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authorbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2004-09-03 12:23:16 +0000
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- move list of supported adapters into a HARDWARE section
- list the Digital EtherWORKS adapter as supported [1] - properly capitalize (Fast|Gigabit) Ethernet - bump document date Obtained from: NetBSD [1] MFC after: 3 days
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@@ -30,12 +30,12 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd June 26, 2002
+.Dd September 3, 2004
.Dt TI 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm ti
-.Nd "Alteon Networks Tigon I and Tigon II gigabit ethernet driver"
+.Nd "Alteon Networks Tigon I and Tigon II Gigabit Ethernet driver"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "device ti"
.Cd "options TI_PRIVATE_JUMBOS"
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-driver provides support for PCI gigabit ethernet adapters based on
-the Alteon Networks Tigon gigabit ethernet controller chip.
+driver provides support for PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on
+the Alteon Networks Tigon Gigabit Ethernet controller chip.
The Tigon
contains an embedded R4000 CPU, gigabit MAC, dual DMA channels and
a PCI interface unit.
@@ -56,49 +56,11 @@ Communication with the chip is achieved via PCI shared memory
and bus master DMA.
The Tigon I and II support hardware multicast
address filtering, VLAN tag extraction and insertion, and jumbo
-ethernet frames sizes up to 9000 bytes.
+Ethernet frames sizes up to 9000 bytes.
Note that the Tigon I chipset
is no longer in active production: all new adapters should come equipped
with Tigon II chipsets.
.Pp
-There are several PCI boards available from both Alteon and other
-vendors that use the Tigon chipset under OEM contract.
-The
-.Nm
-driver has been tested with the following Tigon-based adapters:
-.Pp
-.Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent
-.It
-3Com 3c985-SX Gigabit Ethernet adapter (Tigon 1)
-.It
-3Com 3c985B-SX Gigabit Ethernet adapter (Tigon 2)
-.It
-Alteon AceNIC V Gigabit Ethernet adapter (1000baseSX)
-.It
-Alteon AceNIC V Gigabit Ethernet adapter (1000baseT)
-.It
-Netgear GA620 Gigabit Ethernet adapter (1000baseSX)
-.It
-Netgear GA620T Gigabit Ethernet adapter (1000baseT)
-.El
-.Pp
-The following should also be supported but have not yet been tested:
-.Pp
-.Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent
-.It
-Asante GigaNIX1000T Gigabit Ethernet adapter
-.It
-Asante PCI 1000BASE-SX Gigabit Ethernet adapter
-.It
-Digital EtherWORKS 1000SX PCI Gigabit adapter
-.It
-Farallon PN9000SX Gigabit Ethernet adapter
-.It
-NEC Gigabit Ethernet
-.It
-Silicon Graphics PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter
-.El
-.Pp
While the Tigon chipset supports 10, 100 and 1000Mbps speeds, support for
10 and 100Mbps speeds is only available on boards with the proper
transceivers.
@@ -160,7 +122,7 @@ or
.Ar half-duplex
modes.
.It 100baseTX
-Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation.
+Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
The
.Ar mediaopt
option can also be used to select either
@@ -169,7 +131,7 @@ or
.Ar half-duplex
modes.
.It 1000baseSX
-Set 1000Mbps (gigabit ethernet) operation.
+Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
Only full
.Ar full-duplex
mode is supported at this speed.
@@ -188,6 +150,47 @@ Force half duplex operation.
.Pp
For more information on configuring this device, see
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
+.Sh HARDWARE
+The
+.Nm
+driver supports Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the
+Alteon Tigon I and II chips.
+The
+.Nm
+driver has been tested with the following adapters:
+.Pp
+.Bl -bullet -compact
+.It
+3Com 3c985-SX Gigabit Ethernet adapter (Tigon 1)
+.It
+3Com 3c985B-SX Gigabit Ethernet adapter (Tigon 2)
+.It
+Alteon AceNIC V Gigabit Ethernet adapter (1000baseSX)
+.It
+Alteon AceNIC V Gigabit Ethernet adapter (1000baseT)
+.It
+Digital EtherWORKS 1000SX PCI Gigabit adapter
+.It
+Netgear GA620 Gigabit Ethernet adapter (1000baseSX)
+.It
+Netgear GA620T Gigabit Ethernet adapter (1000baseT)
+.El
+.Pp
+The following adapters should also be supported but have
+not yet been tested:
+.Pp
+.Bl -bullet -compact
+.It
+Asante GigaNIX1000T Gigabit Ethernet adapter
+.It
+Asante PCI 1000BASE-SX Gigabit Ethernet adapter
+.It
+Farallon PN9000SX Gigabit Ethernet adapter
+.It
+NEC Gigabit Ethernet
+.It
+Silicon Graphics PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter
+.El
.Sh IOCTLS
In addition to the standard
.Xr socket 2
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