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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man4/dc.4 b/static/openbsd/man4/dc.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fed1cf06 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man4/dc.4 @@ -0,0 +1,393 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: dc.4,v 1.54 2022/02/18 10:24:32 jsg Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999 +.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@ee.columbia.edu>. 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. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man4/dc.4,v 1.1 1999/12/04 17:41:24 wpaul Exp $ +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 18 2022 $ +.Dt DC 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm dc +.Nd DEC/Intel 21140/21142/21143/21145 and clones 10/100 Ethernet device +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "dc* at pci?" +.Cd "dc* at cardbus?" +.Cd "amphy* at mii?" +.Cd "bmtphy* at mii?" +.Cd "dcphy* at mii?" +.Cd "icsphy* at mii?" +.Cd "lxtphy* at mii?" +.Cd "mtdphy* at mii?" +.Cd "nsphy* at mii?" +.Cd "nsphyter* at mii?" +.Cd "sqphy* at mii?" +.Cd "tqphy* at mii?" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for several PCI, Mini PCI, and CardBus Fast Ethernet +adapters and embedded controllers based on the following chipsets: +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent +.It +DEC 21140 PCI +.It +DEC/Intel 21143 PCI and CardBus +.It +Intel 21145 PCI +.It +Macronix 98713, 98713A, 98715, 98715A, 98725, 98727 and 98732 +.It +Davicom DM9100, DM9102, and DM9102A +.It +ASIX Electronics AX88140A and AX88141 +.It +ADMtek AL981 Comet, AN983 Centaur-P and ADM9511/ADM9513 Centaur-II PCI +.It +ADMtek AN985 Centaur-C CardBus +.It +Lite-On 82c168 and 82c169 PNIC +.It +Lite-On/Macronix 82c115 PNIC II +.It +Xircom X3201-based CardBus +.El +.Pp +All of these chips have the same general register layout, DMA +descriptor format and method of operation. +All of the clone chips are based on the 21143 design with +various modifications. +(The 21140 is an older version of the 21143.) +The 21143 itself has support for 10baseT, BNC, AUI, MII and symbol +media attachments, 10 and 100Mbps speeds in full or half duplex, +and built-in NWAY autonegotiation. +The 21143 also offers several receive filter programming options including +perfect filtering, inverse perfect filtering and hash table filtering. +The 21145 seems to be 10Mbps only and has an additional (unsupported) +HomePNA PHY. +.Pp +Some clone chips duplicate the 21143 fairly closely while others +only maintain superficial similarities. +Some support only MII media attachments. +Others use different receiver filter programming mechanisms. +At least one supports only chained DMA descriptors +(most support both chained descriptors and contiguously allocated +fixed size rings). +Some chips (especially the PNIC) also have peculiar bugs. +The +.Nm +driver does its best to provide generalized support for all +of these chipsets in order to keep special case code to a minimum. +.Pp +These chips are used by many vendors, which makes it +difficult to provide a complete list of all supported cards. +The following NICs are known to work with the +.Nm +driver at this time: +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent +.It +Digital DE500-BA 10/100 (21143, non-MII) +.It +Built-in DE500-BA on DEC Alpha workstations (21143, non-MII) +.It +Built-in Ethernet on Linksys EtherFast 10/100 Instant GigaDrive (DM9102, MII) +.It +Kingston KNE100TX (21143, MII) +.It +D-Link DFE-570TX (21143, MII, quad port) +.It +NDC SOHOware SFA110A (98713A) +.It +NDC SOHOware SFA110A Rev B4 (98715AEC-C) +.It +SVEC PN102-TX (98713) +.It +CNet Pro120A (98715A or 98713A) and CNet Pro120B (98715) +.It +Compex RL100-TX (98713 or 98713A) +.It +Linksys LNE100TX (PNIC 82c168, 82c169) +.It +NetGear FA310-TX Rev. D1, D2 or D3 (PNIC 82c169) +.It +Matrox FastNIC 10/100 (PNIC 82c168, 82c169) +.It +Kingston KNE110TX (PNIC 82c169) +.It +Linksys LNE100TX v2.0 (PNIC II 82c115) +.It +Jaton XpressNet (Davicom DM9102) +.It +Alfa Inc GFC2204 (ASIX AX88140A) +.It +CNet Pro110B (ASIX AX88140A) +.It +Linksys LNE100TX v4.x (ADMtek AN983 Centaur-P) +.It +Xircom CardBus, including RealPort models (Xircom X3201) +.It +IBM EtherJet 10/100 CardBus (Intel 21143) +.It +Accton EN1217 (98715) and EN2242 (ADMtek Centaur) +.It +Mototech ME316 (ADMtek Centaur) +.It +Conexant LANfinity RS7112 Mini PCI +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media types: +.Bl -tag -width full-duplex +.It autoselect +Enable autoselection of the media type and options. +The user can manually override +the autoselected mode by adding media options to the +.Xr hostname.if 5 +file. +.Pp +Note: the built-in NWAY autonegotiation on the original PNIC 82c168 +chip is horribly broken and is not supported by the +.Nm +driver at this time: the chip will operate in any speed or duplex +mode, however these must be set manually. +The original 82c168 appears on very early revisions of the Linksys LNE100TX +and Matrox FastNIC. +.It 10baseT +Set 10Mbps operation. +The +.Ar mediaopt +option can also be used to enable +.Ar full-duplex +operation. +Not specifying +.Ar full duplex +implies +.Ar half-duplex +mode. +.It 100baseTX +Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. +The +.Ar mediaopt +option can also be used to enable +.Ar full-duplex +operation. +Not specifying +.Ar full duplex +implies +.Ar half-duplex +mode. +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media options: +.Bl -tag -width full-duplex +.It full-duplex +Force full duplex operation. +The interface will operate in half duplex mode if this media option +is not specified. +.El +.Pp +Note that the 100baseTX media type may not be available on certain +Intel 21143 adapters which support 10Mbps media attachments only. +The Intel 21145 supports 10Mbps half-duplex only. +.Pp +For more information on configuring this device, see +.Xr ifconfig 8 . +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "dc0: couldn't map ports/memory" +A fatal initialization