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29.Dd January 19, 1997
30.Dt DE 4
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm de
34.Nd DEC DC21x4x Ethernet device driver
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.Cd "device de"
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The
39.Nm
40driver provides support for the Ethernet adapters based on the Digital
41Equipment DC21x4x based self-contained Ethernet chips.
42.Pp
43It supports the DEC PCI DE435 card, DEC EISA DE425, DEC DE450, DEC DE500,
44SMC 8432, 9332 and 9334, Cogent EM100FX and EM440TX, Asante,
45ZNYX ZX3xx, and others based on the 21040 and 21041 Ethernet controllers or
46the 21140[A], 21141, 21142 and 21143 Fast 100Mbps Ethernet controllers.
47.Pp
48The
49.Nm
50driver supports the following media types:
51.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
52.It autoselect
53Enable autoselection of the media type and options
54.It 10baseT/UTP
55Set 10Mbps operation on the 10baseT port
56.It 10base2/BNC
57Set 10Mbps operation on the BNC port
58.It 10base5/AUI
59Set 10Mbps operation on the AUI port
60.It 100baseTX
61Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation
62.It 100baseFX
63Set 100Mbps operation
64.It 100baseT4
65Set 100Mbps operation (4-pair cat-3 cable)
66.El
67.Pp
68The
69.Nm
70driver supports the following media options:
71.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
72.It full-duplex
73Set full duplex operation
74.El
75.Pp
76Note that the media types available depend on the particular card in use.
77Some cards are explicitly programmed to a particular media type by a
78setup utility and are not changeable.
79.Pp
80Use the
81.Xr ifconfig 8
82command an in particular the
83.Fl m
84flag to list the supported media types for your particular card.
85.Pp
86The old
87.Dq ifconfig linkN
88method of configuration is not supported.
89.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
90.Bl -diag
91.It "de%d: waking device from sleep/snooze mode"
92The 21041 and 21140A chips support suspending the operation of the card.
93.It "de%d: error: desired IRQ of %d does not match device's actual IRQ of %d"
94The device probe detected that the board is configured for a different
95interrupt than the one specified in the kernel configuration file.
96.It "de%d: not configured; limit of %d reached or exceeded"
97There is a limit of 32
98.Nm
99devices allowed in a single machine.
100.It "de%d: not configured; 21040 pass 2.0 required (%d.%d found)"
101.It "de%d: not configured; 21140 pass 1.1 required (%d.%d found)"
102Certain revisions of the chipset are not supported by this driver.
103.El
104.Sh CAVEATS
105Since the 21040 is available on both EISA and PCI boards, one must be careful
106in how defines the 21040 in the kernel config file.
107.Sh SEE ALSO
108.Xr arp 4 ,
109.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
110.Xr netintro 4 ,
111.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
112.Xr ifconfig 8
113.Sh AUTHORS
114.An -nosplit
115The
116.Nm
117device driver was written by
118.An Matt Thomas .
119This manual page was written by
120.An David E. O'Brien .
121