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.\"	$NetBSD: le.4,v 1.22 2004/10/04 19:12:52 rumble Exp $
.\"
.\"-
.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
.\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" This software was developed by the Computer Systems Engineering group
.\" at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory under DARPA contract BG 91-66 and
.\" contributed to Berkeley.
.\"
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\"	from: Header: le.4,v 1.2 92/10/13 05:31:33 leres Exp
.\"	from: @(#)le.4	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd January 20, 2007
.Dt LE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm le
.Nd "AMD Am7900 LANCE and Am79C9xx ILACC/PCnet Ethernet interface 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 le"
.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_le_load="YES"
.Ed
.Pp
For C-Bus non-PnP adapters, the port address and the IRQ number have to be
specified in
.Pa /boot/device.hints :
.Cd hint.le.0.at="isa"
.Cd hint.le.0.port="0x03d0"
.Cd hint.le.0.irq="6"
.Pp
For ISA non-PnP adapters, the port address as well as the IRQ and the DRQ
numbers have to be specified in
.Pa /boot/device.hints :
.Cd hint.le.0.at="isa"
.Cd hint.le.0.port="0x280"
.Cd hint.le.0.irq="10"
.Cd hint.le.0.drq="0"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for Ethernet adapters based on the
.Tn AMD Am7990
and
.Tn Am79C90
.Pq CMOS, pin-compatible
Local Area Network Controller for Ethernet
.Pq Tn LANCE
chips.
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver also supports Ethernet adapters based on the
.Tn AMD Am79C900
Integrated Local Area Communications Controller
.Pq Tn ILACC
as well as the
.Tn Am79C9xx PCnet
family of chips, which are single-chip implementations of a
.Tn LANCE
chip and a DMA engine.
This includes a superset of the
.Tn PCI
bus Ethernet chips supported by the
.Xr pcn 4
driver.
The
.Nm
driver treats all of these
.Tn PCI
bus Ethernet chips 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 chips.
Thus the
.Xr pcn 4
driver should be preferred for the latter.
.Pp
Generally, the
.Nm
driver aims at supporting as many different chips on as many different
platforms as possible,
partially at the cost of the best performance with some of these.
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver supports reception and transmission of extended frames for
.Xr vlan 4 .
Selective reception of multicast Ethernet frames is provided by a 64-bit mask;
multicast destination addresses are hashed to a bit entry using the Ethernet
CRC function.
.Sh HARDWARE
.Ss C-Bus and ISA
The
.Nm
driver supports
.Tn C-Bus
and
.Tn ISA
bus Ethernet adapters which are based on the following chips:
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
.Tn AMD Am7990 and Am79C90 LANCE
.It
.Tn AMD Am79C960 PCnet-ISA
.It
.Tn AMD Am79C961 PCnet-ISA+
.It
.Tn AMD Am79C961A PCnet-ISA II
.El
.Pp
This includes support for the following Ethernet adapters:
.Pp
C-Bus non-PnP:
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
.Tn Contec C-NET(98)S
.El
.Pp
ISA non-PnP:
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
.Tn BICC Isolan
.\" .It
.\" .Tn Digital DEPCA
.It
.Tn Novell NE2100
.El
.Pp
ISA PnP:
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
.Tn AMD AM1500T/AM2100
.It
.Tn AMD PCnet-32
.It
.Tn AMD PCnet-ISA
.It
.Tn Allied Telesyn AT-1500
.It
.Tn Boca LANCard Combo
.It
.Tn Cabletron E2100 Series DNI
.It
.Tn Cabletron E2200 Single Chip
.It
.Tn Melco Inc. LGY-IV
.It
.Tn Novell NE2100
.It
.Tn Racal InterLan EtherBlaster
.El
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver does not support the selection of media types and options via
.Xr ifconfig 8
with
.Tn C-Bus
and
.Tn ISA
bus Ethernet adapters.
.\" .Ss EISA
.\" The
.\" .Tn EISA
.\" bus Ethernet cards supported by the
.\" .Nm
.\" driver are:
.\" .Pp
.\" .Bl -bullet -compact
.\" .It
.\" .Tn DEC DE422
.\" .El
.\" .Ss MCA
.\" The
.\" .Tn MCA
.\" bus Ethernet cards supported by the
.\" .Nm
.\" driver are:
.\" .Pp
.\" .Bl -bullet -compact
.\" .It
.\" .Tn SKNET Personal MC2
.\" .It
.\" .Tn SKNET MC2+
.\" .El
.Ss PCI
The
.Tn PCI
bus Ethernet chips supported by the
.Nm
driver are:
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
.Tn AMD Am53C974/Am79C970/Am79C974 PCnet-PCI
.It
.Tn AMD Am79C970A PCnet-PCI II
.It
.Tn AMD Am79C971 PCnet-FAST
.It
.Tn AMD Am79C972 PCnet-FAST+
.It
.Tn AMD Am79C973/Am79C975 PCnet-FAST III
.It
.Tn AMD Am79C976 PCnet-PRO
.It
.Tn AMD Am79C978 PCnet-Home
.El
.Pp
This includes support for the following Ethernet adapters:
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
.Tn AcerLAN NIC P20
.It
.Tn Allied Telesyn AT-2450 and AT-2700 series
.It
.Tn VMware emulated AMD Am79C970A PCnet-PCI II interface
.El
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver supports the selection of the following media types via
.Xr ifconfig 8
with
.Tn PCI
bus Ethernet adapters:
.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10base5/AUI"
.It Cm autoselect
Enable autoselection of the media type.
.It Cm 10baseT/UTP
Select UTP media.
