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44 .Nd Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver
46 To compile this driver into the kernel,
47 place the following lines in your
48 kernel configuration file:
49 .Bd -ragged -offset indent
54 Alternatively, to load the driver as a
55 module at boot time, place the following line in
57 .Bd -literal -offset indent
63 device driver provides support for various NICs based on the
64 Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet controller chip.
66 The Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 is found on the D-Link DGE-550T
67 and the Antares Microsystems Gigabit Ethernet board.
68 It uses an external PHY or an external 10-bit interface.
70 All NICs supported by the
72 driver have TCP/UDP/IP checksum offload for both receive and
73 transmit, hardware VLAN tag stripping/insertion features, and
74 receive interrupt moderation mechanism as well as a 64-bit
75 multicast hash filter.
76 The Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 supports TBI (ten bit interface)
77 and GMII transceivers, which means it can be used with either
78 copper or 1000baseX fiber applications.
80 The Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 also supports jumbo frames, which can be
81 configured via the interface MTU setting.
82 Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the
84 utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit jumbo frames.
88 driver supports the following media types:
89 .Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP"
91 Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
92 The user can manually override
93 the autoselected mode by adding media options to
100 option can also be used to select either
106 Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
110 option can also be used to select either
116 Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair.
117 The Sundance/Tamarack supports 1000Mbps in
120 .\" .It Cm 1000baseSX
121 .\" Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
126 .\" modes are supported.
131 driver supports the following media options:
132 .Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex"
134 Force full duplex operation.
136 Force half duplex operation.
141 driver also supports one special link option for 1000baseTX cards:
142 .Bl -tag -width ".Cm link0"
144 With 1000baseTX cards, establishing a link between two ports requires
145 that one port is configured as master and the other one as slave.
146 With autonegotiation,
147 the master/slave settings will be chosen automatically.
148 However when manually selecting the link state, it is necessary to
149 force one side of the link to be a master and the other a slave.
152 driver configures the ports as slaves by default.
157 will set a port as a master instead.
160 For more information on configuring this device, see
165 driver provides support for various NICs based on the Sundance/Tamarack
166 TC9021 based Gigabit Ethernet controller chips, including:
170 Antares Microsystems Gigabit Ethernet
172 ASUS NX1101 Gigabit Ethernet
174 D-Link DL-4000 Gigabit Ethernet
176 IC Plus IP1000A Gigabit Ethernet
178 Sundance ST-2021 Gigabit Ethernet
180 Sundance ST-2023 Gigabit Ethernet
182 Sundance TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet
184 Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet
187 The following variables are available as both
192 .Bl -tag -width indent
193 .It Va dev.stge.%d.rxint_nframe
194 Number of frames between RxDMAComplete interrupts.
195 The accepted range is 1 to 255, default value is 8 frames.
196 The interface has to be brought down and up again before a change takes effect.
197 .It Va dev.stge.%d.rxint_dmawait
198 Maximum amount of time to wait in 1us increments before issuing
199 an Rx interrupt if the number of frames received is less than
201 The accepted range is 0 to 4194, default value is 30 microseconds.
202 The interface has to be brought down and up again before a change takes effect.
216 driver was ported from
218 and first appeared in
222 version was written by
224 .Aq thorpej@NetBSD.org .
230 .Aq yongari@FreeBSD.org .