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33.Dd $Mdocdate: July 13 2011 $
34.Dt BGE 4
35.Os
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm bge
38.Nd Broadcom BCM57xx/BCM590x 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.Cd "bge* at pci?"
41.Cd "brgphy* at mii?"
42.Cd "rgephy* at mii?"
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The
45.Nm
46driver provides support for various NICs based on the Broadcom BCM570x,
47571x, 572x, 575x, 576x, 578x, 5776x and 5778x Gigabit Ethernet controller
48chips and the 590x and 5779x Fast Ethernet controller chips,
49including the following:
50.Pp
51.Bl -bullet -compact
52.It
533Com 3c996-T (10/100/1000baseT)
54.It
553Com 3c996-SX (1000baseSX)
56.It
573Com 3c996B-T (10/100/1000baseT)
58.It
59Allied-Telesis AT-2972LX10/LC
60.It
61Dell PowerEdge 1750 integrated BCM5704C NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
62.It
63Dell PowerEdge 2550 integrated BCM5700 NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
64.It
65Dell PowerEdge 2650 integrated BCM5703 NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
66.It
67Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 250/450 LAN (10/100/1000baseT)
68.It
69Fujitsu PW0G8GE1U (1000baseSX)
70.It
71Fujitsu PW0G8GE2U (10/100/1000baseT)
72.It
73Fujitsu PW008GE4 (1000baseSX)
74.It
75Fujitsu PW008GE5 (10/100/1000baseT)
76.It
77Fujitsu PW008QG1U (10/100/1000baseT)
78.It
79HP ProLiant NC320T PCI-E Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
80.It
81HP ProLiant NC320m PCI-E Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
82.It
83HP ProLiant NC370F PCI-X Gigabit NIC (1000baseSX)
84.It
85HP ProLiant NC370T PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
86.It
87HP ProLiant NC1020 PCI Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
88.It
89HP ProLiant NC6770 PCI-X Gigabit NIC (1000baseSX)
90.It
91HP ProLiant NC7760 embedded PCI Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
92.It
93HP ProLiant NC7770 PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
94.It
95HP ProLiant NC7771 PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
96.It
97HP ProLiant NC7780 embedded PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
98.It
99HP ProLiant NC7781 embedded PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
100.It
101HP ProLiant NC7782 embedded PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
102.It
103IBM ThinkPad T43/T43p integrated BCM5751M NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
104.It
105IBM xSeries 235 integrated BCM5703X NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
106.It
107IBM xSeries 305 integrated BCM5703X NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
108.It
109Netgear GA302T (10/100/1000baseT)
110.It
111SysKonnect SK-9D21 (10/100/1000baseT)
112.It
113SysKonnect SK-9D41 (1000baseSX)
114.El
115.Pp
116The
117.Nm
118driver supports IPv4 IP, TCP, and UDP checksum offload for receive,
119IP checksum offload for transmit, VLAN tag insertion and stripping,
120as well as a 256-bit multicast hash filter.
121The BCM5717, BCM5718, BCM5723, BCM5724, BCM5754, BCM5755, BCM5761, BCM5764,
122BCM5784, BCM5785, BCM5787 and BCM577xx chips also support IPv6 receive TCP/UDP
123checksum offload.
124.Pp
125The BCM5700, BCM5701, BCM5703 and BCM5704 chips are capable of
126supporting Jumbo frames, which can be configured via the
127interface MTU setting.
128Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the
129.Xr ifconfig 8
130utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit Jumbo frames.
131Using Jumbo frames can greatly improve performance for certain tasks,
132such as file transfers and data streaming.
133.Pp
134The
135.Nm
136driver supports the following media types:
137.Bl -tag -width 1000baseSX
138.It Cm autoselect
139Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
140The user can manually override
141the autoselected mode by adding media options to the appropriate
142.Xr hostname.if 5
143file.
144.It Cm 10baseT
145Set 10Mbps operation.
146The
147.Xr ifconfig 8
148.Ic mediaopt
149option can also be used to select either
150.Cm full-duplex
151or
152.Cm half-duplex
153modes.
154.It Cm 100baseTX
155Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
156The
157.Xr ifconfig 8
158.Ic mediaopt
159option can also be used to select either
160.Cm full-duplex
161or
162.Cm half-duplex
163modes.
164.It Cm 1000baseT
165Set 1000baseT operation over twisted pair.
166Both
167.Cm full-duplex
168and
169.Cm half-dupex
170modes are supported.
171.It Cm 1000baseSX
172Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
173Both
174.Cm full-duplex
175and
176.Cm half-duplex
177modes are supported.
178.El
179.Pp
180The
181.Nm
182driver supports the following media options:
183.Bl -tag -width full-duplex
184.It Cm full-duplex
185Force full duplex operation.
186.It Cm half-duplex
187Force half duplex operation.
188.El
189.Pp
190For more information on configuring this device, see
191.Xr ifconfig 8 .
192.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
193.Bl -diag
194.It "bge%d: can't find mem space"
195A fatal initialization error has occurred.
196.It "bge%d: couldn't map interrupt"
197A fatal initialization error has occurred.
198.It "bge%d: watchdog timeout -- resetting"
199The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with
200the network connection (cable).
201.El
202.Sh SEE ALSO
203.Xr arp 4 ,
204.Xr brgphy 4 ,
205.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
206.Xr intro 4 ,
207.Xr netintro 4 ,
208.Xr pci 4 ,
209.Xr rgephy 4 ,
210.Xr hostname.if 5 ,
211.Xr ifconfig 8
212.Sh HISTORY
213The
214.Nm
215device driver first appeared in
216.Ox 3.0 .
217.Sh AUTHORS
218The
219.Nm
220driver was written by
221.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@windriver.com .
222