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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 September 3, 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.El 115.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 116.Bl -diag 117.It "ste%d: couldn't map ports/memory" 118A fatal initialization error has occurred. 119.It "ste%d: couldn't map interrupt" 120A fatal initialization error has occurred. 121.It "ste%d: watchdog timeout" 122The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with 123the network connection (cable). 124.It "ste%d: no memory for rx list" 125The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring. 126.It "ste%d: no memory for tx list" 127The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the transmitter ring when 128allocating a pad buffer or collapsing an mbuf chain into a cluster. 129.It "ste%d: chip is in D3 power state -- setting to D0" 130This message applies only to adapters which support power 131management. 132Some operating systems place the controller in low power 133mode when shutting down, and some PCI BIOSes fail to bring the chip 134out of this state before configuring it. 135The controller loses all of 136its PCI configuration in the D3 state, so if the BIOS does not set 137it back to full power mode in time, it won't be able to configure it 138correctly. 139The driver tries to detect this condition and bring 140the adapter back to the D0 (full power) state, but this may not be 141enough to return the driver to a fully operational condition. 142If 143you see this message at boot time and the driver fails to attach 144the device as a network interface, you will have to perform a second 145warm boot to have the device properly configured. 146.Pp 147Note that this condition only occurs when warm booting from another 148operating system. 149If you power down your system prior to booting 150.Fx , 151the card should be configured correctly. 152.El 153.Sh SEE ALSO 154.Xr arp 4 , 155.Xr miibus 4 , 156.Xr netintro 4 , 157.Xr ng_ether 4 , 158.Xr ifconfig 8 159.Rs 160.%T Sundance ST201 data sheet 161.%O http://www.sundanceti.com 162.Re 163.Sh HISTORY 164The 165.Nm 166device driver first appeared in 167.Fx 3.0 . 168.Sh AUTHORS 169The 170.Nm 171driver was written by 172.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@ee.columbia.edu . 173