error has occurred. +.It "dc0: couldn't map interrupt" +A fatal initialization error has occurred. +.It "dc0: watchdog timeout" +A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was +issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the transmission +before a timeout expired. +This can happen if the device is unable to deliver interrupts for some +reason, or if there is a problem with the network connection (cable). +.It "dc0: no memory for rx list" +The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring. +.It "dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold" +The device generated a transmit underrun error while attempting to +DMA and transmit a packet. +This happens if the host is not able to DMA the packet data into the NIC's +FIFO fast enough. +The driver will dynamically increase the transmit start threshold so that +more data must be DMAed into the FIFO before the NIC will start +transmitting it onto the wire. +.It "dc0: TX underrun -- using store and forward mode" +The device continued to generate transmit underruns even after all +possible transmit start threshold settings had been tried, so the +driver programmed the chip for store and forward mode. +In this mode, the NIC will not begin transmission until the entire packet +has been transferred into its FIFO memory. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr amphy 4 , +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr bmtphy 4 , +.Xr cardbus 4 , +.Xr dcphy 4 , +.Xr icsphy 4 , +.Xr ifmedia 4 , +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr lxtphy 4 , +.Xr mtdphy 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr nsphy 4 , +.Xr nsphyter 4 , +.Xr pci 4 , +.Xr sqphy 4 , +.Xr tqphy 4 , +.Xr hostname.if 5 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Rs +.%T ADMtek AL981 and AL983 data sheets +.Re +.Rs +.%T ASIX Electronics AX88140A and AX88141 data sheets +.%U https://www.asix.com.tw +.Re +.Rs +.%T Davicom DM9102 data sheet +.Re +.Rs +.%T Intel 21143 Hardware Reference Manual +.%U http://developer.intel.com +.Re +.Rs +.%T Macronix 98713/A, 98715/A and 98725 data sheets +.%U https://www.macronix.com +.Re +.Rs +.%T Macronix 98713/A and 98715/A app notes +.%U https://www.macronix.com +.Re +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +device driver first appeared in +.Fx 4.0 . +.Ox +support was added in +.Ox 2.7 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Bill Paul Aq Mt wpaul@ee.columbia.edu +and ported to +.Ox +by +.An Aaron Campbell Aq Mt aaron@openbsd.org . +.Sh BUGS +The Macronix application notes claim that in order to put the +chips in normal operation, the driver must write a certain magic +number into the CSR16 register. +The numbers are documented in the app notes, but the exact meaning of the +bits is not. +.Pp +The 98713A seems to have a problem with 10Mbps full duplex mode. +The transmitter works but the receiver tends to produce many +unexplained errors leading to very poor overall performance. +The 98715A does not exhibit this problem. +All other modes on the 98713A seem to work correctly. +.Pp +The original 82c168 PNIC chip has built-in NWAY support which is +used on certain early Linksys LNE100TX and Matrox FastNIC cards, +however it is horribly broken and difficult to use reliably. +Consequently, autonegotiation is not currently supported for this +chipset: the driver defaults the NIC to 10baseT half duplex, and it's +up to the operator to manually select a different mode if necessary. +(Later cards use an external MII transceiver to implement NWAY +autonegotiation and work correctly.) +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver programs 82c168 and 82c169 PNIC chips to use the store and +forward setting for the transmit start threshold by default. +This is to work around problems with some NIC/PCI bus combinations where +the PNIC can transmit corrupt frames when operating at 100Mbps, +probably due to PCI DMA burst transfer errors. +.Pp +The 82c168 and 82c169 PNIC chips also have a receiver bug that +sometimes manifests during periods of heavy receive and transmit +activity, where the chip will improperly DMA received frames to +the host. +The chips appear to upload several kilobytes of garbage +data along with the received frame data, dirtying several RX buffers +instead of just the expected one. +The +.Nm +driver detects this condition and will salvage the frame, however +it incurs a serious performance penalty in the process. +.Pp +The PNIC chips also sometimes generate a transmit underrun error when +the driver attempts to download the receiver filter setup frame, which +can result in the receive filter being incorrectly programmed. +The +.Nm +driver will watch for this condition and requeue the setup frame until +it is transferred successfully. +.Pp +The ADMtek AL981 chip (and possibly the AN983 as well) has been observed +to sometimes wedge on transmit: this appears to happen when the driver +queues a sequence of frames which cause it to wrap from the end of +the transmit descriptor ring back to the beginning. +The +.Nm +driver attempts to avoid this condition by not queuing any frames past +the end of the transmit ring during a single invocation of the +.Fn dc_start +routine. +This workaround has a negligible impact on transmit performance. +.Pp +The +.Fn mii_tick +function does not currently run for ASIX boards, meaning cable disconnects +and reconnects can go unnoticed. +The AX88140A and AX88141 data sheets indicate that they don't have RX or TX +state registers (the bits are reserved). +Therefore, we can't seem to reliably detect when the adapter is idle. +.Pp +The Davicom interfaces require a grossly high PCI latency timer value to +function properly. +This means when a Davicom adapter is present in the machine, it is given +an unfairly high amount of bandwidth on the PCI bus, unnecessarily taking +time away from other devices. +Therefore, Davicom network cards are not recommended for use with +.Ox . +Be careful; some motherboards have Davicom interfaces 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