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28.Dd February 8, 2001
29.Dt TX 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm tx
33.Nd "SMC 83c17x Fast Ethernet device driver"
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd "device miibus"
36.Cd "device tx"
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The
39.Nm
40driver provides support for the Ethernet adapters based on the
41SMC 83c17x (EPIC) chips.
42These are mostly SMC 9432 series cards.
43.Pp
44The
45.Nm
46driver supports the following media types (depending on card's capabilities):
47.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
48.It autoselect
49Enable autonegotiation (default)
50.It 100baseFX
51Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) fiber optic operation
52.It 100baseTX
53Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) twisted pair operation
54.It 10baseT/UTP
55Set 10Mbps on 10baseT port
56.It 10base2/BNC
57Set 10Mbps on 10base2 port
58.El
59.Pp
60The
61.Nm
62driver supports the following media options:
63.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
64.It full-duplex
65Set full-duplex operation
66.El
67.Pp
68Driver supports oversized ethernet packets (up to 1600 bytes).
69Refer to the
70.Xr ifconfig 8
71man page on setting the interface's MTU.
72.Pp
73The old
74.Dq ifconfig tx0 linkN
75method of configuration is not supported.
76.Ss "VLAN (IEEE 802.1Q) support"
77The
78.Nm
79driver supports the VLAN operation (using the
80.Xr vlan 4
81interface) without decreasing the MTU on the
82.Xr vlan 4
83interfaces.
84.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
85.Bl -diag
86.It "tx%d: device timeout %d packets"
87The device stops responding.
88Device and driver reset follows this error.
89.It "tx%d: PCI fatal error occurred (%s)"
90One of following errors occurred: PCI Target Abort, PCI Master Abort, Data
91Parity Error or Address Parity Error.
92Device and driver reset follows this error.
93.It "tx%d: cannot allocate mbuf header/cluster"
94Cannot allocate memory for received packet.
95Packet thrown away.
96.It "tx%d: can't stop %s DMA"
97While reseting, driver failed to stop device correctly.
98.El
99.Sh SEE ALSO
100.Xr arp 4 ,
101.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
102.Xr miibus 4 ,
103.Xr netintro 4 ,
104.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
105.Xr ifconfig 8
106.Sh BUGS
107The multicast packets filtering is not supported.
108