| re.4 (154362) | re.4 (159962) |
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| 1.\" Copyright (c) 2003 2.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@windriver.com>. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. --- 14 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 23.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 24.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 25.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 26.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 27.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 28.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF 29.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" | 1.\" Copyright (c) 2003 2.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@windriver.com>. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. --- 14 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 23.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 24.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 25.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 26.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 27.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 28.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF 29.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" |
| 31.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/re.4 154362 2006-01-14 15:35:21Z bz $ | 31.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/re.4 159962 2006-06-26 20:31:32Z wpaul $ |
| 32.\" 33.Dd January 14, 2006 34.Dt RE 4 35.Os 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm re | 32.\" 33.Dd January 14, 2006 34.Dt RE 4 35.Os 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm re |
| 38.Nd "RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S PCI Ethernet adapter driver" | 38.Nd "RealTek 8139C+/8169/816xS/811xS/8101E PCI/PCIe Ethernet adapter driver" |
| 39.Sh SYNOPSIS 40To compile this driver into the kernel, 41place the following lines in your 42kernel configuration file: 43.Bd -ragged -offset indent 44.Cd "device miibus" 45.Cd "device re" 46.Ed 47.Pp 48Alternatively, to load the driver as a 49module at boot time, place the following line in 50.Xr loader.conf 5 : 51.Bd -literal -offset indent 52if_re_load="YES" 53.Ed 54.Sh DESCRIPTION 55The 56.Nm 57driver provides support for various NICs based on the RealTek RTL8139C+, | 39.Sh SYNOPSIS 40To compile this driver into the kernel, 41place the following lines in your 42kernel configuration file: 43.Bd -ragged -offset indent 44.Cd "device miibus" 45.Cd "device re" 46.Ed 47.Pp 48Alternatively, to load the driver as a 49module at boot time, place the following line in 50.Xr loader.conf 5 : 51.Bd -literal -offset indent 52if_re_load="YES" 53.Ed 54.Sh DESCRIPTION 55The 56.Nm 57driver provides support for various NICs based on the RealTek RTL8139C+, |
| 58RTL8169, RTL8169S and RTL8110S PCI Ethernet controllers. | 58RTL8169, RTL8169S, RTL8110S, RTL8168S, RTL8111S and RTL8101E PCI and 59PCIe Ethernet controllers. |
| 59.Pp | 60.Pp |
| 60NICs based on the 8139C+ are capable of 10 and 100Mbps speeds over CAT5 61cable. 62NICs based on the 8169, 8169S and 8110S are capable of 10, 100 and | 61NICs based on the 8139C+ and 8101E are capable of 10 and 100Mbps speeds 62over CAT5 cable. 63NICs based on the 8169, 816xS and 811xS are capable of 10, 100 and |
| 631000Mbps operation. 64.Pp 65All NICs supported by the 66.Nm 67driver have TCP/IP checksum offload and hardware VLAN tagging/insertion 68features, and use a descriptor-based DMA mechanism. 69They are also 70capable of TCP large send (TCP segmentation offload). --- 67 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 138Force half duplex operation. 139.El 140.Pp 141For more information on configuring this device, see 142.Xr ifconfig 8 . 143.Sh HARDWARE 144The 145.Nm | 641000Mbps operation. 65.Pp 66All NICs supported by the 67.Nm 68driver have TCP/IP checksum offload and hardware VLAN tagging/insertion 69features, and use a descriptor-based DMA mechanism. 70They are also 71capable of TCP large send (TCP segmentation offload). --- 67 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 139Force half duplex operation. 140.El 141.Pp 142For more information on configuring this device, see 143.Xr ifconfig 8 . 144.Sh HARDWARE 145The 146.Nm |
| 146driver supports RealTek RTL8139C+, RTL8169, RTL8169S and RTL8110S 147based Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet adapters including: | 147driver supports RealTek RTL8139C+, RTL8169, RTL816xS, RTL811xS, 148and RTL8101E based Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet adapters including: |
| 148.Pp 149.Bl -bullet -compact 150.It 151Alloy Computer Products EtherGOLD 1439E 10/100 (8139C+) 152.It 153Compaq Evo N1015v Integrated Ethernet (8139C+) 154.It 155Corega CG-LAPCIGT Gigabit Ethernet (8169S) --- 86 unchanged lines hidden --- | 149.Pp 150.Bl -bullet -compact 151.It 152Alloy Computer Products EtherGOLD 1439E 10/100 (8139C+) 153.It 154Compaq Evo N1015v Integrated Ethernet (8139C+) 155.It 156Corega CG-LAPCIGT Gigabit Ethernet (8169S) --- 86 unchanged lines hidden --- |