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IN NO EVENT SHALL Bill Paul OR THE VOICES IN HIS HEAD 25.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 26.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 27.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 28.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 29.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 30.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF 31.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 32.\" 33.\" $FreeBSD: wb.4,v 1.2 1998/12/05 09:31:25 rnordier Exp $ 34.\" 35.Dd $Mdocdate: July 16 2013 $ 36.Dt WB 4 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm wb 40.Nd Winbond W89C840F 10/100 Ethernet device 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Cd "wb* at pci?" 43.Cd "amphy* at mii?" 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45The 46.Nm 47driver provides support for PCI Ethernet adapters and embedded 48controllers based on the Winbond W89C840F Fast Ethernet controller chip. 49This includes the TRENDnet TE100-PCIE and various other cheap boards. 50The 840F should not be confused with the 940F, which is 51an NE2000 clone and only supports 10Mbps speeds. 52.Pp 53The Winbond controller uses bus master DMA and is designed to be 54a DEC "tulip" work-alike. 55It differs from the standard DEC design 56in several ways: the control and status registers are spaced 4 57bytes apart instead of 8, and the receive filter is programmed through 58registers rather than by downloading a special setup frame via 59the transmit DMA engine. 60Using an external PHY, the Winbond chip 61supports both 10 and 100Mbps speeds in either full or half duplex. 62.Pp 63The 64.Nm 65driver supports the following media types: 66.Bl -tag -width full-duplex 67.It autoselect 68Enable autoselection of the media type and options. 69This is only supported if the PHY chip attached to the Winbond controller 70supports NWAY autonegotiation. 71The user can manually override 72the autoselected mode by adding media options to the appropriate 73.Xr hostname.if 5 74file. 75.It 10baseT 76Set 10Mbps operation. 77The 78.Ar mediaopt 79option can also be used to select either 80.Ar full-duplex 81or 82.Ar half-duplex 83modes. 84.It 100baseTX 85Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. 86The 87.Ar mediaopt 88option can also be used to select either 89.Ar full-duplex 90or 91.Ar half-duplex 92modes. 93.El 94.Pp 95The 96.Nm 97driver supports the following media options: 98.Bl -tag -width full-duplex 99.It full-duplex 100Force full duplex operation. 101.It half-duplex 102Force half duplex operation. 103.El 104.Pp 105Note that the 100baseTX media type is only available if supported 106by the adapter. 107For more information on configuring this device, see 108.Xr ifconfig 8 . 109.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 110.Bl -diag 111.It "wb0: couldn't map memory" 112A fatal initialization error has occurred. 113.It "wb0: couldn't map interrupt" 114A fatal initialization error has occurred. 115.It "wb0: watchdog timeout" 116The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with 117the network connection (cable). 118.It "wb0: no memory for rx list" 119The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring. 120.It "wb0: no memory for tx list" 121The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the transmitter ring when 122allocating a pad buffer or collapsing an mbuf chain into a cluster. 123.El 124.Sh SEE ALSO 125.Xr amphy 4 , 126.Xr arp 4 , 127.Xr ifmedia 4 , 128.Xr intro 4 , 129.Xr netintro 4 , 130.Xr pci 4 , 131.Xr hostname.if 5 , 132.Xr ifconfig 8 133.Sh HISTORY 134The 135.Nm 136device driver first appeared in 137.Fx 3.0 . 138.Ox 139support first appeared in 140.Ox 2.5 . 141.Sh AUTHORS 142The 143.Nm 144driver was written by 145.An Bill Paul Aq Mt wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu . 146.Sh BUGS 147The Winbond chip seems to behave strangely in some cases when the 148link partner switches modes. 149If, for example, both sides are set to 10Mbps half-duplex, and the other end 150is changed to 100Mbps full-duplex, the Winbond's receiver suddenly starts 151writing trash all over the RX descriptors. 152The 153.Nm 154driver handles this by forcing a reset of both the controller 155chip and attached PHY. 156This is drastic, but it appears to be the only way to recover properly from 157this condition. 158