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diff --git a/share/man/man4/fxp.4 b/share/man/man4/fxp.4 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..5057100a34d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/fxp.4 @@ -0,0 +1,184 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1997 David E. O'Brien +.\" +.\" 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 DEVELOPERS ``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 DEVELOPERS 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 December 15, 2008 +.Dt FXP 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm fxp +.Nd "Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 Ethernet device driver" +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following lines in your +kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device miibus" +.Cd "device fxp" +.Ed +.Pp +Alternatively, to load the driver as a +module at boot time, place the following line in +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +if_fxp_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for Ethernet adapters based on the Intel +i82557, i82558, i82559, i82550, and i82562 chips. +The driver supports TCP/UDP/IP checksum offload for both transmit +and receive on i82550 and i82551. +On i82559 only TCP/UDP checksum offload for receive is supported. +TCP segmentation offload (TSO) for IPv4 as well as VLAN hardware +tag insertion/stripping is supported on i82550 and i82551. +Wake On Lan (WOL) support is provided on all controllers +except i82557, i82259ER and early i82558 revisions. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media types: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +.It autoselect +Enable autoselection of the media type and options +.It 10baseT/UTP +Set 10Mbps operation +.It 100baseTX +Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media options: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +.It full-duplex +Set full duplex operation +.El +.Pp +Note that 100baseTX media type is not available on the Pro/10. +For further information on configuring this device, see +.Xr ifconfig 8 . +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports reception and transmission of extended frames +for +.Xr vlan 4 . +This capability of +.Nm +can be controlled by means of the +.Cm vlanmtu +parameter +to +.Xr ifconfig 8 . +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver also supports a special link option: +.Bl -tag -width link0 +.It Cm link0 +Some chip revisions have loadable microcode which can be used to reduce the +interrupt load on the host cpu. +Not all boards have microcode support. +Setting the +.Cm link0 +flag with +.Xr ifconfig 8 +will download the microcode to the chip if it is available. +.El +.Sh HARDWARE +Adapters supported by the +.Nm +driver include: +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 +.It +Intel InBusiness 10/100 +.It +Intel PRO/100B / EtherExpressPRO/100 B PCI Adapter +.It +Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter +.It +Intel PRO/100 VE Desktop Adapter +.It +Intel PRO/100 VM Network Connection +.It +Intel PRO/100 M Desktop Adapter +.It +Intel PRO/100 S Desktop, Server and Dual-Port Server Adapters +.It +Contec C-NET(PI)-100TX (PC-98) +.It +NEC PC-9821Ra20, Rv20, Xv13, Xv20 internal 100Base-TX (PC-98) +.It +NEC PC-9821X-B06 (PC-98) +.It +Many on-board network interfaces on Intel motherboards +.El +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "fxp%d: couldn't map memory" +A fatal initialization error has occurred. +.It "fxp%d: couldn't map interrupt" +A fatal initialization error has occurred. +.It "fxp%d: Failed to malloc memory" +There are not enough mbuf's available for allocation. +.It "fxp%d: device timeout" +The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with +the network connection (cable). +.It "fxp%d: Microcode loaded, int_delay: %d usec bundle_max: %d" +The chip has successfully downloaded the microcode, and changed the +parameterized values to the given settings. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr altq 4 , +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr miibus 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr ng_ether 4 , +.Xr polling 4 , +.Xr vlan 4 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +device driver first appeared in +.Fx 2.1 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +device driver was written by +.An David Greenman . +It has then been updated to use the busdma API and made endian-clean by +.An Maxime Henrion . +This manual page was written by +.An David E. 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