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author | brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-12-21 01:09:34 +0000 |
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committer | brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-12-21 01:09:34 +0000 |
commit | 392ec03981e3b0455dd0450001b93aabccce950a (patch) | |
tree | 16b97c248ac7e211a2298dd8cf9634edb7ec2bf5 /share/man/man4/man4.i386 | |
parent | 93beb5568eb5924f67f3a3cea2e212f95535a266 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-392ec03981e3b0455dd0450001b93aabccce950a.zip FreeBSD-src-392ec03981e3b0455dd0450001b93aabccce950a.tar.gz |
(fast) ethernet -> (Fast) Ethernet
MFC after: 3 days
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4/man4.i386')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/man4.i386/cs.4 | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/man4.i386/ndis.4 | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/man4.i386/ray.4 | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/man4.i386/wl.4 | 12 |
4 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/cs.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/cs.4 index 1687a32..c380089 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/cs.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/cs.4 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .Os .Sh NAME .Nm cs -.Nd ethernet device driver +.Nd Ethernet device driver .Sh SYNOPSIS .Cd "device cs" .Pp @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ In .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm -driver provides support for ISA ethernet adapters based on the +driver provides support for ISA Ethernet adapters based on the .Tn Crystal Semiconductor CS8900 and .Tn CS8920 diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ndis.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ndis.4 index f7140c8..a45a63f 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ndis.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ndis.4 @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ file. .Pp The .Nm -driver is designed to support mainly ethernet and wireless +driver is designed to support mainly Ethernet and wireless network devices with PCI and PCMCIA bus attachments. (Cardbus devices are also supported as a subset of PCI.) @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ It can support many different media types and speeds. One limitation however, is that there is no consistent way to learn if an -ethernet device is operating in full or half duplex mode. +Ethernet device is operating in full or half duplex mode. The NDIS API allows for a generic means for determining link state and speed, but not the duplex setting. There may be diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ray.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ray.4 index 397dde4..f572c41 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ray.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ray.4 @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ The controller firmware was busy when a packet was about to be sent out. It will be retried automatically. .It "ray?: mbuf too long ??" Should never happen, and if it does represents something wrong in the -generic ethernet driver in the kernel. +generic Ethernet driver in the kernel. .It "ray?: could not pullup ether" Problem with re-aligning mbufs. Very unlikely to happen. diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/wl.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/wl.4 index b6b7860..b0d1331 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/wl.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/wl.4 @@ -52,13 +52,13 @@ from 1 megabit to theoretically 2 megabits (roughly T1 in speed). .Pp The card has three fundamental hardware units, a so-called PSA or programmable storage area, a radio modem, -and a ethernet lan controller. +and a Ethernet lan controller. The latter component is the -ancient (and not very honorable) Intel 82586 ethernet chip. -Fundamentally it appears to the operating system as an ethernet system, +ancient (and not very honorable) Intel 82586 Ethernet chip. +Fundamentally it appears to the operating system as an Ethernet system, and speaks IEEE MAC addresses. The radio modem simply translates -ethernet packets to/from radio packets, that are either at 2.4 GHz +Ethernet packets to/from radio packets, that are either at 2.4 GHz or 915 MHz depending on the radio modem. It supports a collision avoidance scheme. @@ -66,12 +66,12 @@ The lan controller supports promiscuous mode, broadcast, and multicasting (although there is a glitch in the latter). -"It thinks it is ethernet". +"It thinks it is Ethernet". .Pp How it is used depends on the kind of antennae deployed with it. Point to point -applications are possible as are ethernet-like lan use. +applications are possible as are Ethernet-like lan use. The vendor ships an omni-directional antennae that works in the vicinity of 400 feet (indoors). |