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 December 13, 2006 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 my 4 73Myson Technologies PCI Ethernet adaptors 74.It Xr nge 4 75National Semiconductor DP83820/DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet 76.It Xr nve 4 77NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter 78.It Xr pcn 4 79AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100 80.It Xr re 4 81RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S 82.It Xr rl 4 83RealTek 8129/8139 84.It Xr rue 4 85RealTek RTL8150 USB To Fast Ethernet 86.It Xr sf 4 87Adaptec AIC-6915 88.It Xr sis 4 89Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016 90.It Xr sk 4 91SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x Gigabit Ethernet 92.It Xr ste 4 93Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX) 94.It Xr stge 4 95Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet 96.It Xr tl 4 97Texas Instruments ThunderLAN 98.It Xr tx 4 99SMC EtherPower II (83c170) 100.It Xr udav 4 101Davicom DM9601 USB Ethernet 102.It Xr vge 4 103VIA VT612x PCI Gigabit Ethernet 104.It Xr vr 4 105VIA Rhine, Rhine II 106.It Xr wb 4 107Winbond W89C840F 108.It Xr xl 4 1093Com 3c90x 110.El 111.Sh COMPATIBILITY 112The implementation of 113.Nm 114was originally intended to have similar API interfaces 115to 116.Bsx 3.0 117and 118.Nx , 119but as a result are not well behaved newbus device drivers. 120.Sh SEE ALSO 121.Xr arp 4 , 122.Xr aue 4 , 123.Xr axe 4 , 124.Xr bce 4 , 125.Xr bfe 4 , 126.Xr bge 4 , 127.Xr dc 4 , 128.Xr ed 4 , 129.Xr fxp 4 , 130.Xr gem 4 , 131.Xr hme 4 , 132.Xr lge 4 , 133.Xr msk 4 , 134.Xr my 4 , 135.Xr netintro 4 , 136.Xr nge 4 , 137.Xr nve 4 , 138.Xr pcn 4 , 139.Xr re 4 , 140.Xr rl 4 , 141.Xr rue 4 , 142.Xr sf 4 , 143.Xr sis 4 , 144.Xr sk 4 , 145.Xr ste 4 , 146.Xr stge 4 , 147.Xr tl 4 , 148.Xr tx 4 , 149.Xr udav 4 , 150.Xr vge 4 , 151.Xr vr 4 , 152.Xr wb 4 , 153.Xr xl 4 154.Sh STANDARDS 155More information on MII can be found in the IEEE 802.3 Standard. 156.Sh HISTORY 157The 158.Nm 159driver first appeared in 160.Fx 3.3 . 161.Sh AUTHORS 162This manual page was written by 163.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org . 164