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| 1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 1996, Fred Gray 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright --- 14 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 23.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 24.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 25.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 26.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 27.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 28.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 29.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" | 1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 1996, Fred Gray 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright --- 14 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 23.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 24.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 25.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 26.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 27.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 28.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 29.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" |
| 31.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/man4.i386/vx.4 152569 2005-11-18 10:56:28Z ru $ | 31.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/man4.i386/vx.4 208027 2010-05-13 12:07:55Z uqs $ |
| 32.\" 33.Dd July 16, 2005 34.Dt VX 4 i386 35.Os 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm vx 38.Nd "3Com EtherLink III / Fast EtherLink III (3c59x) Ethernet driver" 39.Sh SYNOPSIS --- 51 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 91There are not enough devices in the kernel configuration file for the number 92of adapters present in the system. 93Add devices to the configuration file, 94rebuild the kernel, and reboot. 95.El 96.Pp 97All other diagnostics indicate either a hardware problem or a bug in the 98driver. | 32.\" 33.Dd July 16, 2005 34.Dt VX 4 i386 35.Os 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm vx 38.Nd "3Com EtherLink III / Fast EtherLink III (3c59x) Ethernet driver" 39.Sh SYNOPSIS --- 51 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 91There are not enough devices in the kernel configuration file for the number 92of adapters present in the system. 93Add devices to the configuration file, 94rebuild the kernel, and reboot. 95.El 96.Pp 97All other diagnostics indicate either a hardware problem or a bug in the 98driver. |
| 99.Sh CAVEATS 100Some early-revision 3c590 cards are defective and suffer from many receive 101overruns, which cause lost packets. 102The author has attempted to implement 103a test for it based on the information supplied by 3Com, but the test resulted 104mostly in spurious warnings. 105.Pp 106The performance of this driver is somewhat limited by the fact that it uses 107only polled-mode I/O and does not make use of the bus-mastering capability 108of the cards. | |
| 109.Sh SEE ALSO 110.Xr arp 4 , 111.Xr netintro 4 , 112.Xr ng_ether 4 , 113.Xr ifconfig 8 114.Sh HISTORY 115The 116.Nm --- 6 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 123.An -nosplit 124The 125.Nm 126device driver and this manual page were written by 127.An Fred Gray Aq fgray@rice.edu , 128based on the work of 129.An Herb Peyerl 130and with the assistance of numerous others. | 99.Sh SEE ALSO 100.Xr arp 4 , 101.Xr netintro 4 , 102.Xr ng_ether 4 , 103.Xr ifconfig 8 104.Sh HISTORY 105The 106.Nm --- 6 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 113.An -nosplit 114The 115.Nm 116device driver and this manual page were written by 117.An Fred Gray Aq fgray@rice.edu , 118based on the work of 119.An Herb Peyerl 120and with the assistance of numerous others. |
| 121.Sh CAVEATS 122Some early-revision 3c590 cards are defective and suffer from many receive 123overruns, which cause lost packets. 124The author has attempted to implement 125a test for it based on the information supplied by 3Com, but the test resulted 126mostly in spurious warnings. 127.Pp 128The performance of this driver is somewhat limited by the fact that it uses 129only polled-mode I/O and does not make use of the bus-mastering capability 130of the cards. |
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| 131.Sh BUGS 132The 133.Nm 134driver is known not to reset the adapter correctly following a warm boot 135on some systems. 136.Pp 137The 138.Nm 139driver has not been exhaustively tested with all the models of cards that it 140claims to support. | 131.Sh BUGS 132The 133.Nm 134driver is known not to reset the adapter correctly following a warm boot 135on some systems. 136.Pp 137The 138.Nm 139driver has not been exhaustively tested with all the models of cards that it 140claims to support. |