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36.Dd $Mdocdate: March 31 2008 $
37.Dt LE 4 sparc64
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm le
41.Nd AMD LANCE Ethernet device
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Cd "ledma* at sbus?          " Pq onboard
44.Cd "le* at ledma*            " Pq onboard
45.Cd "le* at sbus?             " Pq SBus
46.Cd "lebuffer* at sbus?       " Pq SBus
47.Cd "le* at lebuffer?         " Pq SBus
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Nm
51interface provides access to the 10 Mb/s
52.Tn Ethernet
53network via the
54.Tn AMD
55Am7990
56Local Area Network Controller for Ethernet
57.Pq Tn LANCE
58chip set.
59.Pp
60Different cards and machines have different kinds of connectors,
61as follows:
62.Bl -tag -width "media autoselect"
63.It AUI/DIX
64Standard 15 pin connector
65.It 10BaseT
66UTP, also known as twisted pair
67.El
68.Pp
69By default, the system will select the media type automatically, but the
70.Xr ifconfig 8
71command can be used to force the media selection.
72The media types are shown below:
73.Bl -tag -width "media autoselect"
74.It media autoselect
75Attempt to autoselect the media type (default)
76.It media 10base5
77Use the AUI connector
78.It media 10baseT
79Use the twisted pair connector
80.El
81.Sh NOTES
82Some SBus models, in particular the 501-1450 and 501-1881, have dip
83switches which must be changed to select between the BNC and AUI modes.
84For BNC, set 1-6 ON, 7-8 OFF; for AUI set 1-6 OFF, and 7-8 ON.
85.Sh SEE ALSO
86.Xr arp 4 ,
87.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
88.Xr inet 4 ,
89.Xr intro 4 ,
90.Xr netintro 4 ,
91.Xr sbus 4 ,
92.Xr hostname.if 5 ,
93.Xr ifconfig 8
94.Sh HISTORY
95.Ox
96support for the
97.Nm
98first appeared in
99.Ox 3.0 .
100