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authorsimon <simon@FreeBSD.org>2004-08-15 21:59:15 +0000
committersimon <simon@FreeBSD.org>2004-08-15 21:59:15 +0000
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- Add a HARDWARE section which lists supported devices.
- Fix a few mdoc(7) markup / style nits when I'm here anyway.
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@@ -30,12 +30,12 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd November 22, 1998
+.Dd August 15, 2004
.Dt VR 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm vr
-.Nd "VIA Technologies Rhine I/II/III ethernet device driver"
+.Nd "VIA Technologies Rhine I/II/III Ethernet device driver"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "device miibus"
.Cd "device vr"
@@ -44,15 +44,13 @@ The
.Nm
driver provides support for PCI ethernet adapters and embedded
controllers based on the VIA Technologies VT3043 Rhine I,
-VT86C100A Rhine II, and VT6105/VT6105M Rhine III fast ethernet
+VT86C100A Rhine II, and VT6105/VT6105M Rhine III Fast Ethernet
controller chips.
-This includes
-the D-Link DFE530-TX, the Hawking Technologies PN102TX, the
-AOpen/Acer ALN-320, and various other commodity fast ethernet
-cards.
.Pp
The VIA Rhine chips use bus master DMA and have a descriptor layout
-designed to resemble that of the DEC 21x4x "tulip" chips.
+designed to resemble that of the DEC 21x4x
+.Dq tulip
+chips.
The register
layout is different however and the receive filter in the Rhine chips
is much simpler and is programmed through registers rather than by
@@ -85,7 +83,7 @@ or
.Ar half-duplex
modes.
.It 100baseTX
-Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation.
+Set 100Mbps (Fast Fthernet) operation.
The
.Ar mediaopt
option can also be used to select either
@@ -110,6 +108,20 @@ Note that the 100baseTX media type is only available if supported
by the adapter.
For more information on configuring this device, see
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
+.Sh HARDWARE
+The
+.Nm
+driver support VIA Technologies Rhine I, Rhine II, and Rhine III based
+Fast Ethernet adapters including:
+.Pp
+.Bl -bullet -compact
+.It
+D-Link DFE530-TX
+.It
+Hawking Technologies PN102TX
+.It
+AOpen/Acer ALN-320
+.El
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It "vr%d: couldn't map memory"
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