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.\" $DragonFly: src/share/man/man4/miibus.4,v 1.8 2007/03/11 03:39:25 swildner Exp $ 11.\" 12.Dd February 15, 2003 13.Dt MIIBUS 4 14.Os 15.Sh NAME 16.Nm miibus 17.Nd IEEE 802.3 Media Independent Interface network bus 18.Sh SYNOPSIS 19For most network interface cards (NIC): 20.Cd "device miibus" 21.Sh DESCRIPTION 22The 23.Nm 24driver provides an interconnection between the Media Access Control (MAC) 25sublayer, the Physical Layer entities (PHY), Station Management (STA) 26entities, and the PHY Layer as defined by the IEEE 802.3 Standard. 27.Pp 28The 29.Nm 30layer allows network device drivers to share common support 31code for various external PHY devices. 32Most 10/100 network interface cards either use an MII transceiver 33or have built-in transceivers that can be programmed using an MII 34interface. 35The 36.Nm 37driver currently handles all of the media detection, 38selection, and reporting using the ifmedia interface. 39A generic driver has been included for all PHYs that are not 40handled by a specific driver, this is possible because all 4110/100 PHYs implement the same general register set along with 42their vendor specific register set. 43.Pp 44The following network device drivers use the 45.Nm 46interface: 47.Pp 48.Bl -tag -compact -width ".Xr fxp 4" 49.It Xr aue 4 50ADMtek USB Ethernet 51.It Xr axe 4 52ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB Ethernet 53.It Xr bfe 4 54Broadcom BCM440x 10/100 Ethernet 55.It Xr bge 4 56Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet 57.It Xr dc 4 58DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes 59.It Xr ed 4 60NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390 cards 61.It Xr fxp 4 62Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B 63.It Xr gx 4 64Intel Pro/1000 82542/82543 Gigabit Ethernet 65.It Xr lge 4 66Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator Gigabit Ethernet 67.It Xr nfe 4 68NVIDIA nForce MCP 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet 69.It Xr nge 4 70National Semiconductor DP83820/DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet 71.It Xr nv 4 72NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter 73.It Xr pcn 4 74AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100 75.It Xr re 4 76RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S 77.It Xr rl 4 78RealTek 8129/8139 79.It Xr rue 4 80RealTek RTL8150 USB To Fast Ethernet 81.It Xr sf 4 82Adaptec AIC-6915 83.It Xr sis 4 84Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016 85.It Xr sk 4 86SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x Gigabit Ethernet 87.It Xr ste 4 88Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX) 89.It Xr stge 4 90Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet 91.It Xr tl 4 92Texas Instruments ThunderLAN 93.It Xr tx 4 94SMC EtherPower II (83c170) 95.It Xr vge 4 96VIA Networking Technologies VT6122 PCI Gigabit Ethernet 97.It Xr vr 4 98VIA Rhine, Rhine II 99.It Xr wb 4 100Winbond W89C840F 101.It Xr xl 4 1023Com 3c90x 103.El 104.Sh COMPATIBILITY 105The implementation of 106.Nm 107was originally intended to have similar API interfaces 108to 109.Bsx 3.0 110and 111.Nx , 112but as a result are not well behaved newbus device drivers. 113.Sh SEE ALSO 114.Xr arp 4 , 115.Xr aue 4 , 116.Xr axe 4 , 117.Xr bfe 4 , 118.Xr bge 4 , 119.Xr dc 4 , 120.Xr ed 4 , 121.Xr fxp 4 , 122.Xr gx 4 , 123.Xr lge 4 , 124.Xr netintro 4 , 125.Xr nfe 4 , 126.Xr nge 4 , 127.Xr nv 4 , 128.Xr pcn 4 , 129.Xr re 4 , 130.Xr rl 4 , 131.Xr rue 4 , 132.Xr sf 4 , 133.Xr sis 4 , 134.Xr sk 4 , 135.Xr ste 4 , 136.Xr stge 4 , 137.Xr tl 4 , 138.Xr tx 4 , 139.Xr vge 4 , 140.Xr vr 4 , 141.Xr wb 4 , 142.Xr xl 4 143.Sh STANDARDS 144More information on MII can be found in the IEEE 802.3 Standard. 145.Sh HISTORY 146The 147.Nm 148driver first appeared in 149.Fx 3.3 . 150.Sh AUTHORS 151This manual page was written by 152.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org . 153