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28.Dd July 16, 2005
29.Dt TX 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm tx
33.Nd "SMC 83c17x Fast Ethernet device driver"
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35To compile this driver into the kernel,
36place the following lines in your
37kernel configuration file:
38.Bd -ragged -offset indent
39.Cd "device miibus"
40.Cd "device tx"
41.Ed
42.Pp
43Alternatively, to load the driver as a
44module at boot time, place the following line in
45.Xr loader.conf 5 :
46.Bd -literal -offset indent
47if_tx_load="YES"
48.Ed
49.Sh DESCRIPTION
50The
51.Nm
52driver provides support for the Ethernet adapters based on the
53SMC 83c17x (EPIC) chips.
54These are mostly SMC 9432 series cards.
55.Pp
56The
57.Nm
58driver supports the following media types (depending on card's capabilities):
59.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP"
60.It Cm autoselect
61Enable autonegotiation (default).
62.It Cm 100baseFX
63Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) fiber optic operation.
64.It Cm 100baseTX
65Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) twisted pair operation.
66.It Cm 10baseT/UTP
67Set 10Mbps on 10baseT port.
68.It Cm 10base2/BNC
69Set 10Mbps on 10base2 port.
70.El
71.Pp
72The
73.Nm
74driver supports the following media options:
75.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex"
76.It Cm full-duplex
77Set full-duplex operation.
78.El
79.Pp
80The
81.Nm
82driver supports oversized Ethernet packets (up to 1600 bytes).
83Refer to the
84.Xr ifconfig 8
85man page on setting the interface's MTU.
86.Pp
87The old
88.Dq Li "ifconfig tx0 linkN"
89method of configuration is not supported.
90.Ss "VLAN (IEEE 802.1Q) support"
91The
92.Nm
93driver supports the VLAN operation (using
94.Xr vlan 4
95interfaces) without decreasing the MTU on the
96.Xr vlan 4
97interfaces.
98.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
99.Bl -diag
100.It "tx%d: device timeout %d packets"
101The device stops responding.
102Device and driver reset follows this error.
103.It "tx%d: PCI fatal error occurred (%s)"
104One of following errors occurred: PCI Target Abort, PCI Master Abort, Data
105Parity Error or Address Parity Error.
106Device and driver reset follows this error.
107.It "tx%d: cannot allocate mbuf header/cluster"
108Cannot allocate memory for received packet.
109Packet thrown away.
110.It "tx%d: can't stop %s DMA"
111While resetting, the driver failed to stop the device correctly.
112.El
113.Sh SEE ALSO
114.Xr arp 4 ,
115.Xr miibus 4 ,
116.Xr netintro 4 ,
117.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
118.Xr ifconfig 8
119.Sh BUGS
120The auto-negotiation does not work very well.
121