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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: bge.4,v 1.37 2008/05/31 23:42:48 brad Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: bge.4,v 1.38 2008/07/26 00:51:38 brad Exp $
.\" Copyright (c) 2001 Wind River Systems
.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@windriver.com>. 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.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2008 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 26 2008 $
.Dt BGE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -110,26 +110,16 @@ SysKonnect SK-9D21 (10/100/1000baseT)
SysKonnect SK-9D41 (1000baseSX)
.El
.Pp
-All of these NICs are capable of 10, 100 speeds over CAT5 copper cable;
-the Gigabit controller chips also support 1000Mbps, except for the
-SysKonnect SK-9D41 which supports only 1000Mbps over multimode fiber.
-It has two R4000 CPU cores and is PCI v2.2 and PCI-X v1.0 compliant.
-It supports
+The
+.Nm
+driver supports
.\"IP, TCP
.\"and UDP checksum offload for both receive and transmit,
VLAN tag insertion as well as a 256-bit multicast hash filter.
-Additional features may be provided via value-add firmware updates.
-The BCM57xx supports TBI (ten bit interface) and GMII transceivers, which
-means it can be used with either copper or 1000baseX fiber applications.
-Note however the device only supports a single speed in TBI mode.
-.Pp
-Most BCM5700-based cards also use the Broadcom BCM5401 or BCM5411 10/100/1000
-copper Gigabit transceivers,
-which support autonegotiation of 10, 100 and 1000Mbps modes in
-full or half duplex.
.Pp
-The BCM5700, BCM5701, BCM5703 and BCM5704 are capable of supporting Jumbo frames,
-which can be configured via the interface MTU setting.
+The BCM5700, BCM5701, BCM5703 and BCM5704 chips are capable of
+supporting 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.