.It Cm 10base5/AUI
Select AUI/BNC media.
.El
.Pp
The following media option is supported with these media types:
.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex"
.It Cm full-duplex
Select full duplex operation.
.El
.Pp
Note that unlike the
.Xr pcn 4
driver, the
.Nm
driver does not support selecting 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) media types.
.Ss sparc64
The
.Nm
driver supports the on-board
.Tn LANCE
interfaces found in
.Tn Sun Ultra 1
machines.
The
.Nm
driver allows the selection of the following media types via
.Xr ifconfig 8
with these on-board interfaces:
.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10base5/AUI"
.It Cm autoselect
Enable autoselection of the media type.
.It Cm 10baseT/UTP
Select UTP media.
.It Cm 10base5/AUI
Select AUI media.
.El
.Pp
When using autoselection, a default media type is selected for use by
examining all ports for carrier.
The first media type with which a carrier is detected will be selected.
Additionally, if carrier is dropped on a port, the driver will switch
between the possible ports until one with carrier is found.
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver also supports the following
.Tn Sun SBus
Ethernet add-on adapters:
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
.Tn SCSI HBA and Buffered Ethernet
.Pq SBE/S, P/N 501-1869
.It
.Tn Fast SCSI and Buffered Ethernet
.Pq FSBE/S, P/N 501-2015 and 501-2981
.El
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver does not support the selection of media types and options via
.Xr ifconfig 8
with
.Tn SBus
Ethernet add-on adapters.
.Pp
For further information on configuring media types and options, see
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It "le%d: overflow"
More packets came in from the Ethernet than there was space in the
.Tn LANCE
receive buffers.
Packets were missed.
.It "le%d: receive buffer error"
The
.Tn LANCE
ran out of buffer space, packet dropped.
.It "le%d: lost carrier"
The Ethernet carrier disappeared during an attempt to transmit.
The
.Tn LANCE
will finish transmitting the current packet,
but will not automatically retry transmission if there is a collision.
.It "le%d: excessive collisions, tdr %d"
The Ethernet was extremely busy or jammed,
outbound packets were dropped after 16 attempts to retransmit.
.Pp
TDR
is the abbreviation of
.Qq Time Domain Reflectometry .
The optionally reported TDR value is an internal counter of the interval
between the start of a transmission and the occurrence of a collision.
This value can be used to determine the distance from the Ethernet tap to
the point on the Ethernet cable that is shorted or open (unterminated).
.It "le%d: dropping chained buffer"
A packet did not fit into a single receive buffer and was dropped.
Since the
.Nm
driver allocates buffers large enough to receive maximum sized Ethernet
packets, this means some other station on the LAN transmitted a packet
larger than allowed by the Ethernet standard.
.It "le%d: transmit buffer error"
The
.Tn LANCE
ran out of buffer space before finishing the transmission of a packet.
If this error occurs, the driver software has a bug.
.It "le%d: underflow"
The
.Tn LANCE
ran out of buffer space before finishing the transmission of a packet.
If this error occurs, the driver software has a bug.
.It "le%d: controller failed to initialize"
Driver failed to start the
.Tn LANCE .
This is potentially a hardware failure.
.It "le%d: memory error"
RAM failed to respond within the timeout when the
.Tn LANCE
wanted to read or write it.
This is potentially a hardware failure.
.It "le%d: receiver disabled"
The receiver of the
.Tn LANCE
was turned off due to an error.
.It "le%d: transmitter disabled"
The transmitter of the
.Tn LANCE
was turned off due to an error.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr altq 4 ,
.Xr arp 4 ,
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr netintro 4 ,
.Xr pcn 4 ,
.Xr vlan 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver was ported from
.Nx
and first appeared in
.Fx 6.1 .
The
.Nx
version in turn was derived from the
.Nm
driver which first appeared in
.Bx 4.4 .
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
driver was ported by
.An Marius Strobl Aq Mt marius@FreeBSD.org .
.\" .Sh BUGS
.\" The Am7990 Revision C chips have a bug which causes garbage to be inserted
.\" in front of the received packet occasionally.
.\" The work-around is to ignore packets with an invalid destination address
.\" (garbage will usually not match), by double-checking the destination
.\" address of every packet in the driver.
.\" This work-around can be enabled with the
.\" .Dv LANCE_REVC_BUG
.\" kernel option.
.\" .Pp
.\" When
.\" .Dv LANCE_REVC_BUG
.\" is enabled, the
.\" .Nm
.\" driver executes one or two calls to an inline Ethernet address comparison
.\" function for every received packet.
.\" On the
.\" .Tn MC68000
.\" it is exactly eight instructions of 16 bits each.
.\" There is one comparison for each unicast packet, and two comparisons for
.\" each broadcast packet.
.\" .Pp
.\" In summary, the cost of the LANCE_REVC_BUG option is:
.\" .Bl -enum -compact
.\" .It
.\" loss of multicast support, and
.\" .It
.\" eight extra
.\" .Tn CPU
.\" instructions per received packet, sometimes sixteen, depending on both the
.\" processor, and the type of packet.
.\" .El
.\" .Pp
.\" All sun3 systems are presumed to have this bad revision of the Am7990,
.\" until proven otherwise.
.\" Alas, the only way to prove what revision of the chip is in a particular
.\" system is inspection of the date code on the chip package,
.\" to compare against a list of what chip revisions were fabricated between
.\" which dates.
.\" .Pp
.\" Alas, the Am7990 chip is so old that
.\" .Tn AMD
.\" has
.\" .Qq de-archived
.\" the production information about it; pending a search elsewhere, we do not
.\" know how to identify the revision C chip from the date codes.
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