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authorbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2004-12-21 01:09:34 +0000
committerbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2004-12-21 01:09:34 +0000
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(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.44
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.i386/ndis.44
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.i386/ray.42
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.i386/wl.412
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).
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