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author | Jason Wright <jason@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-06-29 02:39:54 +0000 |
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committer | Jason Wright <jason@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-06-29 02:39:54 +0000 |
commit | 6a864e2c597ace0a30fa211d94550c83985b5202 (patch) | |
tree | 29cf792f2c1beda2de6abd2e16daa4f5971d3aa1 /share/man | |
parent | ea916d5e55c0308ce62407be3271d31927632d8f (diff) |
sync with freebsd:
remove pnic-ii based boards and note support for onchip xcvr
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/pn.4 | 25 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/pn.4 b/share/man/man4/pn.4 index b2be23e138f..03f37d5fcfb 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/pn.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/pn.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: pn.4,v 1.5 1999/06/05 13:18:34 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: pn.4,v 1.6 1999/06/29 02:39:53 jason Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 .\" Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>. All rights reserved. @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF .\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $FreeBSD: pn.4,v 1.3 1999/01/11 15:38:25 wpaul Exp $ +.\" $FreeBSD: pn.4,v 1.5 1999/05/05 07:36:58 wpaul Exp $ .\" .Dd November 7, 1998 .Dt PN 4 @@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ driver provides support for PCI ethernet adapters and embedded controllers based on the Lite-On 82c168 and 82c169 fast ethernet controller chips. This includes the LinkSys LNE100TX, the Bay Networks Netgear FA310TX revision D1, the Matrox Networks -FastNIC 10/100, certain adapters manufactured by D-Link and -Trendware, and various other commodity fast ethernet cards. +FastNIC 10/100, the Kingston KNE110TX (EtherRx VP), +and various other commodity fast ethernet cards. .Pp The Lite-On chips use bus master DMA and are designed to be DEC 'tulip' workalikes. Many vendors that formerly based their @@ -155,12 +155,11 @@ The driver was written by .An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu . .Sh BUGS -The -.Nm -driver currently only supports cards with external transceivers -connected to the PNIC controller via its MII bus. This is because -the author had no boards available for testing which made use of the -internal transceiver. Most of the PNIC implementations on the market -today use an external PHY, so hopefully this will not present any -serious problems. Code to support the internal transceiver may be -added later if hardware becomes available. +The internal NWAY support on the 82c168 chips is horribly broken, which +means that autoselection will not work, except maybe for half-duplex +10Mbps links. In order to use other modes (e.g. 100Mbps) it will be +necessary to +use +.Xr ifconfig 8 +to set the interface manually. Autoselection for 82c169 boards using +MII transceivers should work correctly. |