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23.Dd "Aug 7, 2014"
24.Dt ELXL 7D
25.Os
26.Sh NAME
27.Nm elxl
28.Nd 3Com Etherlink XL device driver
29.Sh SYNOPSIS
30.Pa /dev/elxl
31.Sh DESCRIPTION
32The
33.Nm
34driver provides support for the 3Com Etherlink XL
35family of Ethernet and Fast Ethernet PCI controllers. These are often known
36by their part numbers, most often 3c905 or 3c900 variants.
37.Lp
38The 3c905 devices generally support some form of 100 Mbps Ethernet,
39whereas the 3c900 devices usually only support 10 Mbps.  Some devices
40support legacy media such as 10BASE-15, 10BASE-2, and even 10BASE-FL.
41.
42Where applicable, the devices support auto-negotiation, both full and
43half duplex, etc.  They also support full size MTUs (1500 bytes),
44even when used with VLANs.
45.
46.Lp
47The device driver supports the
48.Xr ieee802.3 5
49properties, which can be configured with
50.Xr dladm 1M .
51.Lp
52In addition, for devices with multiple external media ports, the driver
53supports a driver-specific
54.Xr dladm 1M
55property called
56.Sy media ,
57which can take one of the following values, depending on the available
58media options on the device:
59.Lp
60.Bl -tag -compact -offset indent -width Sy
61.It Sy mii
62Media Indendent Interface (MII), also 100BASE-TX
63.It Sy tp-hdx
6410 Mbps twisted pair, half-duplex
65.It Sy tp-fdx
6610 Mbps twisted pair full-duplex
67.It Sy fx-hdx
68100BASE-FX (fiber), half-duplex
69.It Sy fx-hdx
70100BASE-FX (fiber), full-duplex
71.It Sy bnc
7210BASE-2
73.Pq BNC, aka Dq thin-net
74.It Sy aui
7510BASE-15
76.Pq aka Dq thick-net
77.It Sy fl-hdx
7810BASE-FL (fiber), half-duplex
79.It Sy fl-fdx
8010BASE-FL (fiber), full-duplex
81.El
82.Lp
83The specific media options available can be queried with the
84device-specific
85.Sy available_media
86.Xr dladm 1M
87property.
88.Sh FILES
89.Bl -tag -width /dev/elxl
90.It Pa /dev/elxl
91Special character device.
92.El
93.Sh SEE ALSO
94.Xr dladm 1M ,
95.Xr ifconfig 1M ,
96.Xr pci 4 ,
97.Xr ieee802.3 5 ,
98.Xr dlpi 7P
99.Rs
100.%T IEEE 802.3: Ethernet
101.%Q IEEE Standards Association
102.Re
103