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35.Dd $Mdocdate: February 17 2022 $
36.Dt NGE 4
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm nge
40.Nd National Semiconductor PCI 10/100/1Gb Ethernet device
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Cd "nge* at pci?"
43.Cd "nsgphy* at mii?"
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45The
46.Nm
47driver provides support for various NICs based on the National Semiconductor
48DP83820 and DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet controller chips, including the
49following:
50.Pp
51.Bl -bullet -compact
52.It
53Addtron AEG320T
54.It
55Ark PC SOHO-GA2500T (32-bit PCI) and SOHO-GA2000T (64-bit PCI)
56.It
57Asante FriendlyNet GigaNIX 1000TA and 1000TPC
58.It
59D-Link DGE-500T
60.It
61Linksys EG1032v1 (32-bit PCI) and EG1064v1 (64-bit PCI)
62.It
63Netgear GA621
64.It
65Netgear GA622T
66.It
67SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX)
68.It
69Surecom Technology EP-320G-TX
70.It
71TRENDnet TEG-PCITX (32-bit PCI) and TEG-PCITX2 (64-bit PCI)
72.El
73.Pp
74The
75.Nm
76driver supports IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload, VLAN tag
77insertion and stripping, as well as a 2048-bit multicast hash filter
78and up to 4 pattern match buffers.
79.Pp
80The
81.Nm
82driver also supports jumbo frames.
83.Pp
84The
85.Nm
86driver supports the following media types:
87.Bl -tag -width full-duplex
88.It Cm autoselect
89Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
90The user can manually override
91the autoselected mode by adding media options to the appropriate
92.Xr hostname.if 5
93file.
94.It Cm 10baseT
95Set 10Mbps operation.
96The
97.Xr ifconfig 8
98.Ic mediaopt
99option can also be used to select either
100.Cm full-duplex
101or
102.Cm half-duplex
103modes.
104.It Cm 100baseTX
105Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
106The
107.Xr ifconfig 8
108.Ic mediaopt
109option can also be used to select either
110.Cm full-duplex
111or
112.Cm half-duplex
113modes.
114.It Cm 1000baseT
115Set 1000baseT operation over twisted pair.
116Both
117.Cm full-duplex
118and
119.Cm half-duplex
120modes are supported.
121.It Cm 1000baseSX
122Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
123Both
124.Cm full-duplex
125and
126.Cm half-duplex
127modes are supported.
128.El
129.Pp
130The
131.Nm
132driver supports the following media options:
133.Bl -tag -width full-duplex
134.It Cm full-duplex
135Force full duplex operation.
136.It Cm half-duplex
137Force half duplex operation.
138.El
139.Pp
140For more information on configuring this device, see
141.Xr ifconfig 8 .
142.Sh SEE ALSO
143.Xr arp 4 ,
144.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
145.Xr intro 4 ,
146.Xr netintro 4 ,
147.Xr nsgphy 4 ,
148.Xr pci 4 ,
149.Xr hostname.if 5 ,
150.Xr ifconfig 8
151.Rs
152.%T National Semiconductor DP83820 datasheet
153.Re
154.Rs
155.%T National Semiconductor DP83861 datasheet
156.Re
157.Sh HISTORY
158The
159.Nm
160device driver first appeared in
161.Ox 3.0 .
162.Sh AUTHORS
163The
164.Nm
165driver was written by
166.An Bill Paul Aq Mt wpaul@bsdi.com .
167