NFE(4) |
Kernel Interfaces Manual |
NFE(4) |
NAME
nfe — NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet driver
SYNOPSIS
nfe* at pci?
ciphy* at mii?
icsphy* at mii?
makphy* at mii?
rlphy* at mii?
DESCRIPTION
The
nfe driver supports PCI Ethernet adapters based on the NVIDIA nForce Media and Communications Processors (MCP), such as the nForce, nForce 2, nForce 3, CK804, MCP04, MCP51, MCP55, MCP61, MCP65, MCP67 and MCP73 Ethernet controller chips.
The nfe driver supports the following media types:
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autoselect
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Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
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10baseT
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Set 10Mbps operation.
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100baseTX
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Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
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1000baseT
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Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation (recent models only).
HISTORY
The nfe device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 3.9. It was added to NetBSD 3.1.
AUTHORS
The nfe driver was written by Jonathan Gray <jsg@openbsd.org> and Damien Bergamini <damien@openbsd.org>.
CAVEATS
NVIDIA refuse to release any documentation on their products.