- fix capitalization

- add HARDWARE section based on the hardware notes
- bump document date

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.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd September 18, 2000
.Dd September 13, 2004
.Dt PCN 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm pcn
.Nd "AMD PCnet/PCI fast ethernet device driver"
.Nd "AMD PCnet/PCI Fast Ethernet device driver"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "device miibus"
.Cd "device pcn"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for PCI ethernet adapters and embedded
driver provides support for PCI Ethernet adapters and embedded
controllers based on the AMD PCnet/FAST, PCnet/FAST+, PCnet/FAST III,
PCnet/PRO and PCnet/Home ethernet controller chips.
PCnet/PRO and PCnet/Home Ethernet controller chips.
.Pp
The PCnet/PCI chips include a 100Mbps ethernet MAC and support
The PCnet/PCI chips include a 100Mbps Ethernet MAC and support
both a serial and MII-compliant transceiver interface.
They use a bus master DMA and a scatter/gather descriptor scheme.
The AMD chips provide a mechanism for zero-copy receive,
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.Sq half-duplex
modes.
.It 100baseTX
Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation.
Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
The
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Cm mediaopt
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.Pp
For more information on configuring this device, see
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
.Sh HARDWARE
The
.Nm
driver supports adapters and embedded controllers based on the AMD PCnet/FAST,
PCnet/FAST+, PCnet/FAST III, PCnet/PRO and PCnet/Home Fast Ethernet chips:
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
AMD Am53C974/Am79C970/Am79C974 PCnet-PCI
.It
AMD Am79C970A PCnet-PCI II
.It
AMD Am79C971 PCnet-FAST
.It
AMD Am79C972 PCnet-FAST+
.It
AMD Am79C973/Am79C975 PCnet-FAST III
.It
AMD Am79C976 PCnet-PRO
.It
AMD PCnet/Home HomePNA
.It
Allied-Telesis LA-PCI
.It
Contec C-NET(98)S (PC-98)
.It
NEC SV-98/2-B05, B06
.El
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It "pcn%d: couldn't map ports/memory"