1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Tom Rhodes 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 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 14.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 15.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 17.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 18.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 19.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 20.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 21.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 22.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 23.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 24.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\"
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26.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/xe.4 148145 2005-07-19 00:26:30Z trhodes $
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26.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/xe.4 148220 2005-07-21 05:02:39Z trhodes $ |
27.\" 28.Dd July 16, 2005 29.Dt XE 4 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm xe 33.Nd "Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet device driver" 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35To compile support for the 36.Nm
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37driver into your kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:
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37driver into your kernel, place the following line in your 38kernel configuration file: |
39.Bd -ragged -offset indent 40.Cd "device xe" 41.Ed 42.Pp 43Alternatively, to load the 44.Nm 45driver at boot time, place the following line in 46.Xr loader.conf 5 : 47.Bd -literal -offset indent 48if_xe_load="YES" 49.Ed 50.Sh DESCRIPTION 51The 52.Nm 53driver supports 54.Tn PCMCIA 55Ethernet adapters based on Xircom CE2- and CE3-class hardware. 56This includes devices made by Xircom along with 57various 58.Tn OEM 59manufacturers. 60.Pp 61Please note that the 62.Nm 63driver only supports 64.Tn PCMCIA 65cards and their Ethernet functions. 66.Nm 67does not support the on-board modem device located on some 68version of the Ethernet/modem combo cards. 69In particular, Xircom RealPort2 cards are not supported by this driver. 70.Pp 71The 72.Nm 73driver supports the following media types: 74.Bl -tag -width ".Cm autoselect" 75.It Cm autoselect 76Enable autoselection of media type and options. 77.It Cm 10Base2/BNC 78Select 10Mbps operation on a BNC coaxial connector. 79.It Cm 10BaseT/UTP 80Select 10Mbps operation on a RJ-45 connector. 81.It Cm 100BaseTX 82Select 100Mbps operation. 83.El 84.Pp 85Note that 100BaseTX operation is not available on CE2-class cards, 86while the 10Base2/BNC mode is only available on CE2-class cards. 87Full-duplex 88operation is currently not supported. 89For more information on configuring network interface devices, 90see 91.Xr ifconfig 8 . 92.Sh HARDWARE 93The 94.Nm 95driver supports the following cards: 96.Pp 97.Bl -bullet -compact 98.It 99Xircom CreditCard Ethernet (PS-CE2-10) 100.It 101Xircom CreditCard Ethernet + Modem 28 (PS-CEM-28) 102.It 103Xircom CreditCard Ethernet + Modem 33 (CEM33) 104.It 105Xircom CreditCard 10/100 (CE3, CE3B) 106.It 107Xircom CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56 (CEM56) 108.It 109Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10 (RE10) 110.It 111Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100 (RE100) 112.It 113Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56 (REM56, REM56G) 114.It 115Accton Fast EtherCard-16 (EN2226) 116.It 117Compaq Microcom CPQ550 Ethernet/Modem PC Card 118.It 119Compaq Netelligent 10/100 PC Card (CPQ-10/100) 120.It 121Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 PC Card Mobile Adapter 16 (Pro/100 M16A) 122.It 123Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 LAN/Modem PC Card Adapter (Pro/100 M16B) 124.El 125.Pp 126Other similar devices using the same hardware may also be supported. 127.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 128.Bl -diag 129.It "xe%d: Cannot allocate ioport" 130.It "xe%d: Cannot allocate irq" 131A fatal initialization error occurred while attempting to allocate 132system resources for the card. 133.It "xe%d: Unable to fix your %s combo card" 134A fatal initialization error occurred while attempting to attach an 135Ethernet/modem combo card. 136.It "xe%d: watchdog timeout: resetting card" 137The card failed to generate an interrupt acknowledging a 138transmitted packet. 139May indicate a 140.Tn PCMCIA 141configuration problem. 142.It "xe%d: no carrier" 143The card has lost all contact with the network; this 144usually indicates a cable problem. 145.El 146.Sh SEE ALSO 147.Xr pccard 4 , 148.Xr ifconfig 8 149.Sh HISTORY 150The 151.Nm 152driver first appeared in 153.Fx 3.3 . 154.Sh AUTHORS 155.An -nosplit 156The 157.Nm 158device driver was written by 159.An Scott Mitchell Aq rsm@FreeBSD.org . 160This manual page was written by 161.An Scott Mitchell Aq rsm@FreeBSD.org , 162and 163.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org . 164.Sh BUGS 165Supported devices will fail to attach on some machines using the 166.Tn NEWCARD 167.Tn PC 168Card framework. 169.Pp 170Automatic media selection is usually unreliable.
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