1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Marius Strobl <marius@FreeBSD.org> 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 14.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 15.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 17.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 18.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 19.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 20.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 21.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 22.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 23.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 24.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" 26.\" $FreeBSD$ 27.\" 28.Dd January 16, 2011 29.Dt RGEPHY 4 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm rgephy 33.Nd RealTek RTL8168/8169/8110/8211 series 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet PHY driver 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35To compile all available PHY drivers into the kernel, 36place the following line in your kernel configuration file: 37.Bd -ragged -offset indent 38.Cd "device miibus" 39.Ed 40.Pp 41Alternatively, to selectively compile this driver into the kernel, 42place the following lines in your kernel configuration file instead: 43.Bd -ragged -offset indent 44.Cd "device mii" 45.Cd "device rgephy" 46.Ed 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48The 49.Nm 50driver supports the RealTek RTL8168, RTL8169, RTL8110 and RTL8211 series 51integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet PHYs. 52.Pp 53In order to get a list of media types and options supported by a specific 54instance of the 55.Nm 56driver, run 57.Li ifconfig -m 58on the instance of its parent MAC driver. 59.Pp 60Additionally, 61the 62.Nm 63driver supports the following special media option: 64.Bl -tag -width ".Cm flag0" 65.It Cm flag0 66When manually setting media type and options via 67.Xr ifconfig 8 , 68the 69.Nm 70driver by default also triggers an autonegotiation advertising the selected 71media. 72This is done in order to work around hardware issues in certain scenarios. 73It is believed that this behavior does not cause harm in general but in fact 74can have an adverse effect in edge cases. 75In order to manually set the media type and options without also triggering 76an autonegotiation, 77the 78.Nm 79driver allows to turn this behavior off via the 80.Cm flag0 81media option. 82.El 83.Pp 84Note that this special media option will not show up in the output of 85.Xr ifconfig 8 , 86even when set. 87.Sh EXAMPLES 88Manually set 100BASE-TX full-duplex without also triggering an 89autonegotiation: 90.Pp 91.Dl "ifconfig re0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex,flag0" 92.Sh SEE ALSO 93.Xr intro 4 , 94.Xr miibus 4 , 95.Xr ifconfig 8 96