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diff --git a/share/man/man4/Makefile b/share/man/man4/Makefile index 3d754ee5324..682d914c378 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/Makefile +++ b/share/man/man4/Makefile @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.196 2002/04/01 08:00:11 mpech Exp $ +# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.197 2002/04/02 12:57:53 nate Exp $ MAN= aac.4 ac97.4 addcom.4 adv.4 aha.4 ahb.4 ahc.4 aic.4 ami.4 amphy.4 \ an.4 aria.4 ast.4 atalk.4 atapiscsi.4 \ @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ MAN= aac.4 ac97.4 addcom.4 adv.4 aha.4 ahb.4 ahc.4 aic.4 ami.4 amphy.4 \ cue.4 cy.4 cz.4 dc.4 ddb.4 de.4 dpt.4 drum.4 eap.4 ec.4 \ eephy.4 ef.4 eg.4 eisa.4 el.4 emu.4 enc.4 ep.4 esis.4 \ eso.4 ess.4 exphy.4 fd.4 fdc.4 fpa.4 \ - fms.4 fxp.4 gdt.4 gre.4 hifn.4 hsq.4 icmp.4 icsphy.4 \ + fms.4 fxp.4 gdt.4 gre.4 gx.4 hifn.4 hsq.4 icmp.4 icsphy.4 \ idp.4 iha.4 ifmedia.4 \ inet.4 inphy.4 iop.4 iopsp.4 ioprbs.4 iophy.4 ip.4 ipcomp.4 ipsec.4 \ isa.4 isapnp.4 ises.4 iso.4 isp.4 \ diff --git a/share/man/man4/gx.4 b/share/man/man4/gx.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..54abb86b153 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/gx.4 @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: gx.4,v 1.1 2002/04/02 12:57:53 nate Exp $ +.\" Copyright (c) 2001 +.\" Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@FreeBSD.org>. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" 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. Neither the name of the author nor the names of any co-contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR 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 AUTHOR 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. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd October 17, 2001 +.Dt GX 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm gx +.Nd "Intel Pro/1000 gigabit ethernet driver" +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "gx* at pci? device ? function ?" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for NICs based on the Intel 82542, 82543 and +82544 gigabit ethernet controller chips. +Both fiber and copper variants of +the cards are supported. +The following cards are supported: +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +Intel i82542 1000BASE-X Ethernet +.It +Intel i82543 1000BASE-X Ethernet +.It +Intel i82543-SC 1000BASE-X Ethernet +.It +Intel i82543 1000BASE-T Ethernet +.It +Intel i82544 1000BASE-T Ethernet +.It +Intel i82544 1000BASE-X Ethernet +.It +Intel i82544GC 1000BASE-T Ethernet (32- and 64-bit) +.El +.Pp +The 82542 supports TBI (ten bit interface), while the 82543 and 82544 +support the GMII transceivers, which means they can be used with either +copper or 1000baseX fiber applications. +.\" Both boards support VLAN tagging/insertion and the 82543 and 82544 +.\" additionally support TCP/IP checksum offload. +.Pp +The 82543 and 82544 copper cards use the Marvell 10/100/1000 copper +gigabit transceiver chip, which supports autonegotiation of 10, 100 +and 1000mbps modes in full or half duplex, however half duplex +1000mbps is not supported. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media types: +.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT" +.It Cm autoselect +Enable autoselection of the media type and options. +User can manually override +the autoselected mode by adding media options to +.Xr rc.conf 5 . +.It Cm 10baseT +Set 10Mbps operation. +The +.Xr ifconfig 8 Ns 's +.Cm mediaopt +option can also be used to select either +.Cm full-duplex +or +.Cm half-duplex +modes. +.It Cm 100baseTX +Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation. +The +.Xr ifconfig 8 Ns 's +.Cm mediaopt +option can also be used to select either +.Cm full-duplex +or +.Cm half-duplex +modes. +.It Cm 1000baseTX +Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair. +Only +.Cm full-duplex +mode is supported. +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media options: +.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex" +.It Cm full-duplex +Force full duplex operation. +.It Cm half-duplex +Force half duplex operation. +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver also supports one special link option for 1000baseTX cards: +.Bl -tag -width ".Cm link0" +.It Cm link0 +With 1000baseTX cards, establishing a link between two ports requires +that one port be configured as a master and the other a slave. +With autonegotiation, +the master/slave settings should be chosen automatically. +Setting the +.Cm link0 +flag with +.Xr ifconfig 8 +will force the link up instead. +.El +.Pp +For more information on configuring this device, see +.Xr ifconfig 8 . +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "gx%d: couldn't map memory" +A fatal initialization error has occurred. +.It "gx%d: couldn't map interrupt" +A fatal initialization error has occurred. +.It "gx%d: couldn't setup irq" +A fatal initialization error has occurred. +.It "gx%d: failed to read station address" +A fatal initialization error has occurred. +.It "gx%d: no memory for list buffers!" +The driver failed to allocate memory for per-device instance information +during initialization. +.It "gx%d: failed to enable memory mapping!" +The driver failed to initialize PCI shared memory mapping. +This might happen if the card is not in a bus-master slot. +.It "gx%d: GMII/MII, PHY not detected" +The MII probe routines failed to detect the PHY. +This might happen if miibus is not configured. +.It "gx%d: watchdog timeout" +The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with +the network connection (cable). +.It "gx%d: mbuf allocation failed -- packet dropped" +The driver could not allocate a mbuf for the receive ring. +.It "gx%d: cluster allocation failed -- packet dropped" +The driver could not allocate a mbuf cluster for the receive ring. +.It "gx%d: link down" +The link status changed from up to down. +.It "gx%d: link up" +The link status changed from down to up. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arp 4 , +.\" .Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr vlan 4 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +device driver first appeared in +.Ox 3.1 . +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Jonathan Lemon Aq jlemon@FreeBSD.org . +.Pp +Support for the newer 82544 based chips (Cordova) was added by +.An Nathan Binkert Aq nate@OpenBSD.org +who also did the port to +.Ox . |