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68.Dd January 23, 2005
69.Dt SK 4
70.Os
71.Sh NAME
72.Nm sk ,
73.Nm skc
74.Nd SysKonnect XMAC II and Marvell GMAC based gigabit ethernet
75.Sh SYNOPSIS
76.Cd "skc* at pci? dev ? function ?"
77.Cd "sk* at skc?"
78.Sh DESCRIPTION
79The
80.Nm sk
81driver provides support for SysKonnect based gigabit ethernet adapters
82and Marvell based gigabit ethernet adapters, including the following:
83.Pp
84.Bl -bullet -offset indent -compact
85.It
86SK-9821 SK-NET GE-T single port, copper adapter
87.It
88SK-9822 SK-NET GE-T dual port, copper adapter
89.It
90SK-9841 SK-NET GE-LX single port, single mode fiber adapter
91.It
92SK-9842 SK-NET GE-LX dual port, single mode fiber adapter
93.It
94SK-9843 SK-NET GE-SX single port, multimode fiber adapter
95.It
96SK-9844 SK-NET GE-SX dual port, multimode fiber adapter
97.It
98SK-9521 V2.0 single port, copper adapter (32-bit)
99.It
100SK-9821 V2.0 single port, copper adapter
101.It
102SK-9843 V2.0 single port, copper adapter
103.It
1043Com 3c940 single port, copper adapter
105.It
106Belkin Gigabit Desktop Network PCI Card, single port, copper (32-bit)
107.It
108D-Link DGE-530T single port, copper adapter
109.It
110Linksys EG1032v2 single-port, copper adapter
111.It
112Linksys EG1064v2 single-port, copper adapter
113.El
114.Pp
115The SysKonnect based adapters consist of two main components: the
116XaQti Corp. XMAC II Gigabit MAC
117.Pq Nm sk
118and the SysKonnect GEnesis controller ASIC
119.Pq Nm skc .
120The XMAC provides the Gigabit MAC and PHY support
121while the GEnesis provides an interface to the PCI bus, DMA support,
122packet buffering and arbitration.
123The GEnesis can control up to two XMACs simultaneously,
124allowing dual-port NIC configurations.
125.Pp
126The Marvell based adapters are a single integrated circuit, but are
127still presented as a separate MAC
128.Pq Nm sk
129and controller ASIC
130.Pq Nm skc .
131At this time, there are no dual-port Marvell based NICs.
132.Pp
133The
134.Nm
135driver configures dual port SysKonnect adapters such that each XMAC
136is treated as a separate logical network interface.
137Both ports can operate independently of each other and can be connected
138to separate networks.
139The SysKonnect driver software currently only uses the second port on
140dual port adapters for failover purposes: if the link
141on the primary port fails, the SysKonnect driver will automatically
142switch traffic onto the second port.
143.Pp
144The XaQti XMAC II supports full and half duplex operation with
145autonegotiation.
146The XMAC also supports unlimited frame sizes.
147Support for jumbo frames is provided via the interface MTU setting.
148Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the
149.Xr ifconfig 8
150utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit jumbo frames.
151Using jumbo frames can greatly improve performance for certain tasks,
152such as file transfers and data streaming.
153.Pp
154Hardware TCP/IP checksum offloading for IPv4 is supported.
155.Pp
156The following media types and options (as given to
157.Xr ifconfig 8 )
158are supported:
159.Bl -tag -width xxx -offset indent
160.It Cm media No autoselect
161Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
162The user can manually override
163the autoselected mode.
164.\" by adding media options to the appropriate
165.\" .Xr hostname.if 5
166.\" file.
167.It Cm media No 1000baseSX Cm mediaopt No full-duplex
168Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation on fiber and force full-duplex mode.
169.It Cm media No 1000baseSX Cm mediaopt No half-duplex
170Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation on fiber and force half-duplex mode.
171.It Cm media No 1000baseT Cm mediaopt No full-duplex
172Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation and force full-duplex mode.
173.El
174.Pp
175For more information on configuring this device, see
176.Xr ifconfig 8 .
177To view a list of media types and options supported by the card, try
178.Ic ifconfig Fl m Aq device .
179For example,
180.Ic ifconfig Fl m Ar sk0 .
181.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
182.Bl -diag
183.It "sk%d: couldn't map memory"
184A fatal initialization error has occurred.
185.It "sk%d: couldn't map ports"
186A fatal initialization error has occurred.
187.It "sk%d: couldn't map interrupt"
188A fatal initialization error has occurred.
189.It "sk%d: failed to enable memory mapping!"
190The driver failed to initialize PCI shared memory mapping.
191This might happen if the card is not in a bus-master slot.
192.It "sk%d: no memory for jumbo buffers!"
193The driver failed to allocate memory for jumbo frames during
194initialization.
195.It "sk%d: watchdog timeout"
196The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with
197the network connection (cable).
198.El
199.Sh SEE ALSO
200.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
201.Xr intro 4 ,
202.Xr netintro 4 ,
203.Xr pci 4 ,
204.Xr ifconfig 8
205.Rs
206.%T XaQti XMAC II datasheet
207.%O http://www.xaqti.com
208.Re
209.Rs
210.%T SysKonnect GEnesis programming manual
211.%O http://www.syskonnect.com
212.Re
213.Sh HISTORY
214The
215.Nm
216device driver first appeared in
217.Fx 3.0 .
218.Ox
219support was added in
220.Ox 2.6 .
221.Nx
222support was added in
223.Nx 2.0 .
224.Sh AUTHORS
225The
226.Nm
227driver was written by
228.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu .
229.Sh BUGS
230This driver is
231.Em experimental .
232.Pp
233Support for the jumbo-frame feature does not currently work with
234Marvell-based adapters under
235.Nx
236and is disabled.
237.Pp
238Support for checksum offload is unimplemented.
239.Pp
240Performance with at least some Marvell-based adapters is poor,
241especially on loaded PCI buses or when the adapters are behind
242PCI-PCI bridges.
243It is believed that this is because the Marvell parts have
244significantly less buffering than the original SysKonnect cards
245had.
246