diff --git a/share/man/man4/Makefile b/share/man/man4/Makefile index 37e32c5aed57..522f75210bc6 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/Makefile +++ b/share/man/man4/Makefile @@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ MAN= aac.4 \ random.4 \ rc.4 \ re.4 \ + rgephy.4 \ rl.4 \ rndtest.4 \ route.4 \ diff --git a/share/man/man4/miibus.4 b/share/man/man4/miibus.4 index 19bd47472c2d..2bcf9c5bfc89 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/miibus.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/miibus.4 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd December 30, 2010 +.Dd January 15, 2011 .Dt MIIBUS 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ but as a result are not well behaved newbus device drivers. .Xr nve 4 , .Xr pcn 4 , .Xr re 4 , +.Xr rgephy 4 , .Xr rl 4 , .Xr rue 4 , .Xr sf 4 , diff --git a/share/man/man4/nfe.4 b/share/man/man4/nfe.4 index 1d0a512018d3..bcefb9f9cac9 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/nfe.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/nfe.4 @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd October 2, 2008 +.Dd January, 2011 .Dt NFE 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ before a change takes effect. .Xr netintro 4 , .Xr pci 4 , .Xr polling 4 , +.Xr rgephy 4 , .Xr sysctl 8 , .Xr ifconfig 8 .Sh HISTORY diff --git a/share/man/man4/re.4 b/share/man/man4/re.4 index 98a0f3a0c42a..35ad73305764 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/re.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/re.4 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd December 2, 2010 +.Dd January, 2011 .Dt RE 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ the network connection (cable). .Xr netintro 4 , .Xr ng_ether 4 , .Xr polling 4 , +.Xr rgephy 4 , .Xr vlan 4 , .Xr ifconfig 8 .Rs diff --git a/share/man/man4/rgephy.4 b/share/man/man4/rgephy.4 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..5fe478ddeebc --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/rgephy.4 @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Marius Strobl +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd January 15 2011 $ +.Dt RGEPHY 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm rgephy +.Nd RealTek RTL8168/8169/8110/8211 series 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet PHY driver +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile all available PHY drivers into the kernel, +place the following line in your kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device miibus" +.Ed +.Pp +Alternatively, to selectively compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following lines in your kernel configuration file instead: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device mii" +.Cd "device rgephy" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver supports the RealTek RTL8168, RTL8169, RTL8110 and RTL8211 series +integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet PHYs. +.Pp +In order to get a list of media types and options supported by a specific +instance of the +.Nm +driver, run +.Li ifconfig -m +on the instance of its parent MAC driver. +.Pp +Additionally, +the +.Nm +driver supports the following special media option: +.Bl -tag -width ".Cm flag0" +.It Cm flag0 +When manually setting media type and options via +.Xr ifconfig 8 , +the +.Nm +driver by default also triggers an autonegotiation advertising the selected +media. +This is done in order work around hardware issues in certain scenarios. +It is believed that this behavior does not cause harm in general but in fact +can have an adverse effect in edge cases. +In order to manually set the media type and options without also triggering +an autonegotiation, +the +.Nm +driver allows to turn this behavior off via the +.Cm flag0 +media option. +.El +.Pp +Note that this special media option will not show up in the output of +.Xr ifconfig 8 , +even when set. +.Sh EXAMPLES +Manually set 100BASE-TX full-duplex without also triggering an +autonegotiation: +.Pp +.Dl "ifconfig re0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex,flag0" +.Sh SEE ALSO +.\".Xr ifmedia 4 , +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr miibus 4 , +.Xr ifconfig 8