1.\" $NetBSD: xi.4,v 1.13 2009/05/13 12:41:09 wiz Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 2000 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation 7.\" by Gregory McGarry. 8.\" 9.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 10.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 11.\" are met: 12.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 14.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 15.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 16.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS 19.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED 20.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 21.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS 22.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 23.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 24.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 25.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 26.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 27.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 28.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.Dd June 1, 2007 31.Dt XI 4 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm xi 35.Nd Xircom CreditCard Ethernet device driver 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.Cd "xi* at xirc?" 38.Pp 39Configuration of PHYs may also be necessary. 40See 41.Xr mii 4 . 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43The 44.Nm 45driver provides support for the Xircom CreditCard family of PCMCIA 46Ethernet adapters. 47Supported cards include: 48.Pp 49.Bl -item -compact -offset indent 50.It 51Xircom CreditCard Ethernet II 52.It 53Xircom CreditCard 10/100 Ethernet 54.\" .It Xircom CreditCard Ethernet + Modem 55.\" .It Xircom CreditCard 10/100 Ethernet + Modem 56.It 57Xircom RealPort 10/100 Ethernet + Modem (Ethernet function only) 58.It 59Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 60.It 61Compaq Netelligent 10/100 62.El 63.Pp 64Cards which should work, but have not been confirmed include: 65.Pp 66.Bl -item -compact -offset indent 67.It 68Xircom RealPort Ethernet 69.It 70Xircom RealPort 10/100 Ethernet 71.El 72.Pp 73Some Xircom Ethernet products are supported by the 74.Xr tlp 4 75driver. 76.Sh MEDIA SELECTION 77Media selection is done using 78.Xr ifconfig 8 79using the standard 80.Xr ifmedia 4 81mechanism. 82Refer to those manual pages for more information. 83.Sh SEE ALSO 84.Xr ifmedia 4 , 85.Xr mii 4 , 86.Xr netintro 4 , 87.Xr pcmcia 4 , 88.Xr tlp 4 , 89.Xr xirc 4 , 90.Xr ifconfig 8 91.Sh HISTORY 92The 93.Nm 94device driver appeared in 95.Nx 1.5 . 96.Sh BUGS 97The driver suffers from poor performance. 98Even with the 10/100 cards, do not expect more than ~450KB/s. 99Some 10/100 cards may not autonegotiate 100reliably and require manual media selection. 101.Pp 102The Xircom multifunction cards which contain both Ethernet and modem 103interfaces are known to have problems. 104This is due to the card not 105reporting itself correctly as a multifunction card. 106