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if_nge(4)

NAME

     nge -- National Semiconductor PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver

SYNOPSIS

     device miibus
     device nge

DESCRIPTION

     The nge driver provides support for various NICs based on the National
     Semiconductor DP83820 and DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet controller chips.

     The DP83820 supports TBI (ten bit interface) and GMII transceivers, which
     means it can be used with either copper or 1000baseX fiber applications.
     The DP83820 supports TCP/IP checksum offload and VLAN tagging/insertion
     as well as a 2048-bit multicast hash filter and up to 4 pattern match
     buffers.

     Most cards also use the DP83861 10/100/1000 copper gigabit transceiver
     chip, which supports autonegotiation of 10, 100 and 1000Mbps modes in
     full or half duplex.

     The DP83820 also supports jumbo frames, which can be configured via the
     interface MTU setting.  Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the
     ifconfig(8) utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit jumbo
     frames.  Using jumbo frames can greatly improve performance for certain
     tasks, such as file transfers and data streaming.

     The nge driver supports the following media types:

     autoselect   Enable autoselection of the media type and options.  The
		  user can manually override the autoselected mode by adding
		  media options to rc.conf(5).

     10baseT/UTP  Set 10Mbps operation.  The ifconfig(8) mediaopt option can
		  also be used to select either full-duplex or half-duplex
		  modes.

     100baseTX	  Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.  The ifconfig(8)
		  mediaopt option can also be used to select either
		  full-duplex or half-duplex modes.

     1000baseTX   Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair.  full-duplex and
		  half-duplex modes are supported.

     1000baseSX   Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.  Both full-duplex
		  and half-duplex modes are supported.

     The nge driver supports the following media options:

     full-duplex  Force full duplex operation.

     half-duplex  Force half duplex operation.

     The nge driver also supports one special link option for 1000baseTX
     cards:

     link0  With 1000baseTX cards, establishing a link between two ports
     For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).

HARDWARE

     The nge driver supports National Semiconductor DP83820 and DP83821 based
     Gigabit Ethernet adapters including:

     o	 SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX)
     o	 D-Link DGE-500T
     o	 Asante FriendlyNet GigaNIX 1000TA and 1000TPC
     o	 Addtron AEG320T
     o	 LinkSys EG1032 (32-bit PCI) and EG1064 (64-bit PCI)
     o	 Surecom Technology EP-320G-TX
     o	 Netgear GA622T
     o	 Netgear GA621
     o	 Ark PC SOHO-GA2500T (32-bit PCI) and SOHO-GA2000T (64-bit PCI)
     o	 Trendware TEG-PCITX (32-bit PCI) and TEG-PCITX2 (64-bit PCI)

DIAGNOSTICS

     nge%d: couldn't map memory  A fatal initialization error has occurred.

     nge%d: couldn't map ports	A fatal initialization error has occurred.

     nge%d: couldn't map interrupt  A fatal initialization error has occurred.

     nge%d: no memory for softc struct!  The driver failed to allocate memory
     for per-device instance information during initialization.

     nge%d: failed to enable memory mapping!  The driver failed to initialize
     PCI shared memory mapping.  This might happen if the card is not in a
     bus-master slot.

     nge%d: no memory for jumbo buffers!  The driver failed to allocate memory
     for jumbo frames during initialization.

     nge%d: watchdog timeout  The device has stopped responding to the net-
     work, or there is a problem with the network connection (cable).

SEE ALSO

     arp(4), miibus(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), polling(4), vlan(4),
     ifconfig(8)

     National Semiconductor DP83820 datasheet, http://www.national.com.

     National Semiconductor DP83861 datasheet, http://www.national.com.

HISTORY

     The nge device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.4.

AUTHORS

     The nge driver was written by Bill Paul <wpaul@bsdi.com>.

FreeBSD 5.4		       November 24, 2004		   FreeBSD 5.4

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