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author | dd <dd@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-04-20 03:49:07 +0000 |
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committer | dd <dd@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-04-20 03:49:07 +0000 |
commit | 1f711c4d48abeaaf0a39ed76c93d4d95bcf1922c (patch) | |
tree | 6588acafdea1698fcbae629cfa66e9036ec57e1d /share/man/man4/dc.4 | |
parent | 81a2b0cc18ba1c1906e77cf5a8db4f4166e4195c (diff) | |
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Fix miscellaneous spelling and grammar errors.
PR: 26672
Submitted by: Seth <seth@psychotic.aberrant.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4/dc.4')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/dc.4 b/share/man/man4/dc.4 index 679eaa4..accaf7d 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/dc.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/dc.4 @@ -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 |