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authormarius <marius@FreeBSD.org>2006-02-02 14:57:00 +0000
committermarius <marius@FreeBSD.org>2006-02-02 14:57:00 +0000
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Correct and improve the description of le(4) vs. pcn(4); apparently I
was thinking from the pcn(4) perspective instead of the le(4) one when writing the former version as le(4) supports a superset of the chips supported by pcn(4) and not the other way round.
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/le.4 b/share/man/man4/le.4
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--- a/share/man/man4/le.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/le.4
@@ -79,17 +79,24 @@ driver also supports PCnet adapters based on the
.Tn AMD 79C9xx
family of chips, which are single-chip implementations of a
.Tn LANCE
-chip and
+chip and a DMA engine.
+This includes a superset of the
.Tn PCI
-bus interface.
-This includes most of the adapters which are also supported by the
+bus Ethernet chip sets supported by the
.Xr pcn 4
driver.
The
.Nm
-driver does not support all features of these adapters however, thus the
+driver treats all of these
+.Tn PCI
+bus Ethernet chip sets as an
+.Tn AMD Am79C970 PCnet-PCI
+and does not support the additional features like the MII bus and burst mode of
+.Tn AMD Am79C971 PCnet-FAST
+and greater chip sets.
+Thus the
.Xr pcn 4
-driver should be preferred.
+driver should be preferred for the latter.
.Pp
The
.Nm
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