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 1.14 2007/10/12 14:12:42 sephe 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 39.Xr ifmedia 4 40interface. 41A generic driver has been included for all PHYs that are not 42handled by a specific driver, this is possible because all 4310/100 PHYs implement the same general register set along with 44their vendor specific register set. 45.Pp 46The following network device drivers use the 47.Nm 48interface: 49.Pp 50.Bl -tag -compact -width ".Xr stge 4" 51.It Xr aue 4 52ADMtek USB Ethernet 53.It Xr axe 4 54ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB Ethernet 55.It Xr bce 4 56Broadcom BCM5706/BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet 57.It Xr bfe 4 58Broadcom BCM440x 10/100 Ethernet 59.It Xr bge 4 60Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet 61.It Xr dc 4 62DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes 63.It Xr ed 4 64NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390 cards 65.It Xr et 4 66Agere ET1310 10/100/1000 Ethernet 67.It Xr fxp 4 68Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B 69.It Xr gx 4 70Intel Pro/1000 82542/82543 Gigabit Ethernet 71.It Xr lge 4 72Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator Gigabit Ethernet 73.It Xr nfe 4 74NVIDIA nForce MCP 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet 75.It Xr nge 4 76National Semiconductor DP83820/DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet 77.It Xr pcn 4 78AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100 79.It Xr re 4 80RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S 81.It Xr rl 4 82RealTek 8129/8139 83.It Xr rue 4 84RealTek RTL8150 USB To Fast Ethernet 85.It Xr sf 4 86Adaptec AIC-6915 87.It Xr sis 4 88Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016 89.It Xr sk 4 90SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x Gigabit Ethernet 91.It Xr ste 4 92Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX) 93.It Xr stge 4 94Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet 95.It Xr tl 4 96Texas Instruments ThunderLAN 97.It Xr tx 4 98SMC EtherPower II (83c170) 99.It Xr vge 4 100VIA Networking Technologies VT6122 PCI Gigabit Ethernet 101.It Xr vr 4 102VIA Rhine, Rhine II 103.It Xr wb 4 104Winbond W89C840F 105.It Xr xl 4 1063Com 3c90x 107.El 108.Sh COMPATIBILITY 109The implementation of 110.Nm 111was originally intended to have similar API interfaces 112to 113.Bsx 3.0 114and 115.Nx , 116but as a result are not well behaved newbus device drivers. 117.Sh SEE ALSO 118.Xr arp 4 , 119.Xr aue 4 , 120.Xr axe 4 , 121.Xr bce 4 , 122.Xr bfe 4 , 123.Xr bge 4 , 124.Xr dc 4 , 125.Xr ed 4 , 126.Xr et 4 , 127.Xr fxp 4 , 128.Xr gx 4 , 129.Xr lge 4 , 130.Xr netintro 4 , 131.Xr nfe 4 , 132.Xr nge 4 , 133.Xr pcn 4 , 134.Xr re 4 , 135.Xr rl 4 , 136.Xr rue 4 , 137.Xr sf 4 , 138.Xr sis 4 , 139.Xr sk 4 , 140.Xr ste 4 , 141.Xr stge 4 , 142.Xr tl 4 , 143.Xr tx 4 , 144.Xr vge 4 , 145.Xr vr 4 , 146.Xr wb 4 , 147.Xr xl 4 148.Sh STANDARDS 149More information on MII can be found in the IEEE 802.3 Standard. 150.Sh HISTORY 151The 152.Nm 153driver first appeared in 154.Fx 3.3 . 155.Sh AUTHORS 156This manual page was written by 157.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org . 158