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author | obrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-01-20 09:18:54 +0000 |
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committer | obrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-01-20 09:18:54 +0000 |
commit | 2af4a0acfa4283f2b39d01cc48e5a106c0e323e4 (patch) | |
tree | d045d8b40748af3f2d8693566fefc30273a811ec /share/man/man4/de.4 | |
parent | 27b942564a62c8eb8687b4d80b312964ebc8bc58 (diff) | |
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New manpages for various Ethernet drivers, that I didn't see manpages for.
Manpage police??? Looking kinda bored there aren't you? Need something
to do? :-) I'm sure there's work here to be done.
Inspired by: Joerg
2.2-R candidate after Mike gets thru with them.
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/de.4 b/share/man/man4/de.4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e142a93 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/de.4 @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1997 David E. O'Brien +.\" +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE DEVELOPERS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES +.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. +.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE DEVELOPERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, +.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT +.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, +.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY +.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT +.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF +.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd January 19, 1997 +.Dt DE 4 i386 +.Os FreeBSD +.Sh NAME +.Nm de +.Nd +DEC DC21x4x Ethernet device driver +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "device de0" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for the Ethernet adapters based on the Digital +Equipment DC21x4x based self-contained Ethernet chips. +.Pp +It supports the DEC PCI DE435 card, DEC EISA DE425, DEC DE450, SMC 9332, +ZNYX ZX314, and others based on the 21040 and 21041 Ethernet controllers or +the 21140[A] Fast 100Base-T Ethernet controller. +.Pp +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "de%d: waking device from sleep/snooze mode" +The 21041 and 21140A chips support suppending the operation of the card. +.It "de%d: error: desired IRQ of %d does not match device's actual IRQ of %d" +The device probe detected that the board is configured for a different +interrupt than the one specified in the kernel configuration file. +.It "de%d: not configured; limit of %d reached or exceeded" +There is a limit of 32 +.Nm +devices allowed in a single machine. +.It "de%d: not configured; 21040 pass 2.0 required (%d.%d found)" +.It "de%d: not configured; 21140 pass 1.1 required (%d.%d found)" +Certain revisions of the chipset are not supported by this driver. +.El +.Pp +.Sh CAVEATS +Since the 21040 is available on both EISA and PCI boards, one must be careful +in how defines the 21040 in the kernel config file. +.Pp +.Sh BUGS +Currently the driver does not support multicast. +.Pp +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +device driver was written by Matt Thomas. +This manual page was written by David E. O'Brien. |