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| author | obrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-12-18 01:35:20 +0000 |
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| committer | obrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-12-18 01:35:20 +0000 |
| commit | bf28ef8410afd0839401ddfb20299505eed535f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 689edb7ac4f6d12e1138df1eae39fd4475b361d5 /share/man/man4/man4.i386/el.4 | |
| parent | 8de327d0b553417fec8f673ca67ed2f8398af747 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-bf28ef8410afd0839401ddfb20299505eed535f0.zip FreeBSD-src-bf28ef8410afd0839401ddfb20299505eed535f0.tar.gz | |
Added $Id$.
Added more verbage about the card, and documented the driver's bugs.
2.2-R candidate.
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4/man4.i386/el.4')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/man4.i386/el.4 | 19 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/el.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/el.4 index 2e44733..fd4a80f 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/el.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/el.4 @@ -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 , |
