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31 .Nd Ethernet driver for Texas Instruments ThunderLAN based board
33 .Cd "tl* at pci? dev ? function ?"
35 Configuration of PHYs is necessary.
41 device driver supports network adapters based on
42 the Texas Instruments ThunderLAN chip.
44 Supported cards include:
46 .Bl -tag -width xxxxxx -offset indent
47 .It Compaq Netelligent
50 variants (10BASE-T-only variant untested).
51 .It Compaq NetFlex 3/P
52 in baseboard variant only (the
54 variant doesn't use the same chip!).
55 .It \&It Baseboard Compaq Deskpro 4000 5233MMX Ethernet
56 (This has been tested on the Deskpro 4000M only).
57 .It TI TravelMate 5000 series laptop docking station's Ethernet board .
60 The different models of the supported boards come with some subset of RJ-45,
61 BNC and AUI connectors.
62 Media selection is done using
67 Refer to those manual pages for more information.
71 driver doesn't have full automatic media selection.
72 By default it will do an Nway
74 negotiation on the 10BASE-T port for the speed and duplex mode with the
76 If the AUI or BNC port is used, an explicit media type must be
87 The board marked as untested will always claim having an AUI connector, where