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+.\" Copyright (c) 2001 Wind River Systems
+.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
+.\" Bill Paul <william.paul@windriver.com>. All rights reserved.
+.\"
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+.\"
+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd July 16, 2005
+.Dt LGE 4
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm lge
+.Nd "Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver"
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+To compile this driver into the kernel,
+place the following lines in your
+kernel configuration file:
+.Bd -ragged -offset indent
+.Cd "device miibus"
+.Cd "device lge"
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Alternatively, to load the driver as a
+module at boot time, place the following line in
+.Xr loader.conf 5 :
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+if_lge_load="YES"
+.Ed
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm
+driver provides support for various NICs based on the Level 1 LXT1001
+NetCellerator Gigabit Ethernet controller chip.
+.Pp
+The LXT1001 supports fiber PHYs and also a GMII port for use with
+10/100/1000 copper PHYs, however there are currently no NICs on the
+market that use this feature.
+.Pp
+The LXT1001 supports TCP/IP checksum offload for receive and
+VLAN-based filtering as well as a 64-bit multicast hash filter.
+It also supports jumbo frames, which can be configured
+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.
+Using jumbo frames can greatly improve performance for certain tasks,
+such as file transfers and data streaming.
+.Pp
+The
+.Nm
+driver supports the following media types:
+.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 1000baseSX"
+.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 Cm 1000baseSX
+Set 1000baseSX operation over fiber optic cable.
+Both
+.Cm full-duplex
+and
+.Cm half-duplex
+modes are supported.
+.El
+.Pp
+The
+.Nm
+driver supports the following media options:
+.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex"
+.It Cm full-duplex
+Force full duplex operation.
+.It Cm half-duplex
+Force half duplex operation.
+.El
+.Pp
+For more information on configuring this device, see
+.Xr ifconfig 8 .
+.Sh HARDWARE
+Adapters supported by the
+.Nm
+driver include:
+.Pp
+.Bl -bullet -compact
+.It
+SMC TigerCard 1000 (SMC9462SX)
+.It
+D-Link DGE-500SX
+.El
+.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
+.Bl -diag
+.It "lge%d: couldn't map memory"
+A fatal initialization error has occurred.
+.It "lge%d: couldn't map ports"
+A fatal initialization error has occurred.
+.It "lge%d: couldn't map interrupt"
+A fatal initialization error has occurred.
+.It "lge%d: no memory for softc struct!"
+The driver failed to allocate memory for per-device instance information
+during initialization.
+.It "lge%d: failed to enable memory mapping!"
+The driver failed to initialize PCI shared memory mapping.
+This might
+happen if the card is not in a bus-master slot.
+.It "lge%d: no memory for jumbo buffers!"
+The driver failed to allocate memory for jumbo frames during
+initialization.
+.It "lge%d: watchdog timeout"
+The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with
+the network connection (cable).
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr arp 4 ,
+.Xr miibus 4 ,
+.Xr netintro 4 ,
+.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
+.Xr ifconfig 8
+.Rs
+.%T Level 1 LXT1001 Programming Manual
+.%U http://www.FreeBSD.org/~wpaul/Level1/LXT1001SRM.pdf
+.Re
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+device driver first appeared in
+.Fx 4.4 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+The
+.Nm
+driver was written by
+.An Bill Paul Aq william.paul@windriver.com .
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