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36.Dd $Mdocdate: November 21 2015 $
37.Dt LE 4 sparc64
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm le ,
41.Nm ledma ,
42.Nm lebuffer
43.Nd AMD LANCE Ethernet device
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.Cd "ledma* at sbus?          " Pq onboard
46.Cd "le* at ledma*            " Pq onboard
47.Cd "le* at sbus?             " Pq SBus
48.Cd "lebuffer* at sbus?       " Pq SBus
49.Cd "le* at lebuffer?         " Pq SBus
50.Sh DESCRIPTION
51The
52.Nm
53interface provides access to the 10 Mb/s
54.Tn Ethernet
55network via the
56.Tn AMD
57Am7990
58Local Area Network Controller for Ethernet
59.Pq Tn LANCE
60chip set.
61.Pp
62Different cards and machines have different kinds of connectors,
63as follows:
64.Bl -tag -width "media autoselect"
65.It AUI/DIX
66Standard 15 pin connector
67.It 10BaseT
68UTP, also known as twisted pair
69.El
70.Pp
71By default, the system will select the media type automatically, but the
72.Xr ifconfig 8
73command can be used to force the media selection.
74The media types are shown below:
75.Bl -tag -width "media autoselect"
76.It media autoselect
77Attempt to autoselect the media type (default)
78.It media 10base5
79Use the AUI connector
80.It media 10baseT
81Use the twisted pair connector
82.El
83.Sh NOTES
84Some SBus models, in particular the 501-1450 and 501-1881, have dip
85switches which must be changed to select between the BNC and AUI modes.
86For BNC, set 1-6 ON, 7-8 OFF; for AUI set 1-6 OFF, and 7-8 ON.
87.Sh SEE ALSO
88.Xr arp 4 ,
89.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
90.Xr inet 4 ,
91.Xr intro 4 ,
92.Xr netintro 4 ,
93.Xr sbus 4 ,
94.Xr hostname.if 5 ,
95.Xr ifconfig 8
96.Sh HISTORY
97.Ox
98support for the
99.Nm
100first appeared in
101.Ox 3.0 .
102