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authoryongari <yongari@FreeBSD.org>2010-08-09 17:33:03 +0000
committeryongari <yongari@FreeBSD.org>2010-08-09 17:33:03 +0000
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Document newly added controller AR8151 and AR8152.
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@@ -24,12 +24,12 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd June 10, 2009
+.Dd August 9, 2010
.Dt ALC 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm alc
-.Nd Atheros AR8131/AR8132 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet driver
+.Nd Atheros AR813x/AR815x Gigabit/Fast Ethernet driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel,
place the following lines in your
@@ -48,9 +48,8 @@ if_alc_load="YES"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-device driver provides support for Atheros AR8131 PCI Express
-Gigabit Ethernet controllers and Atheros AR8132 PCI Express
-Fast Ethernet controllers.
+device driver provides support for Atheros AR813x and AR815x PCI
+Express Gigabit/Fast Ethernet controllers.
.Pp
All LOMs supported by the
.Nm
@@ -59,8 +58,9 @@ segmentation offload (TSO), hardware VLAN tag stripping/insertion
features, Wake On Lan (WOL) and an interrupt moderation mechanism
as well as a 64-bit multicast hash filter.
.Pp
-The AR8131/AR8132 supports Jumbo Frames (up to 9216 bytes), which can
-be configured via the interface MTU setting.
+The AR813x and AR815x supports Jumbo Frames (up to 9216 and 6144
+bytes, respectively), 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.
@@ -104,6 +104,14 @@ device driver provides support for the following Ethernet controllers:
Atheros AR8131 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
.It
Atheros AR8132 PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
+.It
+Atheros AR8151 v1.0 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
+.It
+Atheros AR8151 v2.0 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
+.It
+Atheros AR8152 v1.1 PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
+.It
+Atheros AR8152 v2.0 PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
.El
.Sh LOADER TUNABLES
Tunables can be set at the
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