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authorobrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>1996-12-18 01:35:20 +0000
committerobrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>1996-12-18 01:35:20 +0000
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Added $Id$.
Added more verbage about the card, and documented the driver's bugs. 2.2-R candidate.
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@@ -21,9 +21,11 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
+.\" $Id$
+.\"
.Dd July 10, 1995
.Dt EL 4 i386
-.Os
+.Os FreeBSD
.Sh NAME
.Nm el
.Nd Ethernet driver for 3Com Etherlink 3C501 device driver
@@ -32,8 +34,19 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-interface provides access to a 10 Mb/s Ethernet network via the
-3Com 3c501 Ethernet cards.
+interface provides support for the 3Com 3c501 8bit ISA ethernet card.
+The 3c501 card is known to be quite slow, and a different ethernet card
+should be used if possible.
+However, they allows inexpensive access to 10 Mb/s Ethernet networks.
+.Pp
+The valid I/O ports are in the range 0x280-0x3f0.
+.Sh BUGS
+The driver assumes the card is configured for the same IRQ the kernel is.
+No probing or checking is done to determine if this is the case.
+.Pp
+Does not currently support DMA.
+.Pp
+Does not currently support multicasts.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
.Xr intro 4 ,
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