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IN NO EVENT SHALL Bill Paul OR THE VOICES IN HIS HEAD 24.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 25.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 26.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 27.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 28.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 29.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF 30.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man4/lge.4,v 1.2.2.3 2001/08/17 13:08:38 ru Exp $ 33.\" 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