-comment hardware notes for C-Bus and ISA adapters.
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.\" from: @(#)le.4 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd January 30, 2006
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.Dd September 4, 2006
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.Dt LE 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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@ -56,13 +56,21 @@ module at boot time, place the following line in
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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if_le_load="YES"
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.Ed
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.\" .Pp
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.\" In
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.\" .Pa /boot/device.hints :
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.\" .Cd hint.le.0.at="isa"
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.\" .Cd hint.le.0.port="0x280"
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.\" .Cd hint.le.0.irq="10"
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.\" .Cd hint.le.0.drq="0"
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.Pp
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For C-Bus non-PnP cards, the port address and the IRQ number have to be
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specified in
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.Pa /boot/device.hints :
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.Cd hint.le.0.at="isa"
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.Cd hint.le.0.port="0x03d0"
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.Cd hint.le.0.irq="6"
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.Pp
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For ISA non-PnP cards, the port address as well as the IRQ and the DRQ
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numbers have to be specified in
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.Pa /boot/device.hints :
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.Cd hint.le.0.at="isa"
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.Cd hint.le.0.port="0x280"
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.Cd hint.le.0.irq="10"
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.Cd hint.le.0.drq="0"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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@ -71,33 +79,39 @@ driver provides support for Ethernet adapters based on the
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Am7990 and Am79C90 (CMOS, pin-compatible)
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Local Area Network Controller for Ethernet
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.Pq Tn LANCE
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chip set.
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chips.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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driver also supports PCnet adapters based on the
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driver also supports Ethernet adapters based on the
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.Tn AMD 79C9xx
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family of chips, which are single-chip implementations of a
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.Tn LANCE
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chip and a DMA engine.
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This includes a superset of the
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.Tn PCI
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bus Ethernet chip sets supported by the
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bus Ethernet chips supported by the
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.Xr pcn 4
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driver.
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The
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.Nm
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driver treats all of these
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.Tn PCI
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bus Ethernet chip sets as an
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bus Ethernet chips as an
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.Tn AMD Am79C970 PCnet-PCI
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and does not support the additional features like the MII bus and burst mode of
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.Tn AMD Am79C971 PCnet-FAST
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and greater chip sets.
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and greater chips.
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Thus the
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.Xr pcn 4
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driver should be preferred for the latter.
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.Pp
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Generally, the
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.Nm
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driver aims at supporting as many different chips on as many different
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platforms as possible,
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partially at the cost of the best performance with some of these.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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driver supports reception and transmission of extended frames for
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@ -106,21 +120,78 @@ Selective reception of multicast Ethernet frames is provided by a 64-bit mask;
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multicast destination addresses are hashed to a bit entry using the Ethernet
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CRC function.
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.Sh HARDWARE
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.\" .Ss ISA
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.\" The
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.\" .Tn ISA
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.\" bus Ethernet cards supported by the
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.\" .Nm
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.\" driver are:
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.\" .Pp
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.\" .Bl -bullet -compact
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.\" .It
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.\" .Tn BICC Isolan
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.\" .It
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.\" .Tn Novell NE2100
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.Ss C-Bus and ISA
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The
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.Nm
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driver supports
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.Tn C-Bus
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and
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.Tn ISA
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bus Ethernet adapters which are based on the following chips:
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.Pp
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.Bl -bullet -compact
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.It
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.Tn AMD Am7990 and Am79C90 LANCE
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.It
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.Tn AMD Am79C960 PCnet-ISA
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.It
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.Tn AMD Am79C961 PCnet-ISA+
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.It
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.Tn AMD Am79C961A PCnet-ISA II
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.El
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.Pp
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This includes support for the following Ethernet adapters:
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.Pp
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C-Bus non-PnP:
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.Pp
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.Bl -bullet -compact
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.It
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.Tn Contec C-NET(98)S
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.El
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.Pp
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ISA non-PnP:
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.Pp
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.Bl -bullet -compact
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.It
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.Tn BICC Isolan
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.\" .It
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.\" .Tn Digital DEPCA
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.\" .El
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.It
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.Tn Novell NE2100
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.El
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.Pp
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ISA PnP:
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.Pp
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.Bl -bullet -compact
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.It
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.Tn AMD AM1500T/AM2100
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.It
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.Tn AMD PCnet-32
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.It
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.Tn AMD PCnet-ISA
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.It
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.Tn Boca LANCard Combo
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.It
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.Tn Cabletron E2100 Series DNI
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.It
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.Tn Cabletron E2200 Single Chip
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.It
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.Tn Melco Inc. LGY-IV
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.It
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.Tn Novell NE2100
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.It
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.Tn Racal InterLan EtherBlaster
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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 does not support the selection of media types and options via
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.Xr ifconfig 8
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with
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.Tn C-Bus
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and
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.Tn ISA
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bus Ethernet adapters.
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.\" .Ss EISA
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.\" The
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.\" .Tn EISA
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@ -148,7 +219,7 @@ CRC function.
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.Ss PCI
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The
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.Tn PCI
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bus Ethernet chip sets supported by the
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bus Ethernet chips supported by the
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.Nm
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driver are:
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.Pp
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@ -171,7 +242,7 @@ driver are:
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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 with these chip sets:
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driver supports the following media types with these chips:
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.It autoselect
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