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34.Dd May 30, 2001
35.Dt LGE 4
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm lge
39.Nd "Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator PCI gigabit ethernet adapter driver"
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Cd "device miibus"
42.Cd "device lge"
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The
45.Nm
46driver provides support for various NICs based on the Level 1 LXT1001
47NetCellerator gigabit ethernet controller chip, including the
48following:
49.Pp
50.Bl -bullet -compact
51.It
52SMC TigerCard 1000 (SMC9462SX)
53.It
54D-Link DGE-500SX
55.El
56.Pp
57These NICs are capable of 1000mbps speeds over fiber optic cable.
58The LXT1001 also supports a GMII port for use with 10/100/1000 copper
59PHYs, however there aren't currently any NICs on the market that use
60this feature.
61.Pp
62The LXT1001 supports TCP/IP checksum offload for receive and
63VLAN-based filtering as well as a 64-bit multicast hash filter.
64It also supports jumbo frames, which can be configured
65via the interface MTU setting.
66Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the
67.Xr ifconfig 8
68utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit jumbo frames.
69Using jumbo frames can greatly improve performance for certain tasks,
70such as file transfers and data streaming.
71.Pp
72The
73.Nm
74driver supports the following media types:
75.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 1000baseSX"
76.It Cm autoselect
77Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
78The user can manually override
79the autoselected mode by adding media options to
80.Xr rc.conf 5 .
81.It Cm 1000baseSX
82Set 1000baseSX operation over fiber optic cable.
83Both
84.Cm full-duplex
85and
86.Cm half-duplex
87modes are supported.
88.El
89.Pp
90The
91.Nm
92driver supports the following media options:
93.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex"
94.It Cm full-duplex
95Force full duplex operation.
96.It Cm half-duplex
97Force half duplex operation.
98.El
99.Pp
100For more information on configuring this device, see
101.Xr ifconfig 8 .
102.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
103.Bl -diag
104.It "lge%d: couldn't map memory"
105A fatal initialization error has occurred.
106.It "lge%d: couldn't map ports"
107A fatal initialization error has occurred.
108.It "lge%d: couldn't map interrupt"
109A fatal initialization error has occurred.
110.It "lge%d: no memory for softc struct!"
111The driver failed to allocate memory for per-device instance information
112during initialization.
113.It "lge%d: failed to enable memory mapping!"
114The driver failed to initialize PCI shared memory mapping.
115This might
116happen if the card is not in a bus-master slot.
117.It "lge%d: no memory for jumbo buffers!"
118The driver failed to allocate memory for jumbo frames during
119initialization.
120.It "lge%d: watchdog timeout"
121The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with
122the network connection (cable).
123.El
124.Sh SEE ALSO
125.Xr arp 4 ,
126.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
127.Xr miibus 4 ,
128.Xr netintro 4 ,
129.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
130.Xr ifconfig 8
131.Rs
132.%T Level 1 LXT1001 Programming Manual
133.%U http://www.FreeBSD.org/~wpaul/Level1/LXT1001SRM.pdf
134.Re
135.Sh HISTORY
136The
137.Nm
138device driver first appeared in
139.Fx 4.4 .
140.Sh AUTHORS
141The
142.Nm
143driver was written by
144.An Bill Paul Aq Mt william.paul@windriver.com .
145