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18.Dd November 14, 2007
19.Dt NFE 4
20.Os
21.Sh NAME
22.Nm nfe
23.Nd NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet driver
24.Sh SYNOPSIS
25.Cd "nfe* at pci?"
26.Cd "ciphy* at mii?"
27.Cd "icsphy* at mii?"
28.Cd "makphy* at mii?"
29.Cd "rlphy* at mii?"
30.Sh DESCRIPTION
31The
32.Nm
33driver supports PCI Ethernet adapters based on the NVIDIA
34nForce Media and Communications Processors (MCP), such as
35the nForce, nForce 2, nForce 3, CK804, MCP04, MCP51, MCP55,
36MCP61, MCP65, MCP67 and MCP73 Ethernet controller chips.
37.Pp
38The
39.Nm
40driver supports the following
41.Ar media
42types:
43.Pp
44.Bl -tag -width autoselect -compact
45.It Cm autoselect
46Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
47.It Cm 10baseT
48Set 10Mbps operation.
49.It Cm 100baseTX
50Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
51.It Cm 1000baseT
52Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation (recent models only).
53.El
54.Sh SEE ALSO
55.Xr arp 4 ,
56.Xr ciphy 4 ,
57.\" .Xr eephy 4 ,
58.Xr icsphy 4 ,
59.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
60.Xr intro 4 ,
61.Xr netintro 4 ,
62.Xr pci 4 ,
63.Xr rlphy 4 ,
64.\" .Xr hostname.if 5 ,
65.Xr ifconfig 8
66.Sh HISTORY
67The
68.Nm
69device driver first appeared in
70.Ox 3.9 .
71It was added to
72.Nx 3.1 .
73.Sh AUTHORS
74.An -nosplit
75The
76.Nm
77driver was written by
78.An Jonathan Gray
79.Aq jsg@openbsd.org
80and
81.An Damien Bergamini
82.Aq damien@openbsd.org .
83.Sh CAVEATS
84NVIDIA refuse to release any documentation on their products.
85