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IN NO EVENT SHALL Bill Paul OR THE VOICES IN HIS HEAD 24.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 25.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 26.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 27.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 28.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 29.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF 30.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" $FreeBSD$ 33.\" 34.Dd September 23, 2006 35.Dt BGE 4 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm bge 39.Nd "Broadcom BCM570x/5714/5721/5750/5751/5752/5789 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver" 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41To compile this driver into the kernel, 42place the following lines in your 43kernel configuration file: 44.Bd -ragged -offset indent 45.Cd "device miibus" 46.Cd "device bge" 47.Ed 48.Pp 49Alternatively, to load the driver as a 50module at boot time, place the following line in 51.Xr loader.conf 5 : 52.Bd -literal -offset indent 53if_bge_load="YES" 54.Ed 55.Sh DESCRIPTION 56The 57.Nm 58driver provides support for various NICs based on the Broadcom BCM570x, 595714, 5721, 5750, 5751, 5752 and 5789 families of Gigabit Ethernet 60controller chips. 61.Pp 62All of these NICs are capable of 10, 100 and 1000Mbps speeds over CAT5 63copper cable, except for the SysKonnect SK-9D41 which supports only 641000Mbps over multimode fiber. 65The BCM570x builds upon the technology of the Alteon Tigon II. 66It has two R4000 CPU cores and is PCI v2.2 and PCI-X v1.0 compliant. 67It supports IP, TCP 68and UDP checksum offload for both receive and transmit, 69multiple RX and TX DMA rings for QoS applications, rules-based 70receive filtering, and VLAN tag stripping/insertion as well as 71a 256-bit multicast hash filter. 72Additional features may be 73provided via value-add firmware updates. 74The BCM570x supports TBI (ten bit interface) and GMII 75transceivers, which means it can be used with either copper or 1000baseX 76fiber applications. 77Note however the device only supports a single 78speed in TBI mode. 79.Pp 80Most BCM5700-based cards also use the Broadcom BCM5401 or BCM5411 10/100/1000 81copper gigabit transceivers, 82which support autonegotiation of 10, 100 and 1000Mbps modes in 83full or half duplex. 84.Pp 85The BCM5700, BCM5701, BCM5703, BCM5704, BCM5714 and BCM5780 also support 86jumbo frames, which can be configured 87via the interface MTU setting. 88Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the 89.Xr ifconfig 8 90utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit jumbo frames. 91Using jumbo frames can greatly improve performance for certain tasks, 92such as file transfers and data streaming. 93.Pp 94The 95.Nm 96driver supports the following media types: 97.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP" 98.It Cm autoselect 99Enable autoselection of the media type and options. 100The user can manually override 101the autoselected mode by adding media options to 102.Xr rc.conf 5 . 103.It Cm 10baseT/UTP 104Set 10Mbps operation. 105The 106.Xr ifconfig 8 107.Ic mediaopt 108option can also be used to select either 109.Cm full-duplex 110or 111.Cm half-duplex 112modes. 113.It Cm 100baseTX 114Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. 115The 116.Xr ifconfig 8 117.Ic mediaopt 118option can also be used to select either 119.Cm full-duplex 120or 121.Cm half-duplex 122modes. 123.It Cm 1000baseTX 124Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair. 125Only 126.Cm full-duplex 127mode is supported. 128.It Cm 1000baseSX 129Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation. 130Both 131.Cm full-duplex 132and 133.Cm half-duplex 134modes are supported. 135.El 136.Pp 137The 138.Nm 139driver supports the following media options: 140.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex" 141.It Cm full-duplex 142Force full duplex operation. 143.It Cm half-duplex 144Force half duplex operation. 145.El 146.Pp 147The 148.Nm 149driver also supports one special link option for 1000baseTX cards: 150.Bl -tag -width ".Cm link0" 151.It Cm link0 152With 1000baseTX cards, establishing a link between two ports requires 153that one port be configured as a master and the other a slave. 154With autonegotiation, 155the master/slave settings will be chosen automatically. 156However when manually selecting the link state, it is necessary to 157force one side of the link to be a master and the other a slave. 158The 159.Nm 160driver configures the ports as slaves by default. 161Setting the 162.Cm link0 163flag with 164.Xr ifconfig 8 165will set a port as a master instead. 166.El 167.Pp 168For more information on configuring this device, see 169.Xr ifconfig 8 . 170.Sh HARDWARE 171The 172.Nm 173driver provides support for various NICs based on the Broadcom BCM570x 174family of Gigabit Ethernet controller chips, including the 175following: 176.Pp 177.Bl -bullet -compact 178.It 1793Com 3c996-T (10/100/1000baseTX) 180.It 181Dell PowerEdge 1750 integrated BCM5704C NIC (10/100/1000baseTX) 182.It 183Dell PowerEdge 2550 integrated BCM5700 NIC (10/100/1000baseTX) 184.It 185Dell PowerEdge 2650 integrated BCM5703 NIC (10/100/1000baseTX) 186.It 187IBM x235 server integrated BCM5703x NIC (10/100/1000baseTX) 188.It 189HP Compaq dc7600 integrated BCM5752 NIC (10/100/1000baseTX) 190.It 191HP ProLiant NC7760 embedded Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseTX) 192.It 193HP ProLiant NC7770 PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseTX) 194.It 195HP ProLiant NC7771 PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseTX) 196.It 197HP ProLiant NC7781 embedded PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseTX) 198.It 199Netgear GA302T (10/100/1000baseTX) 200.It 201SysKonnect SK-9D21 (10/100/1000baseTX) 202.It 203SysKonnect SK-9D41 (1000baseSX) 204.El 205.Sh LOADER TUNABLES 206Tunables can be set at the 207.Xr loader 8 208prompt before booting the kernel, or stored in 209.Xr loader.conf 5 . 210.Bl -tag -width indent 211.It Va hw.bge.fake_autoneg 212Set to 1 for special handling of the BCM5704 HW. 213Disabled by default. 214.It Va hw.bge.allow_asf 215Allow the ASF feature for cooperating with IPMI. 216Can cause system lockup problems on a small number of systems. 217Enabled by default. 218.El 219.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 220.Bl -diag 221.It "bge%d: couldn't map memory" 222A fatal initialization error has occurred. 223.It "bge%d: couldn't map ports" 224A fatal initialization error has occurred. 225.It "bge%d: couldn't map interrupt" 226A fatal initialization error has occurred. 227.It "bge%d: no memory for softc struct!" 228The driver failed to allocate memory for per-device instance information 229during initialization. 230.It "bge%d: failed to enable memory mapping!" 231The driver failed to initialize PCI shared memory mapping. 232This might 233happen if the card is not in a bus-master slot. 234.It "bge%d: no memory for jumbo buffers!" 235The driver failed to allocate memory for jumbo frames during 236initialization. 237.It "bge%d: watchdog timeout" 238The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with 239the network connection (cable). 240.El 241.Sh SEE ALSO 242.Xr arp 4 , 243.Xr miibus 4 , 244.Xr netintro 4 , 245.Xr ng_ether 4 , 246.Xr polling 4 , 247.Xr vlan 4 , 248.Xr ifconfig 8 249.Sh HISTORY 250The 251.Nm 252device driver first appeared in 253.Fx 4.5 . 254.Sh AUTHORS 255The 256.Nm 257driver was written by 258.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@windriver.com . 259