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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 AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``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 AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS 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 IE 4 i386 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm ie +.Nd "Ethernet device driver" +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following line in your +kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device ie" +.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_ie_load="YES" +.Ed +.Pp +In +.Pa /boot/device.hints : +.Cd hint.ie.0.at="isa" +.Cd hint.ie.0.port="0x300" +.Cd hint.ie.0.irq="5" +.Cd hint.ie.0.maddr="0xd0000" +.Sh HARDWARE +The +.Nm +driver provides supports the following 8 and 16bit ISA Ethernet cards +that are based on the Intel i82586 chip: +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +3COM 3C507 +.It +AT&T EN100 +.It +AT&T Starlan 10 +.It +AT&T Starlan Fiber +.It +Intel EtherExpress 16 +.It +RACAL Interlan NI5210 +.El +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "ie%d: unknown board type code %d" +An i82586 chip was found, but the driver was unable to determine the actual +board type during the probe. +.It "ie%d: kernel configured maddr %x doesn't match board configured maddr %x" +The device probe detected a different maddr than the one specified in the +kernel configuration file. +.It "ie%d: can't find shared memory" +The device probe could not access the shared memory to determine its size. +.It "ie%d: kernel configured msize %d doesn't match board configured msize %d" +The device probe found a different size for the shared memory than the one +specified in the kernel configuration file. +.It "ie%d: kernel configured irq %d doesn't match board configured irq %d" +The device probe detected that the board is configured for a different +interrupt than the one specified in the kernel configuration file. +.It "ie%d: reset" +The Intel i82586 had to be reset by the driver. +.It "ie%d: transceiver problem" +The driver has detected a problem with the Ethernet transceiver. +This is +usually due to a loose or broken transceiver cable when using an external +transceiver. +When you experience this problem with an on-card transceiver +your card may be incorrectly jumpered for to use an external transceiver. +Worst case your on-board transceiver may be broken. +.It "ie%d: TDR detected an open %d clocks away" +The driver detected an open circuit in the Ethernet cable. +Check your +coax cable and terminator resistors. +.It "ie%d: TDR detected a short %d clocks away" +The driver detected a short circuit in the Ethernet cable. +Check your +coax cable and terminator resistors. +.It "ie%d: TDR returned unknown status %x" +The driver got an unknown status from the card during the Ethernet cable +test. +.It "ie%d: multicast address setup command failed" +The card could not be put into multicast mode. +.It "ie%d: configure command failed" +The card refused to respond correctly during configuration. +.It "ie%d: individual address setup command failed" +The programming of the Ethernet (MAC) address failed. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr ng_ether 4 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +device driver was written by +.An Garrett A. Wollman , +based on code by +.An William F. Jolitz +and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories. +.Tn 3C507 +support was written by +.An Charles M. Hannum . +This manual page was written by +.An Wilko C. Bulte . +.Sh CAVEATS +The Racal Interlan NI5210 comes in variants with 8 and 16 kbytes of +shared memory. +It is strongly advisable to use the 16 kbyte variant. +You can upgrade your 8 kbyte card to 16 kbyte by adding an additional +RAM chip. |