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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2001-10-26 17:11:50 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2001-10-26 17:11:50 +0000
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mdoc(7) police:
- Minor markup nits. - Arrange for appearance in 4.5.
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@@ -61,17 +61,19 @@ SysKonnect SK-9D41 (1000baseSX)
All of these NICs are capable of 10, 100 and 1000Mbps speeds over CAT5
copper cable, except for the SysKonnect SK-9D41 which supports only
1000Mbps over multimode fiber.
-The BCM570x builds upon the technology of the Alteon Tigon II. It has
-two R4000 CPU cores and is PCI v2.2 and PCI-X v1.0 compliant. It
-supports IP, TCP
+The BCM570x builds upon the technology of the Alteon Tigon II.
+It has two R4000 CPU cores and is PCI v2.2 and PCI-X v1.0 compliant.
+It supports IP, TCP
and UDP checksum checksum offload for both receive and transmit,
multiple RX and TX DMA rings for QoS applications, rules-based
receive filtering, and VLAN tag stripping/insertion as well as
-a 256-bit multicast hash filter. Additional features may be
+a 256-bit multicast hash filter.
+Additional features may be
provided via value-add firmware updates.
The BCM570x supports TBI (ten bit interface) and GMII
transceivers, which means it can be used with either copper of 1000baseX
-fiber applications. Note however the device only supports a single
+fiber applications.
+Note however the device only supports a single
speed in TBI mode.
.Pp
Most cards also use the Broadcom BCM5401 or BCM5411 10/100/1000
@@ -90,7 +92,7 @@ such as file transfers and data streaming.
The
.Nm
driver supports the following media types:
-.Bl -tag -width 10baseTXUTP
+.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP"
.It Cm autoselect
Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
The user can manually override
@@ -134,7 +136,7 @@ modes are supported.
The
.Nm
driver supports the following media options:
-.Bl -tag -width full-duplex
+.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex"
.It Cm full-duplex
Force full duplex operation.
.It Cm half-duplex
@@ -144,7 +146,7 @@ Force half duplex operation.
The
.Nm
driver also supports one special link option for 1000baseTX cards:
-.Bl -tag -width link0
+.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.
@@ -196,7 +198,7 @@ the network connection (cable).
The
.Nm
device driver first appeared in
-.Fx 5.0 .
+.Fx 4.5 .
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
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