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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 15:32:58 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 15:32:58 -0400 |
| commit | 5cb84ec742fd33f78c8022863fadaa8d0d93e176 (patch) | |
| tree | 1a81ca3665e6153923e40db7b0d988f8573ab59c /static/netbsd/man4/se.4 | |
| parent | a59214f344567c037d5776879bcfc5fcc1d4d5f6 (diff) | |
feat: Added NetBSD man pages
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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man4/se.4 b/static/netbsd/man4/se.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4d15c26a --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man4/se.4 @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: se.4,v 1.7 2017/07/04 06:35:46 wiz Exp $ +.\" +.Dd February 3, 1997 +.Dt SE 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm se +.Nd Cabletron EA41x SCSI bus Ethernet interface driver +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "se* at scsibus? target ? lun ?" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver supports the +.Tn Cabletron +EA41x +.Tn SCSI +bus +.Tn Ethernet +interface. +.Pp +This driver is a bit unusual. +It must look like a network interface and it must also appear to be a +.Tn SCSI +device to the +.Tn SCSI +system. +.Pp +In addition, to facilitate +.Tn SCSI +commands issued by userland programs, there are +.Fn open , +.Fn close , +and +.Fn ioctl +entry points. +This allows a user program to, for example, +display the EA41x statistic and download new code into the adaptor \- +functions which can't be performed through the +.Xr ifconfig 8 +interface. +Normal operation does not require any special userland program. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr scsi 4 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +.An Ian Dall Aq Mt ian.dall@dsto.defence.gov.au +.Pp +Acknowledgement: Thanks are due to +.An Philip L. Budne Aq Mt budd@cs.bu.edu +who reverse engineered the EA41x. +In developing this code, Phil's userland daemon "etherd", +was referred to extensively in lieu of accurate documentation for the device. +.Sh BUGS +The EA41x doesn't conform to the +.Tn SCSI +specification in much at all. +About the only standard command supported is +.Qq inquiry . +Most commands are 6 bytes long, but the recv data is only 1 byte. +Data must be received by periodically polling the device with the +recv command. |
