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diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.hp300/le.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.hp300/le.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..2f5beeb62ed --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.hp300/le.4 @@ -0,0 +1,110 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by +.\" the Systems Programming Group of the University of Utah Computer +.\" Science Department. +.\" +.\" 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. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``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 REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS 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. +.\" +.\" from: @(#)le.4 5.2 (Berkeley) 3/27/91 +.\" $Id: le.4,v 1.1 1995/10/18 08:44:28 deraadt Exp $ +.\" +.Dd March 27, 1991 +.Dt LE 4 hp300 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm le +.Nd +.Tn HP AMD +7990 +.Tn LANCE +Ethernet interface +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "device le0 at scode?" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm le +interface provides access to a 10 Mb/s Ethernet network via the +.Tn AMD +7990 +.Tn LANCE +Ethernet chip set. +.Pp +Each of the host's network addresses +is specified at boot time with an +.Dv SIOCSIFADDR +.Xr ioctl . +The +.Xr le +interface employs the address resolution protocol described in +.Xr arp 4 +to dynamically map between Internet and Ethernet addresses on the local +network. +.Pp +The use of ``trailer'' encapsulation to minimize copying data on +input and output is supported by the interface but offers no advantage +due to the large +.Tn HP +page size. +The use of trailers is negotiated with +.Tn ARP . +This negotiation may be disabled, on a per-interface basis, +by setting the +.Dv IFF_NOTRAILERS +flag with an +.Dv SIOCSIFFLAGS +.Xr ioctl . +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It le%d: hardware address %s. +This is a normal autoconfiguration message noting the 6 byte physical +ethernet address of the adapter. +.Pp +.It de%d: can't handle af%d. +The interface was handed +a message with addresses formatted in an unsuitable address +family; the packet was dropped. +.Pp +The following message indicate a possible hardware error performing +the indicated operation during autoconfiguration or initialization. +.Pp +.It le%d: init timeout, stat = 0x%x. +The hardware did not respond to an initialize command during reset. +The reset procedure continues anyway. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr inet 4 , +.Xr arp 4 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm le +driver +.Ud |