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17.Dd $Mdocdate: October 28 2008 $
18.Dt NFE 4
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm nfe
22.Nd NVIDIA nForce MCP 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Cd "nfe* at pci?"
25.Cd "ciphy* at mii?"
26.Cd "eephy* at mii?"
27.Cd "icsphy* at mii?"
28.Cd "rgephy* at mii?"
29.Cd "rlphy* at mii?"
30.Sh DESCRIPTION
31The
32.Nm
33driver supports Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet adapters based
34on the NVIDIA nForce Media and Communications Processors (MCP),
35the nForce, nForce 2, nForce 3, CK804, MCP04, MCP51, MCP55,
36MCP61, MCP65, MCP67, MCP73, MCP77 and MCP79 Ethernet
37controller chips.
38.Pp
39The
40.Nm
41driver supports IPv4 transmit/receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload
42with the nForce 3, CK804, MCP55, MCP77 and MCP79 chipsets and VLAN
43tag insertion and stripping with the MCP55 chipset.
44.Pp
45The
46.Nm
47driver supports the following
48.Ar media
49types:
50.Pp
51.Bl -tag -width autoselect -compact
52.It Cm autoselect
53Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
54.It Cm 10baseT
55Set 10Mbps operation.
56.It Cm 100baseTX
57Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
58.It Cm 1000baseT
59Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation (recent models only).
60.El
61.Sh SEE ALSO
62.Xr arp 4 ,
63.Xr ciphy 4 ,
64.Xr eephy 4 ,
65.Xr icsphy 4 ,
66.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
67.Xr intro 4 ,
68.Xr netintro 4 ,
69.Xr pci 4 ,
70.Xr rgephy 4 ,
71.Xr rlphy 4 ,
72.Xr hostname.if 5 ,
73.Xr ifconfig 8
74.Sh HISTORY
75The
76.Nm
77device driver first appeared in
78.Ox 3.9 .
79.Sh AUTHORS
80.An -nosplit
81The
82.Nm
83driver was written by
84.An Jonathan Gray
85.Aq jsg@openbsd.org
86and
87.An Damien Bergamini
88.Aq damien@openbsd.org .
89.Sh CAVEATS
90NVIDIA refuse to release any documentation on their products.
91