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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 16:08:12 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 16:08:12 -0400 |
| commit | b9cde963555b6519c5dbd34a39dee3418f593437 (patch) | |
| tree | 453accad3c3286e3416d4160de4a87223aff684c /static/freebsd/man4/vge.4 | |
| parent | 5cb84ec742fd33f78c8022863fadaa8d0d93e176 (diff) | |
feat: Added FreeBSD man pages
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diff --git a/static/freebsd/man4/vge.4 b/static/freebsd/man4/vge.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9c0a89a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/freebsd/man4/vge.4 @@ -0,0 +1,223 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2004 +.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@windriver.com>. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by Bill Paul. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the author nor the names of any co-contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY Bill Paul AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL Bill Paul OR THE VOICES IN HIS HEAD +.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR +.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF +.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS +.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN +.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) +.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF +.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd May 29, 2011 +.Dt VGE 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm vge +.Nd "VIA Networking Technologies Velocity Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver" +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following lines in your +kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device miibus" +.Cd "device vge" +.Ed +.Pp +Alternatively, to load the driver as a +module at boot time, place the following line in +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +if_vge_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for various NICs and embedded Ethernet interfaces +based on the VIA Technologies VT6120, VT6122, VT6130 and VT6132 Velocity +Family Gigabit Ethernet controller chips. +.Pp +The VT6120/VT6122 is a 33/66MHz 64-bit PCI device which combines a tri-speed +MAC with an integrated 10/100/1000 copper PHY. +(Some older cards use an external PHY.) +The VT6130/VT6132 is the PCI express version of Velocity family. +The MAC supports TCP/IP hardware +checksums (IPv4 only), TCP large send, VLAN tag insertion and stripping, +as well as VLAN filtering, a 64-entry CAM filter and a 64-entry VLAN filter, +64-bit multicast hash filter, 4 separate transmit DMA queues, flow control +and jumbo frames (not on VT6130/VT6132) up to 16K in size. +The Velocity family controllers have a 16K receive FIFO and 48K transmit FIFO. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver takes advantage of the controller's checksum offload and VLAN +tagging features, as well as the jumbo frame (except VT6130/VT6132) and CAM +filter support. +The CAM filter is used for multicast address filtering to provide +64 perfect multicast address filter support. +If it is necessary for the interface to join more than 64 multicast +groups, the driver will switch over to using the hash filter. +.Pp +The jumbo frame support can be enabled by setting the interface MTU +to any value larger than the default of 1500 bytes, up to a maximum +of 9000 bytes. +Jumbo frames are disabled on the VT6130/VT6132 controllers because the TX +MAC will hang when trying to send a frame that is larger than 4K. +The receive and transmit checksum offload support +can be toggled on and off using the +.Xr ifconfig 8 +utility. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media types: +.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP" +.It Cm autoselect +Enable autoselection of the media type and options. +The user can manually override +the autoselected mode by adding media options to +.Xr rc.conf 5 . +.It Cm 10baseT/UTP +Set 10Mbps operation. +The +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Cm mediaopt +option can also be used to select either +.Cm full-duplex +or +.Cm half-duplex +modes. +.It Cm 100baseTX +Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. +The +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Cm mediaopt +option can also be used to select either +.Cm full-duplex +or +.Cm half-duplex +modes. +.It Cm 1000baseTX +Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair. +The +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Cm mediaopt +option can also be used to select either +.Cm full-duplex +or +.Cm half-duplex +modes. +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media options: +.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex" +.It Cm full-duplex +Force full duplex operation. +.It Cm half-duplex +Force half duplex operation. +.El +.Pp +For more information on configuring this device, see +.Xr ifconfig 8 . +.Sh HARDWARE +The +.Nm +driver supports VIA Networking VT6120, VT6122, VT6130 and VT6132 based +Gigabit Ethernet adapters including: +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +VIA Networking LAN-on-motherboard Gigabit Ethernet +.It +ZyXEL GN650-T 64-bit PCI Gigabit Ethernet NIC (ZX1701) +.It +ZyXEL GN670-T 32-bit PCI Gigabit Ethernet NIC (ZX1702) +.El +.Sh LOADER TUNABLES +Tunables can be set at the +.Xr loader 8 +prompt before booting the kernel or stored in +.Xr loader.conf 5 . +.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx" +.It Va hw.vge.msi_disable +This tunable disables MSI support on the Ethernet hardware. +The default value is 0. +.El +.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES +The following variables are available as both +.Xr sysctl 8 +variables and +.Xr loader 8 +tunables: +.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx" +.It Va dev.vge.%d.int_holdoff +Maximum number of time to delay interrupts. +The valid range is 0 to 5100 in units of 1us, the default is +150 (150us). +The resolution of timer is about 20us so finer tuning than +20us wouldn't be available. +The interface should be brought down and up again before a change +takes effect. +.It Va dev.vge.%d.rx_coal_pkt +Maximum number of packets to fire Rx completion interrupt. +The valid range is 1 to 255, the default is 64. +.It Va dev.vge.%d.tx_coal_pkt +Maximum number of packets to fire Tx completion interrupt. +The valid range is 1 to 255, the default is 128. +.El +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "vge%d: couldn't map memory" +A fatal initialization error has occurred. +.It "vge%d: couldn't map ports" +A fatal initialization error has occurred. +.It "vge%d: couldn't map interrupt" +A fatal initialization error has occurred. +.It "vge%d: failed to enable memory mapping!" +The driver failed to initialize PCI shared memory mapping. +This might +happen if the card is not in a bus-master slot. +.It "vge%d: watchdog timeout" +The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with +the network connection (cable). +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr altq 4 , +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr miibus 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr ng_ether 4 , +.Xr polling 4 , +.Xr vlan 4 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +device driver first appeared in +.Fx 5.3 . +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Bill Paul Aq Mt wpaul@windriver.com . |
