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34.Dd September 27, 2001
34.Dd July 4, 2004
35.Dt BGE 4
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm bge
39.Nd "Broadcom BCM570x PCI gigabit ethernet adapter driver"
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Cd "device miibus"
42.Cd "device bge"
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The
45.Nm
46driver provides support for various NICs based on the Broadcom BCM570x
35.Dt BGE 4
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm bge
39.Nd "Broadcom BCM570x PCI gigabit ethernet adapter driver"
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Cd "device miibus"
42.Cd "device bge"
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The
45.Nm
46driver provides support for various NICs based on the Broadcom BCM570x
47family of gigabit ethernet controller chips, including the
48following:
47family of gigabit ethernet controller chips.
49.Pp
48.Pp
50.Bl -bullet -compact
51.It
523Com 3c996-T (10/100/1000baseTX)
53.It
54Dell PowerEdge 1750 integrated BCM5704C NIC (10/100/1000baseTX)
55.It
56Dell PowerEdge 2550 integrated BCM5700 NIC (10/100/1000baseTX)
57.It
58Dell PowerEdge 2650 integrated BCM5703 NIC (10/100/1000baseTX)
59.It
60IBM x235 server integrated BCM5703x NIC (10/100/1000baseTX)
61.It
62HP ProLiant NC7760 embedded Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseTX)
63.It
64HP ProLiant NC7770 PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseTX)
65.It
66HP ProLiant NC7781 embedded PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseTX)
67.It
68Netgear GA302T (10/100/1000baseTX)
69.It
70SysKonnect SK-9D21 (10/100/1000baseTX)
71.It
72SysKonnect SK-9D41 (1000baseSX)
73.El
74.Pp
75All of these NICs are capable of 10, 100 and 1000Mbps speeds over CAT5
76copper cable, except for the SysKonnect SK-9D41 which supports only
771000Mbps over multimode fiber.
78The BCM570x builds upon the technology of the Alteon Tigon II.
79It has two R4000 CPU cores and is PCI v2.2 and PCI-X v1.0 compliant.
80It supports IP, TCP
81and UDP checksum offload for both receive and transmit,
82multiple RX and TX DMA rings for QoS applications, rules-based

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174.Cm link0
175flag with
176.Xr ifconfig 8
177will set a port as a master instead.
178.El
179.Pp
180For more information on configuring this device, see
181.Xr ifconfig 8 .
49All of these NICs are capable of 10, 100 and 1000Mbps speeds over CAT5
50copper cable, except for the SysKonnect SK-9D41 which supports only
511000Mbps over multimode fiber.
52The BCM570x builds upon the technology of the Alteon Tigon II.
53It has two R4000 CPU cores and is PCI v2.2 and PCI-X v1.0 compliant.
54It supports IP, TCP
55and UDP checksum offload for both receive and transmit,
56multiple RX and TX DMA rings for QoS applications, rules-based

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148.Cm link0
149flag with
150.Xr ifconfig 8
151will set a port as a master instead.
152.El
153.Pp
154For more information on configuring this device, see
155.Xr ifconfig 8 .
156.Sh HARDWARE
157The
158.Nm
159driver provides support for various NICs based on the Broadcom BCM570x
160family of gigabit ethernet controller chips, including the
161following:
162.Pp
163.Bl -bullet -compact
164.It
1653Com 3c996-T (10/100/1000baseTX)
166.It
167Dell PowerEdge 1750 integrated BCM5704C NIC (10/100/1000baseTX)
168.It
169Dell PowerEdge 2550 integrated BCM5700 NIC (10/100/1000baseTX)
170.It
171Dell PowerEdge 2650 integrated BCM5703 NIC (10/100/1000baseTX)
172.It
173IBM x235 server integrated BCM5703x NIC (10/100/1000baseTX)
174.It
175HP ProLiant NC7760 embedded Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseTX)
176.It
177HP ProLiant NC7770 PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseTX)
178.It
179HP ProLiant NC7781 embedded PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseTX)
180.It
181Netgear GA302T (10/100/1000baseTX)
182.It
183SysKonnect SK-9D21 (10/100/1000baseTX)
184.It
185SysKonnect SK-9D41 (1000baseSX)
186.El
182.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
183.Bl -diag
184.It "bge%d: couldn't map memory"
185A fatal initialization error has occurred.
186.It "bge%d: couldn't map ports"
187A fatal initialization error has occurred.
188.It "bge%d: couldn't map interrupt"
189A fatal initialization error has occurred.

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187.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
188.Bl -diag
189.It "bge%d: couldn't map memory"
190A fatal initialization error has occurred.
191.It "bge%d: couldn't map ports"
192A fatal initialization error has occurred.
193.It "bge%d: couldn't map interrupt"
194A fatal initialization error has occurred.

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