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34.Dd February 20, 2005
35.Dt GEM 4
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm gem
39.Nd ERI/GEM/GMAC Ethernet device driver
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Cd "gem* at pci? dev ? function ?"
42.Pp
43Configuration of PHYs may also be necessary.
44See
45.Xr mii 4 .
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Nm
49driver provides support for the GMac Ethernet hardware found mostly in
50the last Apple PowerBooks G3s and most G4-based Apple hardware, as
51well as many Sun UltraSPARCs.
52.Pp
53Cards supported by this driver include:
54.Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent
55.It
56Sun GEM gigabit ethernet
57.It
58Sun ERI 10/100
59.It
60Apple GMAC
61.El
62.Pp
63The GEM family supports hardware checksumming to assist in computing
64IPv4 TCP/UDP checksums.
65The
66.Nm
67driver supports this feature of the chip.
68See
69.Xr ifconfig 8
70for information on how to enable this feature.
71.Sh SEE ALSO
72.Xr bm 4 ,
73.Xr de 4 ,
74.Xr hme 4 ,
75.Xr mc 4 ,
76.Xr mii 4 ,
77.Xr tlp 4
78.Sh HISTORY
79The
80.Nm
81device driver appeared in
82.Nx 1.6 .
83.Sh AUTHORS
84.An -nosplit
85The
86.Nm
87driver was written by
88.An Eduardo Horvath
89.Aq eeh@NetBSD.org .
90The man page was written by
91.An Thomas Klausner
92.Aq wiz@NetBSD.org .
93