1.\" $NetBSD: tl.4,v 1.21 2009/10/19 18:41:09 bouyer Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Manuel Bouyer 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 17.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 18.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 19.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 20.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 21.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 22.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 23.\" INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 24.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" 26.Dd May 16, 2009 27.Dt TL 4 28.Os 29.Sh NAME 30.Nm tl 31.Nd Ethernet driver for Texas Instruments ThunderLAN based board 32.Sh SYNOPSIS 33.Cd "tl* at pci? dev ? function ?" 34.Pp 35Configuration of PHYs is necessary. 36See 37.Xr mii 4 . 38.Sh DESCRIPTION 39The 40.Nm tl 41device driver supports network adapters based on 42the Texas Instruments ThunderLAN chip. 43.Sh HARDWARE 44Supported cards include: 45.Pp 46.Bl -tag -width xxxxxx -offset indent 47.It Compaq Netelligent 48in baseboard and 49.Tn PCI 50variants (10BASE-T-only variant untested). 51.It Compaq NetFlex 3/P 52in baseboard variant only (the 53.Tn PCI 54variant doesn't use the same chip!). 55.It \&It Baseboard Compaq Deskpro 4000 5233MMX Ethernet 56(This has been tested on the Deskpro 4000M only). 57.It TI TravelMate 5000 series laptop docking station's Ethernet board . 58.El 59.Sh MEDIA SELECTION 60The different models of the supported boards come with some subset of RJ-45, 61BNC and AUI connectors. 62Media selection is done using 63.Xr ifconfig 8 64using the standard 65.Xr ifmedia 4 66mechanism. 67Refer to those manual pages for more information. 68.Pp 69The 70.Nm 71driver doesn't have full automatic media selection. 72By default it will do an Nway 73.Pq Tn IEEE 802.3u 74negotiation on the 10BASE-T port for the speed and duplex mode with the 75link partner. 76If the AUI or BNC port is used, an explicit media type must be 77specified to 78.Xr ifconfig 8 . 79.\" .in -4 80.Sh SEE ALSO 81.Xr ifmedia 4 , 82.Xr mii 4 , 83.Xr netintro 4 , 84.Xr pci 4 , 85.Xr ifconfig 8 86.Sh BUGS 87The board marked as untested will always claim having an AUI connector, where 88it may be a BNC one. 89