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authordd <dd@FreeBSD.org>2001-04-20 03:49:07 +0000
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Fix miscellaneous spelling and grammar errors.
PR: 26672 Submitted by: Seth <seth@psychotic.aberrant.org>
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@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ perfect filtering, inverse perfect filtering and hash table
filtering.
.Pp
Some clone chips duplicate the 21143 fairly closely while others
-only maintain superficial simularities.
+only maintain superficial similarities.
Some support only MII
media attachments.
Others use different receiver filter programming
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ driver does its best to provide generalized support for all
of these chipsets in order to keep special case code to a minimun.
.Pp
These chips are used by many vendors which makes it
-difficult provide a complete list of all supported cards.
+difficult to provide a complete list of all supported cards.
The
following NICs are known to work with the
.Nm
@@ -156,8 +156,9 @@ file.
Note: the built-in NWAY autonegotiation on the original PNIC 82c168
chip is horribly broken and is not supported by the
.Nm
-driver at this time: the chip will operate in any speed or duplex
-mode, however these must be set manually.
+driver at this time (see the
+.Sx BUGS
+section for details).
The original 82c168 appears
on very early revisions of the LinkSys LNE100TX and Matrox FastNIC.
.It 10baseT/UTP
@@ -209,11 +210,12 @@ A fatal initialization error has occurred.
A fatal initialization error has occurred.
.It "dc%d: watchdog timeout"
A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was
-issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the transmission
+issued, but the device failed to acknowledge the transmission
before a timeout expired.
This can happen if the device is unable
to deliver interrupts for some reason, of if there is a problem with
-the network connection (cable).
+the network connection (cable or network equipment) that results in a loss
+of link.
.It "dc%d: no memory for rx list"
The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring.
.It "dc%d: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold"
@@ -337,7 +339,7 @@ data along with the received frame data, dirtying several RX buffers
instead of just the expected one.
The
.Nm
-driver detects this condition and will salvage the frame, however
+driver detects this condition and will salvage the frame; however,
it incurs a serious performance penalty in the process.
.Pp
The PNIC chips also sometimes generate a transmit underrun error when
@@ -351,7 +353,7 @@ it is transfered successfully.
The ADMtek AL981 chip (and possibly the AN985 as well) has been observed
to sometimes wedge on transmit: this appears to happen when the driver
queues a sequence of frames which cause it to wrap from the end of the
-the transmit descriptor ring back to the beginning.
+transmit descriptor ring back to the beginning.
The
.Nm
driver attempts to avoid this condition by not queing any frames past
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