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IN NO EVENT SHALL Bill Paul OR THE VOICES IN HIS HEAD 23.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 24.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 25.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 26.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 27.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 28.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF 29.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" 31.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man4/sf.4,v 1.9.2.6 2003/02/17 21:20:39 trhodes Exp $ 32.\" 33.Dd July 22, 1999 34.Dt SF 4 35.Os 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm sf 38.Nd Adaptec AIC-6915 39.Qq Starfire 40PCI fast ethernet adapter driver 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Cd "device miibus" 43.Cd "device sf" 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45The 46.Nm 47driver provides support for Adaptec Duralink fast ethernet adapters 48based on the Adaptec AIC-6915 "Starfire" chipset. 49This includes the 50following: 51.Pp 52.Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent 53.It 54ANA-62011 64-bit single port 10/100baseTX adapter 55.It 56ANA-62022 64-bit dual port 10/100baseTX adapter 57.It 58ANA-62044 64-bit quad port 10/100baseTX adapter 59.It 60ANA-69011 32-bit single port 10/100baseTX adapter 61.It 62ANA-62020 64-bit single port 100baseFX adapter 63.El 64.Pp 65The AIC-6915 is a bus master controller with an MII interface. 66It 67supports high and low priority transmit and receive queues, TCP/IP 68checksum offload, multiple DMA descriptor formats and both polling 69and producer/consumer DMA models. 70The AIC-6915 receive filtering 71options include a 16 entry perfect filter, a 512-bit hash table 72for multicast addresses, a 512-bit hash table for priority address 73matching and VLAN filtering. 74An external MII-compliant transceiver 75is required for media interfacing. 76.Pp 77Multiport adapters consist of several AIC-6915 controllers connected 78via a PCI to PCI bridge. 79Each controller is treated as a separate 80interface by the 81.Nm 82driver. 83.Pp 84The 85.Nm 86driver supports the following media types: 87.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 88.It autoselect 89Enable autoselection of the media type and options. 90The user can manually override 91the autoselected mode by adding media options to the 92.Pa /etc/rc.conf 93file. 94.It 10baseT/UTP 95Set 10Mbps operation. 96The 97.Ar mediaopt 98option can also be used to select either 99.Ar full-duplex 100or 101.Ar half-duplex 102modes. 103.It 100baseTX 104Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation. 105The 106.Ar mediaopt 107option can also be used to select either 108.Ar full-duplex 109or 110.Ar half-duplex 111modes. 112.El 113.Pp 114The 115.Nm 116driver supports the following media options: 117.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 118.It full-duplex 119Force full duplex operation 120.It half-duplex 121Force half duplex operation. 122.El 123.Pp 124For more information on configuring this device, see 125.Xr ifconfig 8 . 126.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 127.Bl -diag 128.It "sf%d: couldn't map memory" 129A fatal initialization error has occurred. 130This may 131happen if the PCI BIOS not configured the device, which may be because 132the BIOS has been configured for a "Plug and Play" operating system. 133The "Plug and Play OS" setting int he BIOS should be set to "no" or 134"off" in order for PCI devices to work properly with 135.Dx . 136.It "sf%d: couldn't map ports" 137A fatal initialization error has occurred. 138This may 139happen if the PCI BIOS not configured the device, which may be because 140the BIOS has been configured for a "Plug and Play" operating system. 141The "Plug and Play OS" setting int he BIOS should be set to "no" or 142"off" in order for PCI devices to work properly with 143.Dx . 144.It "sf%d: couldn't map interrupt" 145A fatal initialization error has occurred. 146.It "sf%d: no memory for softc struct!" 147The driver failed to allocate memory for per-device instance information 148during initialization. 149.It "sf%d: failed to enable I/O ports/memory mapping!" 150The driver failed to initialize PCI I/O port or shared memory access. 151This might happen if the card is not in a bus-master slot. 152.It "sf%d: watchdog timeout" 153The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with 154the network connection (cable). 155.El 156.Sh SEE ALSO 157.Xr arp 4 , 158.Xr ifmedia 4 , 159.Xr miibus 4 , 160.Xr netintro 4 , 161.Xr ng_ether 4 , 162.Xr ifconfig 8 163.Rs 164.%T The Adaptec AIC-6915 Programmer's Manual 165.%U ftp://ftp.adaptec.com/pub/BBS/userguides/aic6915_pg.pdf 166.Re 167.Sh HISTORY 168The 169.Nm 170device driver first appeared in 171.Fx 3.0 . 172.Sh AUTHORS 173The 174.Nm 175driver was written by 176.An Bill Paul Aq Mt wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu . 177