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author | Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-05-31 21:44:26 +0000 |
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committer | Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-05-31 21:44:26 +0000 |
commit | c678bc4f13a340ad88debe321afd0097db2590cb (patch) | |
tree | 8d9fc908dd4a89b56b89e7d6e616cb4dd9ced2e3 /share/man/man4/lge.4 | |
parent | b368031d99af07e50db6f73ed50f675cd822541c (diff) |
Add device driver support for the Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator
gigabit ethernet controller chip. This device is used on some
fiber optic gigE cards from SMC, D-Link and Addtron. Jumbograms and
TCP/IP checksum offload on receive are supported. Hardware VLAN
filtering is not, because it doesn't play well with our existing
VLAN code. Also add manual page.
There is a 4.x version of this driver available at
http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Level1/4.x if anyone feels adventurous
and wants to test it. I still need to do performance testing and
tuning with this device.
(For my next trick, I will make the 3Com 3cR990 sit up and beg.)
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=77542
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/lge.4 b/share/man/man4/lge.4 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f8de355705b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/lge.4 @@ -0,0 +1,141 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2001 Wind River Systems +.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 +.\" Bill Paul <william.paul@windriver.com>. 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. +.\" 3. 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IN NO EVENT SHALL Bill Paul OR THE VOICES IN HIS HEAD +.\" 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 May 30, 2001 +.Dt LGE 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm lge +.Nd "Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator PCI gigabit ethernet adapter driver" +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "device miibus" +.Cd "device lge" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for various NICs based on the Level 1 LXT1001 +NetCellerator gigabit ethernet controller chip, including the +following: +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +SMC TigerCard 1000 (SMC9462SX) +.It +D-Link DGE-500SX +.El +.Pp +These NICs are capable of 1000mbps speeds over fiber optic cable. +The LXT1001 also supports a GMII port for use with 10/100/1000 copper +PHYs, however there aren't currently any NICs on the market that use +this feature. +.Pp +The LXT1001 supports TCP/IP checksum offload for receive and +VLAN-based filtering as well as a 64-bit multicast hash filter. +It also supports jumbo frames, which can be configured +via the interface MTU setting. +Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the +.Xr ifconfig 8 +utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit jumbo frames. +Using jumbo frames can greatly improve performance for certain tanges, +such as file transfers and data streaming. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media types: +.Bl -tag -width 1000baseSX +.It Cm autoselect +Enable autoselection of the media type and options. +The user can manually override +the autoselected mode by adding media options to +.Xr rc.conf 5 . +.It Cm 1000baseSX +Set 1000baseSX operation over fiber optic cable. Both +.Cm full-duplex +and +.Cm half-duplex +modes are supported. +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media options: +.Bl -tag -width full-duplex +.It Cm full-duplex +Force full duplex operation. +.It Cm half-duplex +Force half duplex operation. +.El +.Pp +For more information on configuring this device, see +.Xr ifconfig 8 . +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "lge%d: couldn't map memory" +A fatal initialization error has occurred. +.It "lge%d: couldn't map ports" +A fatal initialization error has occurred. +.It "lge%d: couldn't map interrupt" +A fatal initialization error has occurred. +.It "lge%d: no memory for softc struct!" +The driver failed to allocate memory for per-device instance information +during initialization. +.It "lge%d: failed to enable memory mapping!" +The driver failed to initialize PCI shared memory mapping. +This might +happen if the card is not in a bus-master slot. +.It "lge%d: no memory for jumbo buffers!" +The driver failed to allocate memory for jumbo frames during +initialization. +.It "lge%d: watchdog timeout" +The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with +the network connection (cable). +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr ng_ether 4 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Rs +.%T Level 1 LXT1001 Programming Manual +.%O http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Level1/LXT1001SRM.pdf +.Re +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +device driver first appeared in +.Fx 5.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Bill Paul Aq william.paul@windriver.com . |