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IN NO EVENT SHALL Bill Paul OR THE VOICES IN HIS HEAD 23.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 24.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 25.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 26.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 27.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 28.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF 29.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" 31.\" $FreeBSD$ 32.\" 33.Dd November 24, 2004 34.Dt STE 4 35.Os 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm ste 38.Nd "Sundance Technologies ST201 Fast Ethernet device driver" 39.Sh SYNOPSIS 40.Cd "device miibus" 41.Cd "device ste" 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43The 44.Nm 45driver provides support for PCI Ethernet adapters and embedded 46controllers based on the Sundance Technologies ST201 PCI Fast 47Ethernet controller chip. 48.Pp 49The Sundance ST201 uses bus master DMA and is designed to be a 503Com Etherlink XL workalike. 51It uses the same DMA descriptor 52structure and is very similar in operation, however its register 53layout is different. 54The ST201 has a 64-bit multicast hash filter 55and a single perfect filter entry for the station address. 56It supports both 10 and 100Mbps speeds in either full or half duplex 57using an MII transceiver. 58.Pp 59The 60.Nm 61driver supports the following media types: 62.Pp 63.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 64.It autoselect 65Enable autoselection of the media type and options. 66The user can manually override 67the autoselected mode by adding media options to the 68.Pa /etc/rc.conf 69file. 70.It 10baseT/UTP 71Set 10Mbps operation. 72The 73.Ar mediaopt 74option can also be used to select either 75.Ar full-duplex 76or 77.Ar half-duplex 78modes. 79.It 100baseTX 80Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. 81The 82.Ar mediaopt 83option can also be used to select either 84.Ar full-duplex 85or 86.Ar half-duplex 87modes. 88.El 89.Pp 90The 91.Nm 92driver supports the following media options: 93.Pp 94.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 95.It full-duplex 96Force full duplex operation 97.It half-duplex 98Force half duplex operation. 99.El 100.Pp 101For more information on configuring this device, see 102.Xr ifconfig 8 . 103.Sh HARDWARE 104The 105.Nm 106driver supports Sundance Technologies ST201 based Fast Ethernet 107adapters and embedded controllers including: 108.Pp 109.Bl -bullet -compact 110.It 111D-Link DFE-530TXS 112.It 113D-Link DFE-550TX 114.It 115D-Link DFE-580TX 116.El 117.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 118.Bl -diag 119.It "ste%d: couldn't map ports/memory" 120A fatal initialization error has occurred. 121.It "ste%d: couldn't map interrupt" 122A fatal initialization error has occurred. 123.It "ste%d: watchdog timeout" 124The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with 125the network connection (cable). 126.It "ste%d: no memory for rx list" 127The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring. 128.It "ste%d: no memory for tx list" 129The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the transmitter ring when 130allocating a pad buffer or collapsing an mbuf chain into a cluster. 131.It "ste%d: chip is in D3 power state -- setting to D0" 132This message applies only to adapters which support power 133management. 134Some operating systems place the controller in low power 135mode when shutting down, and some PCI BIOSes fail to bring the chip 136out of this state before configuring it. 137The controller loses all of 138its PCI configuration in the D3 state, so if the BIOS does not set 139it back to full power mode in time, it will not be able to configure it 140correctly. 141The driver tries to detect this condition and bring 142the adapter back to the D0 (full power) state, but this may not be 143enough to return the driver to a fully operational condition. 144If 145you see this message at boot time and the driver fails to attach 146the device as a network interface, you will have to perform a second 147warm boot to have the device properly configured. 148.Pp 149Note that this condition only occurs when warm booting from another 150operating system. 151If you power down your system prior to booting 152.Fx , 153the card should be configured correctly. 154.El 155.Sh SEE ALSO 156.Xr arp 4 , 157.Xr miibus 4 , 158.Xr netintro 4 , 159.Xr ng_ether 4 , 160.Xr polling 4 , 161.Xr ifconfig 8 162.Rs 163.%T Sundance ST201 data sheet 164.%O http://www.sundanceti.com 165.Re 166.Sh HISTORY 167The 168.Nm 169device driver first appeared in 170.Fx 3.0 . 171.Sh AUTHORS 172The 173.Nm 174driver was written by 175.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@ee.columbia.edu . 176