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IN NO EVENT SHALL Bill Paul OR THE VOICES IN HIS HEAD 23.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 24.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 25.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 26.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 27.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 28.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF 29.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" 31.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man4/sf.4,v 1.9.2.6 2003/02/17 21:20:39 trhodes Exp $ 32.\" 33.Dd July 22, 1999 34.Dt SF 4 35.Os 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm sf 38.Nd Adaptec AIC-6915 39.Qq Starfire 40PCI fast ethernet adapter driver 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Cd "device miibus" 43.Cd "device sf" 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45The 46.Nm 47driver provides support for Adaptec Duralink fast ethernet adapters 48based on the Adaptec AIC-6915 "Starfire" chipset. 49This includes the 50following: 51.Pp 52.Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent 53.It 54ANA-62011 64-bit single port 10/100baseTX adapter 55.It 56ANA-62022 64-bit dual port 10/100baseTX adapter 57.It 58ANA-62044 64-bit quad port 10/100baseTX adapter 59.It 60ANA-69011 32-bit single port 10/100baseTX adapter 61.It 62ANA-62020 64-bit single port 100baseFX adapter 63.El 64.Pp 65The AIC-6915 is a bus master controller with an MII interface. 66It 67supports high and low priority transmit and receive queues, TCP/IP 68checksum offload, multiple DMA descriptor formats and both polling 69and producer/consumer DMA models. 70The AIC-6915 receive filtering 71options include a 16 entry perfect filter, a 512-bit hash table 72for multicast addresses, a 512-bit hash table for priority address 73matching and VLAN filtering. 74An external MII-compliant transceiver 75is required for media interfacing. 76.Pp 77Multiport adapters consist of several AIC-6915 controllers connected 78via a PCI to PCI bridge. 79Each controller is treated as a separate 80interface by the 81.Nm 82driver. 83.Pp 84The 85.Nm 86driver supports the following media types: 87.Pp 88.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 89.It autoselect 90Enable autoselection of the media type and options. 91The user can manually override 92the autoselected mode by adding media options to the 93.Pa /etc/rc.conf 94file. 95.It 10baseT/UTP 96Set 10Mbps operation. 97The 98.Ar mediaopt 99option can also be used to select either 100.Ar full-duplex 101or 102.Ar half-duplex 103modes. 104.It 100baseTX 105Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation. 106The 107.Ar mediaopt 108option can also be used to select either 109.Ar full-duplex 110or 111.Ar half-duplex 112modes. 113.El 114.Pp 115The 116.Nm 117driver supports the following media options: 118.Pp 119.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 120.It full-duplex 121Force full duplex operation 122.It half-duplex 123Force half duplex operation. 124.El 125.Pp 126For more information on configuring this device, see 127.Xr ifconfig 8 . 128.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 129.Bl -diag 130.It "sf%d: couldn't map memory" 131A fatal initialization error has occurred. 132This may 133happen if the PCI BIOS not configured the device, which may be because 134the BIOS has been configured for a "Plug and Play" operating system. 135The "Plug and Play OS" setting int he BIOS should be set to "no" or 136"off" in order for PCI devices to work properly with 137.Fx . 138.It "sf%d: couldn't map ports" 139A fatal initialization error has occurred. 140This may 141happen if the PCI BIOS not configured the device, which may be because 142the BIOS has been configured for a "Plug and Play" operating system. 143The "Plug and Play OS" setting int he BIOS should be set to "no" or 144"off" in order for PCI devices to work properly with 145.Fx . 146.It "sf%d: couldn't map interrupt" 147A fatal initialization error has occurred. 148.It "sf%d: no memory for softc struct!" 149The driver failed to allocate memory for per-device instance information 150during initialization. 151.It "sf%d: failed to enable I/O ports/memory mapping!" 152The driver failed to initialize PCI I/O port or shared memory access. 153This might happen if the card is not in a bus-master slot. 154.It "sf%d: watchdog timeout" 155The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with 156the network connection (cable). 157.El 158.Sh SEE ALSO 159.Xr arp 4 , 160.Xr miibus 4 , 161.Xr netintro 4 , 162.Xr ng_ether 4 , 163.Xr ifconfig 8 164.Rs 165.%T The Adaptec AIC-6915 Programmer's Manual 166.%O ftp://ftp.adaptec.com/pub/BBS/userguides/aic6915_pg.pdf 167.Re 168.Sh HISTORY 169The 170.Nm 171device driver first appeared in 172.Fx 3.0 . 173.Sh AUTHORS 174The 175.Nm 176driver was written by 177.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu . 178