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authormarius <marius@FreeBSD.org>2006-05-15 20:03:10 +0000
committermarius <marius@FreeBSD.org>2006-05-15 20:03:10 +0000
commit7af26905ce03627d80d6ac9ec624c38b96a4851f (patch)
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Update the description of pcn(4) from pcn(4) vs. lnc(4) to pcn(4) vs. le(4)
now that lnc(4) is removed and le(4) is going to replace it.
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diff --git a/sys/conf/NOTES b/sys/conf/NOTES
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@@ -1746,9 +1746,11 @@ device miibus
# GigaNIX 1000TA and 1000TPC, the Addtron AEG320T, the Surecom
# EP-320G-TX and the Netgear GA622T.
# pcn: Support for PCI fast ethernet adapters based on the AMD Am79c97x
-# chipsets, including the PCnet/FAST, PCnet/FAST+, PCnet/PRO and
-# PCnet/Home. These were previously handled by the lnc driver (and
-# still will be if you leave this driver out of the kernel).
+# PCnet-FAST, PCnet-FAST+, PCnet-FAST III, PCnet-PRO and PCnet-Home
+# chipsets. These can also be handled by the le(4) driver if the
+# pcn(4) driver is left out of the kernel. The le(4) driver does not
+# support the additional features like the MII bus and burst mode of
+# the PCnet-FAST and greater chipsets though.
# rl: Support for PCI fast ethernet adapters based on the RealTek 8129/8139
# chipset. Note that the RealTek driver defaults to using programmed
# I/O to do register accesses because memory mapped mode seems to cause
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