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diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ex.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ex.4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3ffb3fc --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ex.4 @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1997 David E. O'Brien +.\" +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE DEVELOPERS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES +.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. +.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE DEVELOPERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, +.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT +.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, +.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY +.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT +.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF +.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd July 16, 2005 +.Dt EX 4 i386 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm ex +.Nd "Ethernet device driver for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 and Pro/10+" +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following line in your +kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device ex" +.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_ex_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for Ethernet adapters based on the Intel +i82595 chip. +.Pp +On the ISA bus, the card will be searched for in the +I/O address range 0x200 - 0x3a0. +The IRQ will be read from the EEPROM on the card. +For correct operation Plug-N-Play support should be disabled. +.Pp +On the PC Card bus, the card will be automatically recognized and +configured. +.Sh HARDWARE +The +.Nm +driver supports the following Ethernet adapters: +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 ISA +.It +Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA +.It +Olicom OC2220 Ethernet PC Card +.It +Olicom OC2232 Ethernet/Modem PC Card +.It +Silicom Ethernet LAN PC Card +.It +Silicom EtherSerial LAN PC Card +.El +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "ex%d: Intel EtherExpress Pro/10, address %6D, connector %s" +The device probe found an installed card, and was able to correctly install +the device driver. +.It "ex%d: WARNING: board's EEPROM is configured for IRQ %d, using %d" +The device probe detected that the board is configured for a different +interrupt than the one specified in the kernel configuration file. +.It "ex%d: invalid IRQ." +The device probe detected an invalid IRQ setting. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr ng_ether 4 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +device driver first appeared in +.Fx 2.2 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +device driver was written by +.An Javier Mart\('in Rueda . +The PC Card attachment was written by +.An Mitsuru ISAWAKI +and +.An Warner Losh . +This manual page was written by +.An David E. O'Brien . +.Sh BUGS +Currently the driver does not support multicast. +.Pp +The Silicom EtherSerial card's serial port does not currently work. +The Olicom OC2232 PC Card should work with the +.Nm +driver, but is currently completely broken. |