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36.Dd June 10, 2003
37.Dt GEM 4
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm gem
41.Nd ERI/GEM/GMAC Ethernet device driver
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Cd "device miibus"
44.Cd "device gem"
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48driver provides support for the GMac Ethernet hardware found mostly in
49the last Apple PowerBooks G3s and most G4-based Apple hardware, as
50well as many Sun UltraSPARCs.
51.Pp
52Cards supported by this driver include:
53.Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent
54.It
55Sun GEM gigabit ethernet
56.It
57Sun ERI 10/100 Mbps ethernet
58.It
59Apple GMAC
60.El
61.Sh SEE ALSO
62.Xr hme 4 ,
63.Xr miibus 4 ,
64.Xr netintro 4 ,
65.Xr ifconfig 8
66.Sh HISTORY
67The
68.Nm
69device driver appeared in
70.Nx 1.6 .
71The first
72.Fx
73version to include it was
74.Fx 5.0 .
75.Sh AUTHORS
76.An -nosplit
77The
78.Nm
79driver was written by
80.An Eduardo Horvath
81.Aq eeh@NetBSD.org .
82The man page was written by
83.An Thomas Klausner
84.Aq wiz@NetBSD.org .
85