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diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.sparc64/le.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.sparc64/le.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..adc9c5bc674 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.sparc64/le.4 @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: le.4,v 1.1 2001/10/08 22:37:11 miod Exp $ +.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This software was developed by the Computer Systems Engineering group +.\" at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory under DARPA contract BG 91-66 and +.\" contributed to Berkeley. +.\" +.\" 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: Header: le.4,v 1.2 92/10/13 05:31:33 leres Exp +.\" from: @(#)le.4 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93 +.\" +.Dd October 8, 2001 +.Dt LE 4 sparc64 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm le +.Nd SPARC64 AMD 7990 LANCE ethernet interface +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "le* at sbus? slot ? offset ? " Pq sbus +.Cd "ledma* at sbus? slot ? offset ? " Pq onboard +.Cd "le* at ledma* " Pq onboard +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +interface provides access to the 10 Mb/s +.Tn Ethernet +network via the +.Tn AMD +Am7990 +Local Area Network Controller for Ethernet +.Pq Tn LANCE +chip set. +.Pp +Each of the host's network addresses +is specified at boot time with an +.Dv SIOCSIFADDR +.Xr ioctl . +The +.Nm +interface employs the address resolution protocol described in +.Xr arp 4 +to dynamically map between Internet and +.Tn Ethernet +addresses on the local network. +.Pp +Different cards and machines have different kinds of connectors, +as follows: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +.It AUI/DIX +Standard 15 pin connector +.It 10BaseT +UTP, also known as twisted pair +.El +.Pp +By default, the system will select the media type automatically, but the +.Xr ifconfig 8 +command can be used to force the media selection. +The media types are shown below: +.Bl -tag -width autoselect -offset indent +.It media autoselect +Attempt to autoselect the media type (default) +.It media 10base5 +Use the AUI connector +.It media 10baseT +Use the twisted pair connector +.El +.Sh NOTES +Some sbus models, in particular the 501-1450 and 501-1881, have dip +switches which must be changed to select between the BNC and AUI modes. +For BNC, set 1-6 ON, 7-8 OFF; for AUI set 1-6 OFF, and 7-8 ON. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr be 4 , +.Xr ie 4 , +.Xr ifmedia 4 , +.Xr inet 4 , +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr qe 4 +.Sh HISTORY +.Ox +support for the +.Nm +first appeared in +.Ox 3.0 . |