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 November 12, 2008 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 age 4 49Attansic/Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet 50.It Xr ale 4 51Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCIe Ethernet 52.It Xr aue 4 53ADMtek USB Ethernet 54.It Xr axe 4 55ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB Ethernet 56.It Xr bce 4 57Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet 58.It Xr bfe 4 59Broadcom BCM4401 Ethernet 60.It Xr bge 4 61Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet 62.It Xr dc 4 63DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes 64.It Xr ed 4 65NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390 cards 66.It Xr et 4 67Agere ET1310 Gigabit Ethernet 68.It Xr fxp 4 69Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B 70.It Xr gem 4 71Sun ERI, Sun GEM and Apple GMAC Ethernet 72.It Xr hme 4 73Sun HME Ethernet 74.It Xr jme 4 75JMicron JMC250 Gigabit/JMC260 Fast Ethernet 76.It Xr lge 4 77Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator Gigabit Ethernet 78.It Xr msk 4 79Marvell/SysKonnect Yukon II Gigabit Ethernet 80.It Xr nfe 4 81NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter 82.It Xr nge 4 83National Semiconductor DP83820/DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet 84.It Xr nve 4 85NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter 86.It Xr pcn 4 87AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100 88.It Xr re 4 89RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S 90.It Xr rl 4 91RealTek 8129/8139 92.It Xr rue 4 93RealTek RTL8150 USB To Fast Ethernet 94.It Xr sf 4 95Adaptec AIC-6915 96.It Xr sis 4 97Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016 98.It Xr sk 4 99SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x Gigabit Ethernet 100.It Xr ste 4 101Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX) 102.It Xr stge 4 103Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet 104.It Xr tl 4 105Texas Instruments ThunderLAN 106.It Xr tx 4 107SMC EtherPower II (83c170) 108.It Xr udav 4 109Davicom DM9601 USB Ethernet 110.It Xr vge 4 111VIA VT612x PCI Gigabit Ethernet 112.It Xr vr 4 113VIA Rhine, Rhine II 114.It Xr wb 4 115Winbond W89C840F 116.It Xr xl 4 1173Com 3c90x 118.El 119.Sh COMPATIBILITY 120The implementation of 121.Nm 122was originally intended to have similar API interfaces 123to 124.Bsx 3.0 125and 126.Nx , 127but as a result are not well behaved newbus device drivers. 128.Sh SEE ALSO 129.Xr age 4 , 130.Xr ale 4 , 131.Xr arp 4 , 132.Xr aue 4 , 133.Xr axe 4 , 134.Xr bce 4 , 135.Xr bfe 4 , 136.Xr bge 4 , 137.Xr dc 4 , 138.Xr ed 4 , 139.Xr et 4 , 140.Xr fxp 4 , 141.Xr gem 4 , 142.Xr hme 4 , 143.Xr jme 4 , 144.Xr lge 4 , 145.Xr msk 4 , 146.Xr netintro 4 , 147.Xr nfe 4 , 148.Xr nge 4 , 149.Xr nve 4 , 150.Xr pcn 4 , 151.Xr re 4 , 152.Xr rl 4 , 153.Xr rue 4 , 154.Xr sf 4 , 155.Xr sis 4 , 156.Xr sk 4 , 157.Xr ste 4 , 158.Xr stge 4 , 159.Xr tl 4 , 160.Xr tx 4 , 161.Xr udav 4 , 162.Xr vge 4 , 163.Xr vr 4 , 164.Xr wb 4 , 165.Xr xl 4 166.Sh STANDARDS 167More information on MII can be found in the IEEE 802.3 Standard. 168.Sh HISTORY 169The 170.Nm 171driver first appeared in 172.Fx 3.3 . 173.Sh AUTHORS 174This manual page was written by 175.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org . 176