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diff --git a/share/man/man4/rue.4 b/share/man/man4/rue.4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..06f91e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/rue.4 @@ -0,0 +1,154 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2001-2003, Shunsuke Akiyama <akiyama@FreeBSD.org>. +.\" 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 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 23, 2011 +.Dt RUE 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm rue +.Nd "RealTek RTL8150 USB to Fast Ethernet controller 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 uhci" +.Cd "device ohci" +.Cd "device usb" +.Cd "device miibus" +.Cd "device rue" +.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_rue_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the RealTek +RTL8150 USB to Fast Ethernet controller chip. +.Pp +The RTL8150 contains an integrated Fast Ethernet MAC, which supports +both 10 and 100Mbps speeds in either full or half duplex. +Although designed to interface with +100Mbps peripheral, the existing USB standard specifies a maximum +transfer speed of 12Mbps. +Users should therefore not expect to actually +achieve 100Mbps speeds with this device. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media types: +.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP" +.It Cm autoselect +Enable auto selection of the media type and options. +The user can manually override +the auto selected mode by adding media options to the +.Pa /etc/rc.conf +file. +.It Cm 10baseT/UTP +Set 10Mbps operation. +The +.Cm mediaopt +option can also be used to select either +.Cm full-duplex +or +.Cm half-duplex +modes. +.It Cm 100baseTX +Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. +The +.Cm mediaopt +option can also be used to select either +.Cm full-duplex +or +.Cm half-duplex +modes. +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media options: +.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP" +.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 +The +.Nm +driver supports RealTek RTL8150 based USB Ethernet +adapters including: +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +Buffalo (Melco Inc.) LUA-KTX +.It +Green House GH-USB100B +.It +LinkSys USB100M +.It +Billionton 10/100 FastEthernet USBKR2 +.El +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "rue%d: watchdog timeout" +A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was +issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the transmission +before a timeout expired. +.It "rue%d: rx list init failed" +The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the transmitter ring. +.It "rue%d: no memory for rx list" +The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr miibus 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr ng_ether 4 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Rs +.%T "RealTek RTL8150 data sheet" +.%U http://pdf.seekdatasheet.com/2008714/200807142333305235.pdf +.Re +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +device driver first appeared in +.Fx 5.1 . +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Shunsuke Akiyama Aq akiyama@FreeBSD.org . |