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authorbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2004-09-13 10:35:29 +0000
committerbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2004-09-13 10:35:29 +0000
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- fix capitalization
- add HARDWARE section based on the hardware notes - bump document date MFC after: 3 days
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@@ -31,23 +31,23 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd September 18, 2000
+.Dd September 13, 2004
.Dt PCN 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm pcn
-.Nd "AMD PCnet/PCI fast ethernet device driver"
+.Nd "AMD PCnet/PCI Fast Ethernet device driver"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "device miibus"
.Cd "device pcn"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-driver provides support for PCI ethernet adapters and embedded
+driver provides support for PCI Ethernet adapters and embedded
controllers based on the AMD PCnet/FAST, PCnet/FAST+, PCnet/FAST III,
-PCnet/PRO and PCnet/Home ethernet controller chips.
+PCnet/PRO and PCnet/Home Ethernet controller chips.
.Pp
-The PCnet/PCI chips include a 100Mbps ethernet MAC and support
+The PCnet/PCI chips include a 100Mbps Ethernet MAC and support
both a serial and MII-compliant transceiver interface.
They use a bus master DMA and a scatter/gather descriptor scheme.
The AMD chips provide a mechanism for zero-copy receive,
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ or
.Sq half-duplex
modes.
.It 100baseTX
-Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation.
+Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
The
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Cm mediaopt
@@ -100,6 +100,34 @@ Force half duplex operation.
.Pp
For more information on configuring this device, see
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
+.Sh HARDWARE
+The
+.Nm
+driver supports adapters and embedded controllers based on the AMD PCnet/FAST,
+PCnet/FAST+, PCnet/FAST III, PCnet/PRO and PCnet/Home Fast Ethernet chips:
+.Pp
+.Bl -bullet -compact
+.It
+AMD Am53C974/Am79C970/Am79C974 PCnet-PCI
+.It
+AMD Am79C970A PCnet-PCI II
+.It
+AMD Am79C971 PCnet-FAST
+.It
+AMD Am79C972 PCnet-FAST+
+.It
+AMD Am79C973/Am79C975 PCnet-FAST III
+.It
+AMD Am79C976 PCnet-PRO
+.It
+AMD PCnet/Home HomePNA
+.It
+Allied-Telesis LA-PCI
+.It
+Contec C-NET(98)S (PC-98)
+.It
+NEC SV-98/2-B05, B06
+.El
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It "pcn%d: couldn't map ports/memory"
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