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authorJason Wright <jason@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-11-21 04:51:58 +0000
committerJason Wright <jason@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-11-21 04:51:58 +0000
commit36bbd6de2388399a425a56dad07c14f87c944784 (patch)
tree54c3360abef320a8a3c64e5696a52dfe80ec63bd /share
parentd1f7a73dfd8018455ba8eacd2daf1e1feabd1f8d (diff)
various man page updates from freebsd
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/ti.482
1 files changed, 49 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/ti.4 b/share/man/man4/ti.4
index c3a4ad027bb..7d1b74ee2af 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/ti.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/ti.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ti.4,v 1.8 2000/11/10 20:02:17 todd Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ti.4,v 1.9 2000/11/21 04:51:57 jason Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999
.\" 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: ti.4,v 1.1 1999/04/06 17:08:29 wpaul Exp $
+.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man4/ti.4,v 1.11 2000/08/10 19:47:32 billf Exp $
.\"
.Dd March 4, 1999
.Dt TI 4
@@ -44,45 +44,56 @@
The
.Nm ti
driver provides support for PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on
-the Alteon Networks Tigon Gigabit Ethernet controller chip. The Tigon
-contains an embedded R4000 CPU, gigabit MAC, dual DMA channels and
-a PCI interface unit. The Tigon II contains two R4000 CPUs and other
-refinements. Either chip can be used in either a 32-bit or 64-bit PCI
-slot. Communication with the chip is achieved via PCI shared memory
-and bus master DMA. The Tigon I and II support hardware multicast
+the Alteon Networks Tigon Gigabit Ethernet controller chip.
+The Tigon contains an embedded R4000 CPU, gigabit MAC, dual DMA channels and
+a PCI interface unit.
+The Tigon II contains two R4000 CPUs and other refinements.
+Either chip can be used in either a 32-bit or 64-bit PCI slot.
+Communication with the chip is achieved via PCI shared memory and
+bus master DMA.
+The Tigon I and II support hardware multicast
address filtering, VLAN tag extraction and insertion, and jumbo
-Ethernet frames sizes up to 9000 bytes. Note that the Tigon I chipset
-is no longer in active production: all new adapters should come equipped
-with Tigon II chipsets.
+Ethernet frames sizes up to 9000 bytes.
+Note that the Tigon I chipset is no longer in active production: all new
+adapters should come equipped with Tigon II chipsets.
.Pp
There are several PCI boards available from both Alteon and other
-vendors that use the Tigon chipset under OEM contract. The
+vendors that use the Tigon chipset under OEM contract.
+The
.Nm
driver has been tested with the following Tigon-based adapters:
-.Bl -bullet -offset indent
+.Pp
+.Bl -bullet -compacy -offset indent
+.It
+The Alteon AceNIC V gigabit Ethernet adapter (1000baseSX)
.It
-The Alteon AceNIC V
+The Alteon AceNIC V gigabit Ethernet adapter (1000baseT)
.It
-The 3Com 3C985-SX
+The 3Com 3C985-SX gigabit Ethernet adapter (Tigon 1)
.It
-The Netgear GA620
+The 3Com 3C985B-SX gigabit Ethernet adapter (Tigon 2)
.It
-Farallon PN9000SX
+The Netgear GA620 gigabit Ethernet adapter (1000baseSX)
+.It
+The Netgear GA620T gigabit Ethernet adapter (1000baseT)
.El
.Pp
The following should also be supported but have not yet been tested:
-.Bl -bullet -offset indent
+.Pp
+.Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent
.It
-The Digital EtherWORKS 1000SX PCI
+The Digital EtherWORKS 1000SX PCI Gigabit Adapter
.It
-Silicon Graphics PCI
+Silicon Graphics PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter
+.It
+Farallon PN9000SX Gigabit Ethernet adapter
.El
.Pp
While the Tigon chipset supports 10, 100 and 1000Mbps speeds, support for
10 and 100Mbps speeds is only available on boards with the proper
-transceivers. Most adapters are only designed to work at 1000Mbps,
-however the driver should support those NICs that work at lower speeds
-as well.
+transceivers.
+Most adapters are only designed to work at 1000Mbps, however the driver
+should support those NICs that work at lower speeds as well.
.Pp
Support for jumbo frames is provided via the interface MTU setting.
Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the
@@ -103,14 +114,16 @@ the autoselected mode by adding media options to the appropriate
.Pa /etc/hostname.tiX
file.
.It 10baseT/UTP
-Set 10Mbps operation. The
+Set 10Mbps operation
+The
.Ar mediaopt
option can also be used to select either
.Ar full-duplex
or
.Ar half-duplex modes.
.It 100baseTX
-Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. The
+Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
+The
.Ar mediaopt
option can also be used to select either
.Ar full-duplex
@@ -118,7 +131,8 @@ or
.Ar half-duplex
modes.
.It 1000baseSX
-Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation. Only
+Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
+Only
.Ar full-duplex
mode is supported at this speed.
.El
@@ -131,7 +145,7 @@ driver supports the following media options:
.It full-duplex
Force full duplex operation
.It half-duplex
-Force half duplex operation.
+Force half duplex operation
.El
.Pp
For more information on configuring this device, see
@@ -153,14 +167,16 @@ The driver failed to allocate memory for jumbo frames during
initialization.
.It "ti%d: bios thinks we're in a 64 bit slot, but we aren't"
The BIOS has programmed the NIC as though it had been installed in
-a 64-bit PCI slot, but in fact the NIC is in a 32-bit slot. This happens
-as a result of a bug in some BIOSes. This can be worked around on the
-Tigon II, but on the Tigon I initialization will fail.
+a 64-bit PCI slot, but in fact the NIC is in a 32-bit slot.
+This happens as a result of a bug in some BIOSes.
+This can be worked around on the Tigon II, but
+on the Tigon I initialization will fail.
.It "ti%d: board self-diagnostics failed!"
The ROMFAIL bit in the CPU state register was set after system
startup, indicating that the on-board NIC diagnostics failed.
.It "ti%d: unknown hwrev"
-The driver detected a board with an unsupported hardware revision. The
+The driver detected a board with an unsupported hardware revision.
+The
.Nm
driver supports revision 4 (Tigon 1) and revision 6 (Tigon 2) chips
and has firmware only for those devices.
@@ -175,7 +191,7 @@ the network connection (cable).
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Rs
.%T Alteon Gigabit Ethernet/PCI NIC manuals
-.%O http://www.alteon.com/support/openkits
+.%O http://sanjose.alteon.com/open.shtml
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
The
@@ -189,4 +205,4 @@ support first appeared in
The
.Nm
driver was written by
-.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu .
+.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@bsdi.com .