1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Stuart Walsh 3.\" 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE DEVELOPERS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 17.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 18.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE DEVELOPERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 19.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 20.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 21.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 22.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 23.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 24.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" 26.\" $FreeBSD$ 27.\" 28.Dd July 16, 2005 29.Dt BFE 4 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm bfe 33.Nd "Broadcom BCM4401 Ethernet Device Driver" 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35To compile this driver into the kernel, 36place the following lines in your 37kernel configuration file: 38.Bd -ragged -offset indent 39.Cd "device miibus" 40.Cd "device bfe" 41.Ed 42.Pp 43Alternatively, to load the driver as a 44module at boot time, place the following line in 45.Xr loader.conf 5 : 46.Bd -literal -offset indent 47if_bfe_load="YES" 48.Ed 49.Sh DESCRIPTION 50The 51.Nm 52driver provides support for Broadcom BCM4401 based Fast Ethernet adapters. 53.Pp 54The 55.Nm 56driver supports the following media types: 57.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP" 58.It Cm autoselect 59Enable autoselection of the media type and options. 60.It Cm 10baseT/UTP 61Set 10Mbps operation. 62.It Cm 100baseTX 63Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. 64.El 65.Pp 66The 67.Nm 68driver supports the following media options: 69.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex" 70.It Cm full-duplex 71Set full duplex operation. 72.El 73.Pp 74For further information on configuring this device, see 75.Xr ifconfig 8 . 76.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 77.Bl -diag 78.It "bfe%d: couldn't map memory" 79A fatal initialization error has occurred. 80.It "bfe%d: couldn't map interrupt" 81A fatal initialization error has occurred. 82.It "bfe%d: failed to allocate DMA resources" 83There are not enough mbufs available for allocation. 84.It "bfe%d: watchdog timeout -- resetting" 85The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with 86the network connection (cable). 87.El 88.Sh SEE ALSO 89.Xr altq 4 , 90.Xr arp 4 , 91.Xr miibus 4 , 92.Xr netintro 4 , 93.Xr ng_ether 4 , 94.Xr ifconfig 8 95.Sh HISTORY 96The 97.Nm 98device driver first appeared in 99.Fx 5.1 . 100.Sh AUTHORS 101.An -nosplit 102The 103.Nm 104device driver was written by 105.An Stuart Walsh 106and 107.An Duncan Barclay . 108This manual page was written by 109.An Stuart Walsh . 110