1.\" Written by Tom Rhodes for the FreeBSD Project. 2.\" Please see the /usr/src/COPYRIGHT file for copyright information. 3.\" 4.\" This document takes information from the IEEE 802.3 Standard 5.\" along with various comments from Peter Wemm, Robert Watson, and Bill Paul. 6.\" Originally this file looked much like the NetBSD mii(4) manual page, but 7.\" I doubt you would ever notice due to large differences. 8.\" 9.\" $FreeBSD$ 10.\" 11.Dd February 15, 2003 12.Dt MIIBUS 4 13.Os 14.Sh NAME 15.Nm miibus 16.Nd IEEE 802.3 Media Independent Interface network bus 17.Sh SYNOPSIS 18For most network interface cards (NIC): 19.Cd "device miibus" 20.Sh DESCRIPTION 21The 22.Nm 23driver provides an interconnection between the Media Access Control (MAC) 24sublayer, the Physical Layer entities (PHY), Station Management (STA) 25entities, and the PHY Layer as defined by the IEEE 802.3 Standard. 26.Pp 27The 28.Nm 29layer allows network device drivers to share common support 30code for various external PHY devices. 31Most 10/100 network interface cards either use an MII transceiver 32or have built-in transceivers that can be programmed using an MII 33interface. 34The 35.Nm 36driver currently handles all of the media detection, 37selection, and reporting using the ifmedia interface. 38A generic driver has been included for all PHYs that are not 39handled by a specific driver, this is possible because all 4010/100 PHYs implement the same general register set along with 41their vendor specific register set. 42.Pp 43The following network device drivers use the 44.Nm 45interface: 46.Pp 47.Bl -tag -compact -width ".Xr fxp 4" 48.It Xr an 4 49Aironet 4500/4800 802.11 wireless NICs 50.It Xr aue 4 51ADMtek USB Ethernet 52.It Xr awi 4 53BayStack 660 and others 54.It Xr bge 4 55Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet 56.It Xr cue 4 57CATC USB Ethernet 58.It Xr dc 4 59DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes 60.It Xr ed 4 61NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390 cards 62.It Xr fxp 4 63Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558) 64.It Xr gem 4 65Sun ERI, Sun GEM and Apple GMAC Ethernet 66.It Xr hme 4 67Sun HME Ethernet 68.It Xr kue 4 69Kawasaki LSI USB Ethernet 70.It Xr my 4 71Myson Technologies PCI Ethernet adaptors 72.It Xr pcn 4 73AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100 74.It Xr rl 4 75RealTek 8129/8139 76.It Xr rue 4 77RealTek RTL8150 USB To Fast Ethernet 78.It Xr sf 4 79Adaptec AIC-6915 80.It Xr sis 4 81Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016 82.It Xr ste 4 83Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX) 84.It Xr tl 4 85Texas Instruments ThunderLAN 86.It Xr tx 4 87SMC EtherPower II (83c170) 88.It Xr vr 4 89VIA Rhine, Rhine II 90.It Xr wb 4 91Winbond W89C840F 92.It Xr xl 4 933Com 3c90x 94.El 95.Sh COMPATIBILITY 96The implementation of 97.Nm 98was originally intended to have similar API interfaces 99to 100.Bsx 3.0 101and 102.Nx , 103but as a result are not well behaved newbus device drivers. 104.Sh SEE ALSO 105.Xr an 4 , 106.Xr arp 4 , 107.Xr aue 4 , 108.Xr awi 4 , 109.Xr bge 4 , 110.Xr cue 4 , 111.Xr dc 4 , 112.Xr ed 4 , 113.Xr fxp 4 , 114.Xr gem 4 , 115.Xr hme 4 , 116.Xr kue 4 , 117.Xr my 4 , 118.Xr netintro 4 , 119.Xr pcn 4 , 120.Xr rl 4 , 121.Xr rue 4 , 122.Xr sf 4 , 123.Xr sis 4 , 124.Xr ste 4 , 125.Xr tl 4 , 126.Xr tx 4 , 127.Xr vr 4 , 128.Xr wb 4 , 129.Xr xl 4 130.Sh STANDARDS 131More information on MII can be found in the IEEE 802.3 Standard. 132.Sh HISTORY 133The 134.Nm 135driver first appeared in 136.Fx 3.3 . 137.Sh AUTHORS 138This manual page was written by 139.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org . 140