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