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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man4/vge.4 b/static/netbsd/man4/vge.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a4e1013b --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man4/vge.4 @@ -0,0 +1,210 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: vge.4,v 1.9 2019/10/07 14:29:21 wiz Exp $ +.\" +.\" 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. 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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/vge.4,v 1.7 2005/01/14 10:33:39 ru Exp +.\" +.Dd March 5, 2005 +.Dt VGE 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm vge +.Nd "VIA Networking Technologies VT6122 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver" +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "vge* at pci? dev ? function ?" +.Pp +Configuration of PHYs is also necessary. +See +.Xr mii 4 . +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for various NICs and embedded Ethernet interfaces +based on the VIA Networking Technologies VT6122 Gigabit Ethernet +controller chips. +.Pp +The 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 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 up to 16K in size. +The VT6122 has a 16K receive FIFO and 48K transmit FIFO. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver takes advantage of the VT6122's checksum offload and VLAN +tagging features, as well as the jumbo frame 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. +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 +The +.Nm +driver also supports one special link option for 1000baseTX cards: +.Bl -tag -width ".Cm link0" +.It Cm link0 +With 1000baseTX cards, establishing a link between two ports requires +that one port be configured as a master and the other a slave. +With autonegotiation, +the master/slave settings will be chosen automatically. +However when manually selecting the link state, it is necessary to +force one side of the link to be a master and the other a slave. +The +.Nm +driver configures the ports as slaves by default. +Setting the +.Cm link0 +flag with +.Xr ifconfig 8 +will set a port as a master instead. +.El +.Pp +For more information on configuring this device, see +.Xr ifconfig 8 . +.Sh HARDWARE +The +.Nm +driver supports VIA Networking VT3119 and VT6122 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 DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "vge%d: couldn't map memory" +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: unable to map interrupt" +A fatal initialization error has occurred. +.It "vge%d: watchdog timeout" +The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with +the network connection (cable). Driver resets the device. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr ciphy 4 , +.Xr ipgphy 4 , +.Xr mii 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr ukphy 4 , +.Xr vlan 4 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +device driver first appeared in +.Fx 5.3 +and then in +.Nx 3.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Bill Paul Aq Mt wpaul@windriver.com . +The +.Nx +port was done by +.An Jaromir Dolecek +.Aq jdolecek@NetBSD.org . +.Sh BUGS +VLAN packet filtering is done in software at the moment, though +using hardware VLAN tagging. |
