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17.Dd $Mdocdate: August 8 2009 $
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 "atphy* at mii?"
26.Cd "brgphy* at mii?"
27.Cd "ciphy* at mii?"
28.Cd "eephy* at mii?"
29.Cd "icsphy* at mii?"
30.Cd "rgephy* at mii?"
31.Cd "rlphy* at mii?"
32.Sh DESCRIPTION
33The
34.Nm
35driver supports Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet adapters based
36on the NVIDIA nForce Media and Communications Processors (MCP),
37the nForce, nForce 2, nForce 3, CK804, MCP04, MCP51, MCP55,
38MCP61, MCP65, MCP67, MCP73, MCP77, MCP79 and MCP89 Ethernet
39controller chips.
40.Pp
41The
42.Nm
43driver supports IPv4 transmit/receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload
44with the nForce 3, CK804, MCP55, MCP77, MCP79 and MCP89 chipsets
45and VLAN tag insertion and stripping with the MCP55 chipset.
46.Pp
47The
48.Nm
49driver supports the following
50.Ar media
51types:
52.Pp
53.Bl -tag -width autoselect -compact
54.It Cm autoselect
55Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
56.It Cm 10baseT
57Set 10Mbps operation.
58.It Cm 100baseTX
59Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
60.It Cm 1000baseT
61Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation (recent models only).
62.El
63.Sh SEE ALSO
64.Xr arp 4 ,
65.Xr atphy 4 ,
66.Xr brgphy 4 ,
67.Xr ciphy 4 ,
68.Xr eephy 4 ,
69.Xr icsphy 4 ,
70.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
71.Xr intro 4 ,
72.Xr netintro 4 ,
73.Xr pci 4 ,
74.Xr rgephy 4 ,
75.Xr rlphy 4 ,
76.Xr hostname.if 5 ,
77.Xr ifconfig 8
78.Sh HISTORY
79The
80.Nm
81device driver first appeared in
82.Ox 3.9 .
83.Sh AUTHORS
84.An -nosplit
85The
86.Nm
87driver was written by
88.An Jonathan Gray
89.Aq jsg@openbsd.org
90and
91.An Damien Bergamini
92.Aq damien@openbsd.org .
93.Sh CAVEATS
94NVIDIA refuse to release any documentation on their products.
95