109 lines
3.4 KiB
Groff
109 lines
3.4 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: bge.4,v 1.7 2003/09/28 18:32:18 wiz Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 2003 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
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.\" by Matthias Scheler <tron@NetBSD.org>.
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.\"
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by the NetBSD
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.\" Foundation, Inc. and its contributors.
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.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.Dd January 31, 2003
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.Dt BGE 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm bge
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.Nd Broadcom BCM570x family Gigabit Ethernet driver
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Cd "bge* at pci? dev ? function ?"
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.Pp
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Configuration of PHYs may also be necessary. See
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.Xr mii 4 .
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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device driver supports Gigabit Ethernet interfaces based on the Broadcom
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BCM570x family of Gigabit Ethernet chips.
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The interfaces supported by the
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.Nm
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driver include:
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.Bl -bullet
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.It
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3Com 3c996-T (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T)
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.It
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Dell PowerEdge 2550 integrated BCM5700 NIC (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T)
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.It
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IBM x235 server integrated BCM5703x NIC (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T)
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.It
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Netgear GA302T (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T)
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.It
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SysKonnect SK-9D21 (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T)
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.It
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SysKonnect SK-9D41 (1000BASE-SX)
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.El
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.Pp
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The BCM570x family supports IPv4/TCP/UDP checksumming in hardware.
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The
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.Nm
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driver supports this feature of the chip.
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See
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.Xr ifconfig 8
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for information on how to enable this feature.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr arp 4 ,
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.Xr bce 4 ,
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.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
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.Xr mii 4 ,
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.Xr netintro 4 ,
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.Xr pci 4 ,
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.Xr ifconfig 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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driver first appeared in
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.Nx 1.6.1 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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The
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.Nm
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driver was written by
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.An Bill Paul
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.Aq wpaul@windriver.com
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for
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.Fx
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and ported to
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.Nx
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by
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.An Frank van der Linden
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.Aq fvdl@wasabisystems.com ,
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.An Jason R. Thorpe
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.Aq thorpej@wasabisystems.com
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and
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.An Jonathan Stone
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.Aq jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu .
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