Copyright (c) 1994, Wilko Bulte
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$Id: ie.4,v 1.4 1997/02/22 13:25:29 peter Exp $
.Dd September 23, 1994 .Dt IE 4 i386 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm ie .Nd ethernet device driver .Sh SYNOPSIS .Cd "device ie0 at isa? port 0x360 net irq 7 iomem 0xd0000 vector ieintr" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm ie driver provides support for 8 and 16bit ISA ethernet cards that are based on the Intel i82586 chip. It supports the AT&T Starlan 10 and Starlan Fiber, the EN100, the 3COM 3C507 and the RACAL Interlan NI5210.
p .Sh DIAGNOSTICS l -diag t "ie%d: unknown board type code %d" An i82586 chip was found, but the driver was unable to determine the actual board type during the probe. t "ie%d: kernel configured maddr %x doesn't match board configured maddr %x" The device probe detected a different maddr than the one specified in the kernel configuration file. t "ie%d: can't find shared memory" The device probe could not access the shared memory to determine its size. t "ie%d: kernel configured msize %d doesn't match board configured msize %d" The device probe found a different size for the shared memory than the one specified in the kernel configuration file. t "ie%d: kernel configured irq %d doesn't match board configured irq %d" The device probe detected that the board is configured for a different interrupt than the one specified in the kernel configuration file. t "ie%d: reset" The Intel i82586 had to be reset by the driver. t "ie%d: transceiver problem" The driver has detected a problem with the ethernet transceiver. This is usually due to a loose or broken transceiver cable when using an external transceiver. When you experience this problem with an on-card transceiver your card may be incorrectly jumpered for to use an external transceiver. Worst case your on-board transceiver may be broken. t "ie%d: TDR detected an open %d clocks away" The driver detected an open circuit in the ethernet cable. Check your coax cable and terminator resistors. t "ie%d: TDR detected a short %d clocks away" The driver detected a short circuit in the ethernet cable. Check your coax cable and terminator resistors. t "ie%d: TDR returned unknown status %x" The driver got an unknown status from the card during the ethernet cable test. t "ie%d: multicast address setup command failed" The card could not be put into multicast mode. t "ie%d: configure command failed" The card refused to respond correctly during configuration. t "ie%d: individual address setup command failed" The programming of the Ethernet (MAC) address failed. .El .Sh CAVEATS The Racal Interlan NI5210 comes in variants with 8 and 16 kbytes of shared memory. It is strongly advisable to use the 16 kbyte variant. You can upgrade your 8 kbyte card to 16 kbyte by adding an additional RAM chip.
p .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr arp 4 , .Xr netintro 4 , .Xr ifconfig 8 .Sh AUTHORS The .Nm device driver was written by .An Garrett A. Wollman , based on code by .An William F. Jolitz and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories. .Tn 3C507 support was written by .An Charles M. Hannum . This manual page was written by .An Wilko C. Bulte .