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-.\" Copyright (c) 2001 Wind River Syste,s
+.\" Copyright (c) 2001 Wind River Systems
.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@bsdi.com>. All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\"
.Dd July 11, 2001
.Dt NGE 4
-.Os FreeBSD
+.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm nge
.Nd "National Semiconductor PCI gigabit ethernet adapter driver"
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ driver provides support for various NICs based on the National Semiconductor
DP83820 and DP83821 gigabit ethernet controller chips, including the
following:
.Pp
-.Bl -bullet -offset indent -compact
+.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX)
.It
@@ -59,9 +59,11 @@ Addrton AEG320T
.El
.Pp
All of these NICs are capable of 10, 100 and 1000mbps speeds over CAT5
-copper cable. The DP83820 supports TBI (ten bit interface) and GMII
+copper cable.
+The DP83820 supports TBI (ten bit interface) and GMII
transceivers, which means it can be used with either copper of 1000baseX
-fiber applications. The DP83820 supports TCP/IP checksum offload and
+fiber applications.
+The DP83820 supports TCP/IP checksum offload and
VLAN tagging/insertion as well as a 2048-bit multicast hash filter
and up to 4 pattern match buffers.
.Pp
@@ -70,7 +72,7 @@ chip, which supports autonegotiation of 10, 100 and 1000mbps modes in
full or half duplex.
.Pp
The DP83820 also supports jumbo frames, which can be configured
-via the interface MTY setting.
+via the interface MTU setting.
Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the
.Xr ifconfig 8
utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit jumbo frames.
@@ -80,65 +82,62 @@ such as file transfers and data streaming.
The
.Nm
driver supports the following media types:
-.Pp
.Bl -tag -width 10baseTXUTP
-.It autoselect
+.It Cm autoselect
Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
The user can manually override
the autoselected mode by adding media options to
.Xr rc.conf 5 .
-.It 10baseT/UTP
+.It Cm 10baseT/UTP
Set 10Mbps operation.
The
.Xr ifconfig 8
-.Cm mediaopt
+.Ic mediaopt
option can also be used to select either
-.Sq full-duplex
+.Cm full-duplex
or
-.Sq half-duplex
+.Cm half-duplex
modes.
-.It 100baseTX
+.It Cm 100baseTX
Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation.
The
.Xr ifconfig 8
-.Cm mediaopt
+.Ic mediaopt
option can also be used to select either
-.Sq full-duplex
+.Cm full-duplex
or
-.Sq half-duplex
+.Cm half-duplex
modes.
-.It 1000baseTX
+.It Cm 1000baseTX
Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair.
-.Ar full-duplex
+.Cm full-duplex
and
-.Ar half-duplex
+.Cm half-duplex
modes are supported.
-.It 1000baseSX
+.It Cm 1000baseSX
Set 1000Mbps (gigabit ethernet) operation.
Both
-.Ar full-duplex
+.Cm full-duplex
and
-.Ar half-duplex
+.Cm half-duplex
modes are supported.
.El
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver supports the following media options:
-.Pp
-.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-.It full-duplex
-Force full duplex operation
-.It half-duplex
+.Bl -tag -width full-duplex
+.It Cm full-duplex
+Force full duplex operation.
+.It Cm half-duplex
Force half duplex operation.
.El
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver also supports one special link option for 1000baseTX cards:
-.Pp
-.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxx
-.It link0
+.Bl -tag -width link0
+.It Cm link0
With 1000baseTX cards, establishing a link between two ports requires
that one port be configured as a master and the other a slave.
With autonegotiation,
@@ -149,7 +148,7 @@ The
.Nm
driver configures the ports as slaves by default.
Setting the
-.Ar link0
+.Cm link0
flag with
.Xr ifconfig 8
will set a port as a master instead.
@@ -181,9 +180,9 @@ the network connection (cable).
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr arp 4 ,
-.Xr netintro 4 ,
-.Xr vlan 4 ,
+.Xr netintro 4 ,
.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
+.Xr vlan 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Rs
.%T National Semiconductor DP83820 datasheet
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