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 14, 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 cas 4 65Sun Cassini/Cassini+ and National Semiconductor DP83065 Saturn 66.It Xr dc 4 67DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes 68.It Xr ed 4 69NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390 cards 70.It Xr et 4 71Agere ET1310 Gigabit Ethernet 72.It Xr fxp 4 73Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B 74.It Xr gem 4 75Sun ERI, Sun GEM and Apple GMAC Ethernet 76.It Xr hme 4 77Sun HME Ethernet 78.It Xr jme 4 79JMicron JMC250 Gigabit/JMC260 Fast Ethernet 80.It Xr lge 4 81Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator Gigabit Ethernet 82.It Xr msk 4 83Marvell/SysKonnect Yukon II Gigabit Ethernet 84.It Xr nfe 4 85NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter 86.It Xr nge 4 87National Semiconductor DP83820/DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet 88.It Xr nve 4 89NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter 90.It Xr pcn 4 91AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100 92.It Xr re 4 93RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S 94.It Xr rl 4 95RealTek 8129/8139 96.It Xr rue 4 97RealTek RTL8150 USB To Fast Ethernet 98.It Xr sf 4 99Adaptec AIC-6915 100.It Xr sis 4 101Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016 102.It Xr sk 4 103SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x Gigabit Ethernet 104.It Xr ste 4 105Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX) 106.It Xr stge 4 107Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet 108.It Xr tl 4 109Texas Instruments ThunderLAN 110.It Xr tx 4 111SMC EtherPower II (83c170) 112.It Xr udav 4 113Davicom DM9601 USB Ethernet 114.It Xr vge 4 115VIA VT612x PCI Gigabit Ethernet 116.It Xr vr 4 117VIA Rhine, Rhine II 118.It Xr wb 4 119Winbond W89C840F 120.It Xr xl 4 1213Com 3c90x 122.El 123.Sh COMPATIBILITY 124The implementation of 125.Nm 126was originally intended to have similar API interfaces 127to 128.Bsx 3.0 129and 130.Nx , 131but as a result are not well behaved newbus device drivers. 132.Sh SEE ALSO 133.Xr age 4 , 134.Xr alc 4 , 135.Xr ale 4 , 136.Xr arp 4 , 137.Xr aue 4 , 138.Xr axe 4 , 139.Xr bce 4 , 140.Xr bfe 4 , 141.Xr bge 4 , 142.Xr cas 4 , 143.Xr dc 4 , 144.Xr ed 4 , 145.Xr et 4 , 146.Xr fxp 4 , 147.Xr gem 4 , 148.Xr hme 4 , 149.Xr jme 4 , 150.Xr lge 4 , 151.Xr msk 4 , 152.Xr netintro 4 , 153.Xr nfe 4 , 154.Xr nge 4 , 155.Xr nve 4 , 156.Xr pcn 4 , 157.Xr re 4 , 158.Xr rl 4 , 159.Xr rue 4 , 160.Xr sf 4 , 161.Xr sis 4 , 162.Xr sk 4 , 163.Xr ste 4 , 164.Xr stge 4 , 165.Xr tl 4 , 166.Xr tx 4 , 167.Xr udav 4 , 168.Xr vge 4 , 169.Xr vr 4 , 170.Xr wb 4 , 171.Xr xl 4 172.Sh STANDARDS 173More information on MII can be found in the IEEE 802.3 Standard. 174.Sh HISTORY 175The 176.Nm 177driver first appeared in 178.Fx 3.3 . 179.Sh AUTHORS 180This manual page was written by 181.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org . 182