1.\" $NetBSD: tl.4,v 1.19 2004/12/08 18:33:32 peter 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 October 17, 1997 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 are 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 PCI variants (10BASE-T-only variant untested). 54.It Compaq NetFlex 3/P 55in baseboard variant only (the PCI variant doesn't use the same chip !). 56.It \&It Baseboard Compaq Deskpro 4000 5233MMX Ethernet 57(This has been tested on the Deskpro 4000M only). 58.It TI TravelMate 5000 series laptop docking station's Ethernet board . 59.El 60.Sh MEDIA SELECTION 61The different models of the supported boards come with some subset of RJ-45, 62BNC and AUI connectors. 63Media selection is done using 64.Xr ifconfig 8 65using the standard 66.Xr ifmedia 4 67mechanism. 68Refer to those manual pages for more information. 69.Pp 70The 71.Nm 72driver don't have full automatic media selection. 73By default it will do an NWay 74on the UTP port for negotiation of the speed and duplex mode with the 75link partner. 76If the AUI or BNC port is used, an explicit medium must be 77specified to 78.Xr ifconfig 8 79or in your 80.Pa /etc/ifconfig.tl? 81file. 82.in -4 83.Sh SEE ALSO 84.Xr ifmedia 4 , 85.Xr mii 4 , 86.Xr netintro 4 , 87.Xr pci 4 , 88.Xr ifconfig 8 89.Sh BUGS 90The board marked as untested will always claim having an AUI connector, where 91it may be a BNC one. 92