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| 29.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/bce.4 251012 2013-05-26 18:57:59Z schweikh $ | 25.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/bce.4 265703 2014-05-08 19:40:37Z davidcs $ |
| 30.\" 31.Dd June 4, 2012 32.Dt BCE 4 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm bce | 26.\" 27.Dd June 4, 2012 28.Dt BCE 4 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm bce |
| 36.Nd "Broadcom NetXtreme II (BCM5706/5708/5709/5716) PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver" | 32.Nd "QLogic NetXtreme II (BCM5706/5708/5709/5716) PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver" |
| 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38To compile this driver into the kernel, 39place the following lines in your 40kernel configuration file: 41.Bd -ragged -offset indent 42.Cd "device miibus" 43.Cd "device bce" 44.Ed 45.Pp 46Alternatively, to load the driver as a 47module at boot time, place the following line in 48.Xr loader.conf 5 : 49.Bd -literal -offset indent 50if_bce_load="YES" 51.Ed 52.Sh DESCRIPTION 53The 54.Nm | 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34To compile this driver into the kernel, 35place the following lines in your 36kernel configuration file: 37.Bd -ragged -offset indent 38.Cd "device miibus" 39.Cd "device bce" 40.Ed 41.Pp 42Alternatively, to load the driver as a 43module at boot time, place the following line in 44.Xr loader.conf 5 : 45.Bd -literal -offset indent 46if_bce_load="YES" 47.Ed 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The 50.Nm |
| 55driver supports Broadcom's NetXtreme II product family, including the | 51driver supports QLogic's NetXtreme II product family, including the |
| 56BCM5706, BCM5708, BCM5709 and BCM5716 Ethernet controllers. 57.Pp 58The NetXtreme II product family is composed of various Converged NIC (or CNIC) 59Ethernet controllers which support a TCP Offload Engine (TOE), Remote DMA (RDMA), 60and iSCSI acceleration, in addition to standard L2 Ethernet traffic, all on the 61same controller. 62.Pp 63The following features are supported in the --- 72 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 136Force half duplex operation. 137.El 138.Pp 139For more information on configuring this device, see 140.Xr ifconfig 8 . 141.Sh HARDWARE 142The 143.Nm | 52BCM5706, BCM5708, BCM5709 and BCM5716 Ethernet controllers. 53.Pp 54The NetXtreme II product family is composed of various Converged NIC (or CNIC) 55Ethernet controllers which support a TCP Offload Engine (TOE), Remote DMA (RDMA), 56and iSCSI acceleration, in addition to standard L2 Ethernet traffic, all on the 57same controller. 58.Pp 59The following features are supported in the --- 72 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 132Force half duplex operation. 133.El 134.Pp 135For more information on configuring this device, see 136.Xr ifconfig 8 . 137.Sh HARDWARE 138The 139.Nm |
| 144driver provides support for various NICs based on the Broadcom NetXtreme II | 140driver provides support for various NICs based on the QLogic NetXtreme II |
| 145family of Gigabit Ethernet controllers, including the 146following: 147.Pp 148.Bl -bullet -compact 149.It | 141family of Gigabit Ethernet controllers, including the 142following: 143.Pp 144.Bl -bullet -compact 145.It |
| 150Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706 1000Base-SX | 146QLogic NetXtreme II BCM5706 1000Base-SX |
| 151.It | 147.It |
| 152Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706 1000Base-T | 148QLogic NetXtreme II BCM5706 1000Base-T |
| 153.It | 149.It |
| 154Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-SX | 150QLogic NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-SX |
| 155.It | 151.It |
| 156Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T | 152QLogic NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T |
| 157.It | 153.It |
| 158Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-SX | 154QLogic NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-SX |
| 159.It | 155.It |
| 160Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T | 156QLogic NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T |
| 161.It | 157.It |
| 162Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T | 158QLogic NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T |
| 163.It 164Dell PowerEdge 1950 integrated BCM5708 NIC 165.It 166Dell PowerEdge 2950 integrated BCM5708 NIC 167.It 168Dell PowerEdge R710 integrated BCM5709 NIC 169.It 170HP NC370F Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter --- 235 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 406.It "bce%d: Watchdog timeout occurred, resetting!" 407The device has stopped responding to the network, there is a problem 408with the cable connection, or a driver logic problem has occurred.. 409.It "bce%d: Fatal attention detected: 0x%08X!" 410A controller hardware failure has occurred. 411If the problem continues replace the controller. 412.El 413.Sh SUPPORT | 159.It 160Dell PowerEdge 1950 integrated BCM5708 NIC 161.It 162Dell PowerEdge 2950 integrated BCM5708 NIC 163.It 164Dell PowerEdge R710 integrated BCM5709 NIC 165.It 166HP NC370F Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter --- 235 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 402.It "bce%d: Watchdog timeout occurred, resetting!" 403The device has stopped responding to the network, there is a problem 404with the cable connection, or a driver logic problem has occurred.. 405.It "bce%d: Fatal attention detected: 0x%08X!" 406A controller hardware failure has occurred. 407If the problem continues replace the controller. 408.El 409.Sh SUPPORT |
| 414For general information and support, 415go to the Broadcom NIC Open Source Developer Resource Site: 416.Pa http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/open_source.php . | 410For support questions please contact your QLogic approved reseller or 411QLogic Technical Support at 412.Pa http://support.qlogic.com , 413or by E-mail at 414.Aq support@qlogic.com . |
| 417.Sh SEE ALSO 418.Xr altq 4 , 419.Xr arp 4 , 420.Xr miibus 4 , 421.Xr netintro 4 , 422.Xr ng_ether 4 , 423.Xr vlan 4 , 424.Xr ifconfig 8 425.Sh HISTORY 426The 427.Nm 428device driver first appeared in 429.Fx 6.1 . 430.Sh AUTHORS 431The 432.Nm 433driver was written by 434.An David Christensen Aq davidch@broadcom.com . | 415.Sh SEE ALSO 416.Xr altq 4 , 417.Xr arp 4 , 418.Xr miibus 4 , 419.Xr netintro 4 , 420.Xr ng_ether 4 , 421.Xr vlan 4 , 422.Xr ifconfig 8 423.Sh HISTORY 424The 425.Nm 426device driver first appeared in 427.Fx 6.1 . 428.Sh AUTHORS 429The 430.Nm 431driver was written by 432.An David Christensen Aq davidch@broadcom.com . |