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30.Dd June 1, 2007
31.Dt XI 4
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm xi
35.Nd Xircom CreditCard Ethernet device driver
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Cd "xi* at xirc?"
38.Pp
39Configuration of PHYs may also be necessary.  See
40.Xr mii 4 .
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The
43.Nm
44driver provides support for the Xircom CreditCard family of PCMCIA
45Ethernet adapters.  Supported cards include:
46.Pp
47.Bl -item -compact -offset indent
48.It
49Xircom CreditCard Ethernet II
50.It
51Xircom CreditCard 10/100 Ethernet
52.\" .It Xircom CreditCard Ethernet + Modem
53.\" .It Xircom CreditCard 10/100 Ethernet + Modem
54.It
55Xircom RealPort 10/100 Ethernet + Modem (Ethernet function only)
56.It
57Intel EtherExpress Pro/100
58.It
59Compaq Netelligent 10/100
60.El
61.Pp
62Cards which should work, but have not been confirmed include:
63.Pp
64.Bl -item -compact -offset indent
65.It
66Xircom RealPort Ethernet
67.It
68Xircom RealPort 10/100 Ethernet
69.El
70.Pp
71Some Xircom Ethernet products are supported by the
72.Xr tlp 4
73driver.
74.Sh MEDIA SELECTION
75Media selection is done using
76.Xr ifconfig 8
77using the standard
78.Xr ifmedia 4
79mechanism.  Refer to those manual pages for more information.
80.Sh SEE ALSO
81.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
82.Xr mii 4 ,
83.Xr netintro 4 ,
84.Xr pcmcia 4 ,
85.Xr tlp 4 ,
86.Xr xirc 4 ,
87.Xr ifconfig 8
88.Sh HISTORY
89The
90.Nm
91device driver appeared in
92.Nx 1.5 .
93.Sh BUGS
94The driver suffers from poor performance.  Even with the 10/100 cards,
95do not expect more than ~450KB/s.  Some 10/100 cards may not autonegotiate
96reliably and require manual media selection.
97.Pp
98The Xircom multifunction cards which contain both Ethernet and modem
99interfaces are known to have problems.  This is due to the card not
100reporting itself correctly as a multifunction card.
101