1.\" Written by Tom Rhodes for the FreeBSD Project. 2.\" Please see the /usr/src/COPYRIGHT file for copyright information. 3.\" 4.\" This document takes information from the IEEE 802.3 Standard 5.\" along with various comments from Peter Wemm, Robert Watson, and Bill Paul. 6.\" Originally this file looked much like the NetBSD mii(4) manual page, but 7.\" I doubt you would ever notice due to large differences. 8.\" 9.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man4/miibus.4,v 1.3.2.6 2004/03/01 09:22:11 brueffer Exp $ 10.\" 11.Dd July 26, 2008 12.Dt MIIBUS 4 13.Os 14.Sh NAME 15.Nm miibus 16.Nd IEEE 802.3 Media Independent Interface network bus 17.Sh SYNOPSIS 18For most network interface cards (NIC): 19.Cd "device miibus" 20.Sh DESCRIPTION 21The 22.Nm 23driver provides an interconnection between the Media Access Control (MAC) 24sublayer, the Physical Layer entities (PHY), Station Management (STA) 25entities, and the PHY Layer as defined by the IEEE 802.3 Standard. 26.Pp 27The 28.Nm 29layer allows network device drivers to share common support 30code for various external PHY devices. 31Most 10/100 network interface cards either use an MII transceiver 32or have built-in transceivers that can be programmed using an MII 33interface. 34The 35.Nm 36driver currently handles all of the media detection, 37selection, and reporting using the 38.Xr ifmedia 4 39interface. 40A generic driver has been included for all PHYs that are not 41handled by a specific driver, this is possible because all 4210/100 PHYs implement the same general register set along with 43their vendor specific register set. 44.Pp 45The following network device drivers use the 46.Nm 47interface: 48.Pp 49.Bl -tag -compact -width ".Xr stge 4" 50.It Xr aue 4 51ADMtek USB Ethernet 52.It Xr axe 4 53ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB Ethernet 54.It Xr bce 4 55Broadcom BCM5706/BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet 56.It Xr bfe 4 57Broadcom BCM440x 10/100 Ethernet 58.It Xr bge 4 59Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet 60.It Xr dc 4 61DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes 62.It Xr ed 4 63NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390 cards 64.It Xr et 4 65Agere ET1310 10/100/1000 Ethernet 66.It Xr fxp 4 67Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B 68.It Xr jme 4 69JMicron Gigabit Ethernet 70.It Xr lge 4 71Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator Gigabit Ethernet 72.It Xr msk 4 73Marvell/SysKonnect Yukon II Gigabit Ethernet 74.It Xr nfe 4 75NVIDIA nForce MCP 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet 76.It Xr nge 4 77National Semiconductor DP83820/DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet 78.It Xr pcn 4 79AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100 80.It Xr re 4 81RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S 82.It Xr rl 4 83RealTek 8129/8139 84.It Xr rue 4 85RealTek RTL8150 USB To Fast Ethernet 86.It Xr sf 4 87Adaptec AIC-6915 88.It Xr sis 4 89Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016 90.It Xr sk 4 91SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x Gigabit Ethernet 92.It Xr ste 4 93Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX) 94.It Xr stge 4 95Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet 96.It Xr tl 4 97Texas Instruments ThunderLAN 98.It Xr tx 4 99SMC EtherPower II (83c170) 100.It Xr vge 4 101VIA Networking Technologies VT6122 PCI Gigabit Ethernet 102.It Xr vr 4 103VIA Rhine, Rhine II 104.It Xr wb 4 105Winbond W89C840F 106.It Xr xl 4 1073Com 3c90x 108.El 109.Sh COMPATIBILITY 110The implementation of 111.Nm 112was originally intended to have similar API interfaces 113to 114.Bsx 3.0 115and 116.Nx , 117but as a result are not well behaved newbus device drivers. 118.Sh SEE ALSO 119.Xr arp 4 , 120.Xr aue 4 , 121.Xr axe 4 , 122.Xr bce 4 , 123.Xr bfe 4 , 124.Xr bge 4 , 125.Xr dc 4 , 126.Xr ed 4 , 127.Xr et 4 , 128.Xr fxp 4 , 129.Xr jme 4 , 130.Xr lge 4 , 131.Xr msk 4 , 132.Xr netintro 4 , 133.Xr nfe 4 , 134.Xr nge 4 , 135.Xr pcn 4 , 136.Xr re 4 , 137.Xr rl 4 , 138.Xr rue 4 , 139.Xr sf 4 , 140.Xr sis 4 , 141.Xr sk 4 , 142.Xr ste 4 , 143.Xr stge 4 , 144.Xr tl 4 , 145.Xr tx 4 , 146.Xr vge 4 , 147.Xr vr 4 , 148.Xr wb 4 , 149.Xr xl 4 150.Sh STANDARDS 151More information on MII can be found in the IEEE 802.3 Standard. 152.Sh HISTORY 153The 154.Nm 155driver first appeared in 156.Fx 3.3 . 157.Sh AUTHORS 158This manual page was written by 159.An Tom Rhodes Aq Mt trhodes@FreeBSD.org . 160