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 June 10, 2009 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 alc 4 51Atheros AR8131/AR8132 PCIe Ethernet 52.It Xr ale 4 53Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCIe Ethernet 54.It Xr aue 4 55ADMtek USB Ethernet 56.It Xr axe 4 57ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB Ethernet 58.It Xr bce 4 59Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet 60.It Xr bfe 4 61Broadcom BCM4401 Ethernet 62.It Xr bge 4 63Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet 64.It Xr dc 4 65DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes 66.It Xr ed 4 67NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390 cards 68.It Xr et 4 69Agere ET1310 Gigabit Ethernet 70.It Xr fxp 4 71Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B 72.It Xr gem 4 73Sun ERI, Sun GEM and Apple GMAC Ethernet 74.It Xr hme 4 75Sun HME Ethernet 76.It Xr jme 4 77JMicron JMC250 Gigabit/JMC260 Fast Ethernet 78.It Xr lge 4 79Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator Gigabit Ethernet 80.It Xr msk 4 81Marvell/SysKonnect Yukon II Gigabit Ethernet 82.It Xr nfe 4 83NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter 84.It Xr nge 4 85National Semiconductor DP83820/DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet 86.It Xr nve 4 87NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter 88.It Xr pcn 4 89AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100 90.It Xr re 4 91RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S 92.It Xr rl 4 93RealTek 8129/8139 94.It Xr rue 4 95RealTek RTL8150 USB To Fast Ethernet 96.It Xr sf 4 97Adaptec AIC-6915 98.It Xr sis 4 99Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016 100.It Xr sk 4 101SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x Gigabit Ethernet 102.It Xr ste 4 103Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX) 104.It Xr stge 4 105Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet 106.It Xr tl 4 107Texas Instruments ThunderLAN 108.It Xr tx 4 109SMC EtherPower II (83c170) 110.It Xr udav 4 111Davicom DM9601 USB Ethernet 112.It Xr vge 4 113VIA VT612x PCI Gigabit Ethernet 114.It Xr vr 4 115VIA Rhine, Rhine II 116.It Xr wb 4 117Winbond W89C840F 118.It Xr xl 4 1193Com 3c90x 120.El 121.Sh COMPATIBILITY 122The implementation of 123.Nm 124was originally intended to have similar API interfaces 125to 126.Bsx 3.0 127and 128.Nx , 129but as a result are not well behaved newbus device drivers. 130.Sh SEE ALSO 131.Xr age 4 , 132.Xr alc 4 , 133.Xr ale 4 , 134.Xr arp 4 , 135.Xr aue 4 , 136.Xr axe 4 , 137.Xr bce 4 , 138.Xr bfe 4 , 139.Xr bge 4 , 140.Xr dc 4 , 141.Xr ed 4 , 142.Xr et 4 , 143.Xr fxp 4 , 144.Xr gem 4 , 145.Xr hme 4 , 146.Xr jme 4 , 147.Xr lge 4 , 148.Xr msk 4 , 149.Xr netintro 4 , 150.Xr nfe 4 , 151.Xr nge 4 , 152.Xr nve 4 , 153.Xr pcn 4 , 154.Xr re 4 , 155.Xr rl 4 , 156.Xr rue 4 , 157.Xr sf 4 , 158.Xr sis 4 , 159.Xr sk 4 , 160.Xr ste 4 , 161.Xr stge 4 , 162.Xr tl 4 , 163.Xr tx 4 , 164.Xr udav 4 , 165.Xr vge 4 , 166.Xr vr 4 , 167.Xr wb 4 , 168.Xr xl 4 169.Sh STANDARDS 170More information on MII can be found in the IEEE 802.3 Standard. 171.Sh HISTORY 172The 173.Nm 174driver first appeared in 175.Fx 3.3 . 176.Sh AUTHORS 177This manual page was written by 178.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org . 179