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