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.\" $FreeBSD$ 10.\" 11.Dd January 15, 2011 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 ifmedia interface. 38A generic driver has been included for all PHYs that are not 39handled by a specific driver, this is possible because all 4010/100 PHYs implement the same general register set along with 41their vendor specific register set. 42.Pp 43The following network device drivers use the 44.Nm 45interface: 46.Pp 47.Bl -tag -compact -width ".Xr fxp 4" 48.It Xr ae 4 49Attansic/Atheros L2 Fast Ethernet 50.It Xr age 4 51Attansic/Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet 52.It Xr alc 4 53Atheros AR8131/AR8132 PCIe Ethernet 54.It Xr ale 4 55Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCIe Ethernet 56.It Xr aue 4 57ADMtek USB Ethernet 58.It Xr axe 4 59ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB Ethernet 60.It Xr bce 4 61Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet 62.It Xr bfe 4 63Broadcom BCM4401 Ethernet 64.It Xr bge 4 65Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet 66.It Xr cas 4 67Sun Cassini/Cassini+ and National Semiconductor DP83065 Saturn 68.It Xr dc 4 69DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes 70.It Xr ed 4 71NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390 cards 72.It Xr et 4 73Agere ET1310 Gigabit Ethernet 74.It Xr fxp 4 75Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B 76.It Xr gem 4 77Sun ERI, Sun GEM and Apple GMAC Ethernet 78.It Xr hme 4 79Sun HME Ethernet 80.It Xr jme 4 81JMicron JMC250 Gigabit/JMC260 Fast Ethernet 82.It Xr lge 4 83Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator Gigabit Ethernet 84.It Xr msk 4 85Marvell/SysKonnect Yukon II Gigabit Ethernet 86.It Xr nfe 4 87NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter 88.It Xr nge 4 89National Semiconductor DP83820/DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet 90.It Xr nve 4 91NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter 92.It Xr pcn 4 93AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100 94.It Xr re 4 95RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S 96.It Xr rl 4 97RealTek 8129/8139 98.It Xr rue 4 99RealTek RTL8150 USB To Fast Ethernet 100.It Xr sf 4 101Adaptec AIC-6915 102.It Xr sge 4 103Silicon Integrated Systems SiS190/191 Ethernet 104.It Xr sis 4 105Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016 106.It Xr sk 4 107SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x Gigabit Ethernet 108.It Xr ste 4 109Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX) 110.It Xr stge 4 111Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet 112.It Xr tl 4 113Texas Instruments ThunderLAN 114.It Xr tx 4 115SMC EtherPower II (83c170) 116.It Xr udav 4 117Davicom DM9601 USB Ethernet 118.It Xr vge 4 119VIA VT612x PCI Gigabit Ethernet 120.It Xr vr 4 121VIA Rhine, Rhine II 122.It Xr vte 4 123DM&P Vortex86 RDC R6040 Fast Ethernet 124.It Xr wb 4 125Winbond W89C840F 126.It Xr xl 4 1273Com 3c90x 128.El 129.Sh COMPATIBILITY 130The implementation of 131.Nm 132was originally intended to have similar API interfaces 133to 134.Bsx 3.0 135and 136.Nx , 137but as a result are not well behaved newbus device drivers. 138.Sh SEE ALSO 139.Xr ae 4 , 140.Xr age 4 , 141.Xr alc 4 , 142.Xr ale 4 , 143.Xr arp 4 , 144.Xr aue 4 , 145.Xr axe 4 , 146.Xr bce 4 , 147.Xr bfe 4 , 148.Xr bge 4 , 149.Xr cas 4 , 150.Xr dc 4 , 151.Xr ed 4 , 152.Xr et 4 , 153.Xr fxp 4 , 154.Xr gem 4 , 155.Xr hme 4 , 156.Xr jme 4 , 157.Xr lge 4 , 158.Xr msk 4 , 159.Xr netintro 4 , 160.Xr nfe 4 , 161.Xr nge 4 , 162.Xr nve 4 , 163.Xr pcn 4 , 164.Xr re 4 , 165.Xr rgephy 4 , 166.Xr rl 4 , 167.Xr rue 4 , 168.Xr sf 4 , 169.Xr sge 4 , 170.Xr sis 4 , 171.Xr sk 4 , 172.Xr ste 4 , 173.Xr stge 4 , 174.Xr tl 4 , 175.Xr tx 4 , 176.Xr udav 4 , 177.Xr vge 4 , 178.Xr vr 4 , 179.Xr vte 4 , 180.Xr wb 4 , 181.Xr xl 4 182.Sh STANDARDS 183More information on MII can be found in the IEEE 802.3 Standard. 184.Sh HISTORY 185The 186.Nm 187driver first appeared in 188.Fx 3.3 . 189.Sh AUTHORS 190This manual page was written by 191.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org . 192