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.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd May 11, 2001
.Dd September 3, 2004
.Dt NGE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm nge
.Nd "National Semiconductor PCI gigabit ethernet adapter driver"
.Nd "National Semiconductor PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "device miibus"
.Cd "device nge"
@ -44,34 +44,8 @@
The
.Nm
driver provides support for various NICs based on the National Semiconductor
DP83820 and DP83821 gigabit ethernet controller chips, including the
following:
DP83820 and DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet controller chips.
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX)
.It
D-Link DGE-500T
.It
Asante FriendlyNet GigaNIX 1000TA and 1000TPC
.It
Addtron AEG320T
.It
LinkSys EG1032 (32-bit PCI) and EG1064 (64-bit PCI)
.It
Surecom Technology EP-320G-TX
.It
Netgear GA622T
.It
Netgear GA621
.It
Ark PC SOHO-GA2500T (32-bit PCI) and SOHO-GA2000T (64-bit PCI)
.It
Trendware TEG-PCITX (32-bit PCI) and TEG-PCITX2 (64-bit PCI)
.El
.Pp
All of these NICs are capable of 10, 100 and 1000Mbps speeds over CAT5
copper cable.
The DP83820 supports TBI (ten bit interface) and GMII
transceivers, which means it can be used with either copper or 1000baseX
fiber applications.
@ -111,7 +85,7 @@ or
.Cm half-duplex
modes.
.It Cm 100baseTX
Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation.
Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
The
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Ic mediaopt
@ -127,7 +101,7 @@ and
.Cm half-duplex
modes are supported.
.It Cm 1000baseSX
Set 1000Mbps (gigabit ethernet) operation.
Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
Both
.Cm full-duplex
and
@ -168,6 +142,34 @@ will set a port as a master instead.
.Pp
For more information on configuring this device, see
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
.Sh HARDWARE
The
.Nm
driver supports National Semiconductor DP83820 and DP83821 based
Gigabit Ethernet adapters including:
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX)
.It
D-Link DGE-500T
.It
Asante FriendlyNet GigaNIX 1000TA and 1000TPC
.It
Addtron AEG320T
.It
LinkSys EG1032 (32-bit PCI) and EG1064 (64-bit PCI)
.It
Surecom Technology EP-320G-TX
.It
Netgear GA622T
.It
Netgear GA621
.It
Ark PC SOHO-GA2500T (32-bit PCI) and SOHO-GA2000T (64-bit PCI)
.It
Trendware TEG-PCITX (32-bit PCI) and TEG-PCITX2 (64-bit PCI)
.El
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It "nge%d: couldn't map memory"