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1bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.\"	$OpenBSD: nfe.4,v 1.7 2006/02/28 08:13:47 jsg Exp $
2bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.\"
3bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Jonathan Gray <jsg@openbsd.org>
4bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.\"
5bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
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17bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.\" $FreeBSD$
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19fe0e43d6SChristian Brueffer.Dd June 28, 2006
20bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Dt NFE 4
21bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Os
22bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Sh NAME
23bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Nm nfe
24bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Nd "NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet driver"
25bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Sh SYNOPSIS
26bfc788c2SDavid E. O'BrienTo compile this driver into the kernel,
27bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brienplace the following lines in your
28bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brienkernel configuration file:
29bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Bd -ragged -offset indent
30bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Cd "device miibus"
31fe0e43d6SChristian Brueffer.Cd "device nfe"
32bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Ed
33bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Pp
34bfc788c2SDavid E. O'BrienAlternatively, to load the driver as a
35bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brienmodule at boot time, place the following line in
36bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Xr loader.conf 5 :
37bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Bd -literal -offset indent
38bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brienif_nfe_load="YES"
39bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Ed
40bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Sh DESCRIPTION
41bfc788c2SDavid E. O'BrienThe
42bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Nm
43bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Briendriver supports PCI Ethernet adapters based on the NVIDIA
44bfc788c2SDavid E. O'BriennForce Media and Communications Processors (MCP), such as
45bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brienthe nForce, nForce 2, nForce 3, CK804, MCP04, MCP51 and MCP55
46bfc788c2SDavid E. O'BrienEthernet controller chips.
47bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Pp
48bfc788c2SDavid E. O'BrienThe
49bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Nm
50bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Briendriver supports the following
51bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Ar media
52bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brientypes:
53bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Pp
54bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Bl -tag -width autoselect -compact
55bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.It Cm autoselect
56bfc788c2SDavid E. O'BrienEnable autoselection of the media type and options.
57bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.It Cm 10baseT
58bfc788c2SDavid E. O'BrienSet 10Mbps operation.
59bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.It Cm 100baseTX
60bfc788c2SDavid E. O'BrienSet 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
61bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.It Cm 1000baseT
62bfc788c2SDavid E. O'BrienSet 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation (recent models only).
63bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.El
64bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Sh SEE ALSO
65bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Xr arp 4 ,
66bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Xr intro 4 ,
67bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Xr miibus 4 ,
68bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Xr netintro 4 ,
69bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Xr pci 4 ,
70bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Xr ifconfig 8
71bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Sh HISTORY
72bfc788c2SDavid E. O'BrienThe
73bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Nm
74bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Briendevice driver first appeared in
75bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Ox 3.9 ,
76bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brienand then in
77bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Fx 6.0 .
78bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Sh AUTHORS
79bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.An -nosplit
80bfc788c2SDavid E. O'BrienThe
81bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Nm
82bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Briendriver was written by
83bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.An Jonathan Gray
84bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Aq jsg@openbsd.org
85bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brienand
86bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.An Damien Bergamini
87bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Aq damien@openbsd.org .
88bfc788c2SDavid E. O'BrienThe
89bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Nm
90bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Briendriver was ported to
91bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Fx
92bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brienby
93bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.An Shigeaki Tagashira
94bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Aq shigeaki@se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp .
95bfc788c2SDavid E. O'Brien.Sh CAVEATS
96bfc788c2SDavid E. O'BrienNVIDIA refuse to release any documentation on their products.
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