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17.Dd $Mdocdate: September 8 2021 $
18.Dt NFE 4
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm nfe
22.Nd NVIDIA nForce MCP 10/100/1Gb Ethernet device
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Cd "nfe* at pci?"
25.Cd "atphy* at mii?"
26.Cd "brgphy* at mii?"
27.Cd "ciphy* at mii?"
28.Cd "eephy* at mii?"
29.Cd "icsphy* at mii?"
30.Cd "rgephy* at mii?"
31.Cd "rlphy* at mii?"
32.Sh DESCRIPTION
33The
34.Nm
35driver supports Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet adapters based
36on the NVIDIA nForce Media and Communications Processors (MCP),
37the nForce, nForce 2, nForce 3, CK804, MCP04, MCP51, MCP55,
38MCP61, MCP65, MCP67, MCP73, MCP77, MCP79 and MCP89 Ethernet
39controller chips.
40.Pp
41The
42.Nm
43driver supports IPv4 transmit/receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload
44with the nForce 3, CK804, MCP55, MCP77, MCP79 and MCP89 chipsets
45and VLAN tag insertion and stripping with the MCP55 chipset.
46.Pp
47The
48.Nm
49driver additionally supports Wake on LAN (WoL).
50See
51.Xr arp 8
52and
53.Xr ifconfig 8
54for more details.
55.Pp
56The
57.Nm
58driver supports the following
59.Ar media
60types:
61.Pp
62.Bl -tag -width autoselect -compact
63.It Cm autoselect
64Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
65.It Cm 10baseT
66Set 10Mbps operation.
67.It Cm 100baseTX
68Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
69.It Cm 1000baseT
70Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation (recent models only).
71.El
72.Sh SEE ALSO
73.Xr arp 4 ,
74.Xr atphy 4 ,
75.Xr brgphy 4 ,
76.Xr ciphy 4 ,
77.Xr eephy 4 ,
78.Xr icsphy 4 ,
79.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
80.Xr intro 4 ,
81.Xr netintro 4 ,
82.Xr pci 4 ,
83.Xr rgephy 4 ,
84.Xr rlphy 4 ,
85.Xr hostname.if 5 ,
86.Xr ifconfig 8
87.Sh HISTORY
88The
89.Nm
90device driver first appeared in
91.Ox 3.9 .
92.Sh AUTHORS
93.An -nosplit
94The
95.Nm
96driver was written by
97.An Jonathan Gray Aq Mt jsg@openbsd.org
98and
99.An Damien Bergamini Aq Mt damien.bergamini@free.fr .
100.Sh CAVEATS
101NVIDIA refuse to release any documentation on their products.
102