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 March 11, 2007 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 aue 4 49ADMtek USB Ethernet 50.It Xr axe 4 51ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB Ethernet 52.It Xr bce 4 53Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet 54.It Xr bfe 4 55Broadcom BCM4401 Ethernet 56.It Xr bge 4 57Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit 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 64.It Xr gem 4 65Sun ERI, Sun GEM and Apple GMAC Ethernet 66.It Xr hme 4 67Sun HME Ethernet 68.It Xr lge 4 69Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator Gigabit Ethernet 70.It Xr msk 4 71Marvell/SysKonnect Yukon II Gigabit Ethernet 72.It Xr nge 4 73National Semiconductor DP83820/DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet 74.It Xr nve 4 75NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter 76.It Xr pcn 4 77AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100 78.It Xr re 4 79RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S 80.It Xr rl 4 81RealTek 8129/8139 82.It Xr rue 4 83RealTek RTL8150 USB To Fast Ethernet 84.It Xr sf 4 85Adaptec AIC-6915 86.It Xr sis 4 87Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016 88.It Xr sk 4 89SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x Gigabit Ethernet 90.It Xr ste 4 91Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX) 92.It Xr stge 4 93Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet 94.It Xr tl 4 95Texas Instruments ThunderLAN 96.It Xr tx 4 97SMC EtherPower II (83c170) 98.It Xr udav 4 99Davicom DM9601 USB Ethernet 100.It Xr vge 4 101VIA VT612x PCI Gigabit Ethernet 102.It Xr vr 4 103VIA Rhine, Rhine II 104.It Xr wb 4 105Winbond W89C840F 106.It Xr xl 4 1073Com 3c90x 108.El 109.Sh COMPATIBILITY 110The implementation of 111.Nm 112was originally intended to have similar API interfaces 113to 114.Bsx 3.0 115and 116.Nx , 117but as a result are not well behaved newbus device drivers. 118.Sh SEE ALSO 119.Xr arp 4 , 120.Xr aue 4 , 121.Xr axe 4 , 122.Xr bce 4 , 123.Xr bfe 4 , 124.Xr bge 4 , 125.Xr dc 4 , 126.Xr ed 4 , 127.Xr fxp 4 , 128.Xr gem 4 , 129.Xr hme 4 , 130.Xr lge 4 , 131.Xr msk 4 , 132.Xr netintro 4 , 133.Xr nge 4 , 134.Xr nve 4 , 135.Xr pcn 4 , 136.Xr re 4 , 137.Xr rl 4 , 138.Xr rue 4 , 139.Xr sf 4 , 140.Xr sis 4 , 141.Xr sk 4 , 142.Xr ste 4 , 143.Xr stge 4 , 144.Xr tl 4 , 145.Xr tx 4 , 146.Xr udav 4 , 147.Xr vge 4 , 148.Xr vr 4 , 149.Xr wb 4 , 150.Xr xl 4 151.Sh STANDARDS 152More information on MII can be found in the IEEE 802.3 Standard. 153.Sh HISTORY 154The 155.Nm 156driver first appeared in 157.Fx 3.3 . 158.Sh AUTHORS 159This manual page was written by 160.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org . 161