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2.\" Copyright (c) 1996, Fred Gray
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15.\" This product includes software developed by David Greenman.
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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:
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12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
13.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
14.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
15.\" This product includes software developed by David Greenman.
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31.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/man4.i386/vx.4 119559 2003-08-29 17:59:01Z simon $
| 31.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/man4.i386/vx.4 131530 2004-07-03 18:29:24Z ru $
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32.\"
33.Dd January 15, 1996
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
40.Cd "device vx"
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The
43.Nm
44driver provides support for the 3Com
45.Dq Vortex
46chipset.
47The following Ethernet adapters are supported:
48.Pp
49.Bl -bullet -compact
50.It
513Com 3c590 EtherLink III PCI
52.It
533Com 3c592 EtherLink III EISA
54.It
553Com 3c595 Fast EtherLink III PCI in 10 Mbps mode
56.It
573Com 3c597 Fast EtherLink III EISA in 10 Mbps mode
58.El
59.Pp
60The medium selection
61can be influenced by the following link flags to the
62.Xr ifconfig 8
63command:
64.Pp
65.Bl -tag -width LINK0X -compact
66.It Em link0
67Use the AUI port.
68.It Em link1
69Use the BNC port.
70.It Em link2
71Use the UTP port.
72.El
73.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
74.Bl -diag
75.It "vx%d: not configured; kernel is built for only %d devices."
76There are not enough devices in the kernel configuration file for the number
| 32.\"
33.Dd January 15, 1996
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
40.Cd "device vx"
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The
43.Nm
44driver provides support for the 3Com
45.Dq Vortex
46chipset.
47The following Ethernet adapters are supported:
48.Pp
49.Bl -bullet -compact
50.It
513Com 3c590 EtherLink III PCI
52.It
533Com 3c592 EtherLink III EISA
54.It
553Com 3c595 Fast EtherLink III PCI in 10 Mbps mode
56.It
573Com 3c597 Fast EtherLink III EISA in 10 Mbps mode
58.El
59.Pp
60The medium selection
61can be influenced by the following link flags to the
62.Xr ifconfig 8
63command:
64.Pp
65.Bl -tag -width LINK0X -compact
66.It Em link0
67Use the AUI port.
68.It Em link1
69Use the BNC port.
70.It Em link2
71Use the UTP port.
72.El
73.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
74.Bl -diag
75.It "vx%d: not configured; kernel is built for only %d devices."
76There are not enough devices in the kernel configuration file for the number
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77of adapters present in the system. Add devices to the configuration file,
| 77of adapters present in the system.
78Add devices to the configuration file,
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78rebuild the kernel, and reboot.
79.El
80.Pp
81All other diagnostics indicate either a hardware problem or a bug in the
82driver.
83.Sh CAVEATS
84Some early-revision 3c590 cards are defective and suffer from many receive
| 79rebuild the kernel, and reboot.
80.El
81.Pp
82All other diagnostics indicate either a hardware problem or a bug in the
83driver.
84.Sh CAVEATS
85Some early-revision 3c590 cards are defective and suffer from many receive
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85overruns, which cause lost packets. The author has attempted to implement
| 86overruns, which cause lost packets.
87The author has attempted to implement
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86a test for it based on the information supplied by 3Com, but the test resulted
87mostly in spurious warnings.
88.Pp
89The performance of this driver is somewhat limited by the fact that it uses
90only polled-mode I/O and does not make use of the bus-mastering capability
91of the cards.
92.Sh BUGS
93The
94.Nm
95driver is known not to reset the adapter correctly following a warm boot
96on some systems.
97.Pp
98The
99.Nm
100driver has not been exhaustively tested with all the models of cards that it
101claims to support.
102.Sh SEE ALSO
103.Xr arp 4 ,
104.Xr netintro 4 ,
105.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
106.Xr ifconfig 8
107.Sh HISTORY
108The
109.Nm
110device driver first appeared in
111.Fx 2.1 .
112It was derived from the
113.Nm ep
114driver, from which it inherits most of its limitations.
115.Sh AUTHORS
116.An -nosplit
117The
118.Nm
119device driver and this manual page were written by
120.An Fred Gray Aq fgray@rice.edu ,
121based on the work of
122.An Herb Peyerl
123and with the assistance of numerous others.
| 88a test for it based on the information supplied by 3Com, but the test resulted
89mostly in spurious warnings.
90.Pp
91The performance of this driver is somewhat limited by the fact that it uses
92only polled-mode I/O and does not make use of the bus-mastering capability
93of the cards.
94.Sh BUGS
95The
96.Nm
97driver is known not to reset the adapter correctly following a warm boot
98on some systems.
99.Pp
100The
101.Nm
102driver has not been exhaustively tested with all the models of cards that it
103claims to support.
104.Sh SEE ALSO
105.Xr arp 4 ,
106.Xr netintro 4 ,
107.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
108.Xr ifconfig 8
109.Sh HISTORY
110The
111.Nm
112device driver first appeared in
113.Fx 2.1 .
114It was derived from the
115.Nm ep
116driver, from which it inherits most of its limitations.
117.Sh AUTHORS
118.An -nosplit
119The
120.Nm
121device driver and this manual page were written by
122.An Fred Gray Aq fgray@rice.edu ,
123based on the work of
124.An Herb Peyerl
125and with the assistance of numerous others.
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