1.\" $NetBSD: tl.4,v 1.20 2009/05/17 02:52:03 fair Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Manuel Bouyer 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgements: 16.\" This product includes software developed by Manuel Bouyer. 17.\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 18.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 21.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 22.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 23.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 24.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 25.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 26.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 27.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 28.\" INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 29.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" 31.Dd May 16, 2009 32.Dt TL 4 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm tl 36.Nd Ethernet driver for Texas Instruments ThunderLAN based board 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38.Cd "tl* at pci? dev ? function ?" 39.Pp 40Configuration of PHYs is necessary. 41See 42.Xr mii 4 . 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm tl 46device driver supports network adapters based on 47the Texas Instruments ThunderLAN chip. 48.Sh HARDWARE 49Supported cards include: 50.Pp 51.Bl -tag -width xxxxxx -offset indent 52.It Compaq Netelligent 53in baseboard and 54.Tn PCI 55variants (10BASE-T-only variant untested). 56.It Compaq NetFlex 3/P 57in baseboard variant only (the 58.Tn PCI 59variant doesn't use the same chip!). 60.It \&It Baseboard Compaq Deskpro 4000 5233MMX Ethernet 61(This has been tested on the Deskpro 4000M only). 62.It TI TravelMate 5000 series laptop docking station's Ethernet board . 63.El 64.Sh MEDIA SELECTION 65The different models of the supported boards come with some subset of RJ-45, 66BNC and AUI connectors. 67Media selection is done using 68.Xr ifconfig 8 69using the standard 70.Xr ifmedia 4 71mechanism. 72Refer to those manual pages for more information. 73.Pp 74The 75.Nm 76driver doesn't have full automatic media selection. 77By default it will do an Nway 78.Pq Tn IEEE 802.3u 79negotiation on the 10BASE-T port for the speed and duplex mode with the 80link partner. 81If the AUI or BNC port is used, an explicit media type must be 82specified to 83.Xr ifconfig 8 . 84.\" .in -4 85.Sh SEE ALSO 86.Xr ifmedia 4 , 87.Xr mii 4 , 88.Xr netintro 4 , 89.Xr pci 4 , 90.Xr ifconfig 8 91.Sh BUGS 92The board marked as untested will always claim having an AUI connector, where 93it may be a BNC one. 94