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38.Dd April 5, 2002
39.Dt FXP 4
40.Os
41.Sh NAME
42.Nm fxp
43.Nd Intel i8255x 10/100 Ethernet device driver
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.Cd "fxp* at cardbus? dev ? function ?"
46.Cd "fxp* at pci? dev ? function ?"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm
50device driver supports Ethernet interfaces based on the Intel i82557,
51i82558, i82559, and i82550 10/100 PCI Ethernet chips.
52.Pp
53Certain versions of the i8255x support loading microcode which implements
54a receive interrupt mitigation function, known as
55.Dq CPUSaver .
56Use of this option can improve performance in some situations by reducing
57interrupt load on the host.  This option is available on the following
58chip versions:
59.Pp
60.Bl -bullet -compact
61.It
62i82558 step A4 (rev 4)
63.It
64i82558 step B0 (rev 5)
65.It
66i82559 step A0 (rev 8)
67.It
68i82559S step A (rev 9)
69.It
70i82550 (rev 12)
71.It
72i82550 step C (rev 13)
73.El
74.Pp
75This option is enabled by setting the
76.Dq link0
77option with
78.Xr ifconfig 8 .
79.Sh HARDWARE
80Cards supported by the
81.Nm
82driver include:
83.Pp
84.Bl -bullet -compact
85.It
86Intel EtherExpress Pro 10+
87.It
88Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B
89.It
90Intel EtherExpress Pro 100+
91.It
92Intel InBusiness 10/100
93.It
94Intel PRO/100 S
95.El
96.Sh MEDIA SELECTION
97Media selection is supported via MII.  See
98.Xr ifmedia 4
99and
100.Xr mii 4
101for more information.
102.Pp
103EtherExpress Pro 10+ boards may use a Seeq 80c24 AutoDUPLEX(tm)
104media interface.  Boards with these chips do not support media
105selection, as the 80c24 has no programming interface, and no
106way to read link status.  These boards claim a media of "manual"
107since they self-configure based on the configuration of the link
108partner (hub or switch).
109.Pp
110.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
111.Bl -diag
112.It "fxp0: WARNING: SCB timed out!"
113The driver timed out waiting for the chip's command interface to
114become ready.
115.It "fxp0: too many segments, aborting"
116The driver encountered a packet that included too many DMA segments,
117and was not able to allocate a new buffer to transmit the packet from.
118The packet has been dropped.
119.It "fxp0: too many segments, retrying"
120The driver encountered a packet that included too many DMA segments,
121and allocated a new buffer to transmit the packet from.
122.It "fxp0: can't load mbuf chain, error = %d"
123The driver was unable to load a transmit DMA map, and has reported the
124errno value.
125.It "fxp0: device timeout"
126The device failed to generate a transmit complete interrupt for the
127last packet transmitted.  The device has been reset.
128.It "fxp0: can't load rx buffer, error = %d"
129The driver was unable to load the DMA map for a receive buffer, and
130has reported the errno value.  This error is currently fatal, and will
131panic the system.
132.It "fxp0: fxp_mdi_read: timed out"
133The MDIO failed to become ready during an MII read operation.
134.It "fxp0: fxp_mdi_write: timed out"
135The MDIO failed to become ready during an MII write operation.
136.El
137.Sh SEE ALSO
138.Xr cardbus 4 ,
139.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
140.Xr intro 4 ,
141.Xr mii 4 ,
142.Xr pci 4 ,
143.Xr ifconfig 8
144