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35.Dd $Mdocdate: July 16 2013 $
36.Dt NGE 4
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm nge
40.Nd National Semiconductor PCI 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Cd "nge* at pci?"
43.Cd "nsgphy* at mii?"
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45The
46.Nm
47driver provides support for various NICs based on the National Semiconductor
48DP83820 and DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet controller chips, including the
49following:
50.Pp
51.Bl -bullet -compact
52.It
53Addtron AEG320T
54.It
55Ark PC SOHO-GA2500T (32-bit PCI) and SOHO-GA2000T (64-bit PCI)
56.It
57Asante FriendlyNet GigaNIX 1000TA and 1000TPC
58.It
59D-Link DGE-500T
60.It
61Linksys EG1032v1 (32-bit PCI) and EG1064v1 (64-bit PCI)
62.It
63Netgear GA621
64.It
65Netgear GA622T
66.It
67SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX)
68.It
69Surecom Technology EP-320G-TX
70.It
71TRENDnet TEG-PCITX (32-bit PCI) and TEG-PCITX2 (64-bit PCI)
72.El
73.Pp
74The
75.Nm
76driver supports IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload, VLAN tag
77insertion and stripping, as well as a 2048-bit multicast hash filter
78and up to 4 pattern match buffers.
79.Pp
80The
81.Nm
82driver also supports Jumbo frames, which can be configured via the
83interface MTU setting.
84Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the
85.Xr ifconfig 8
86utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit Jumbo frames.
87.Pp
88The
89.Nm
90driver supports the following media types:
91.Bl -tag -width full-duplex
92.It Cm autoselect
93Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
94The user can manually override
95the autoselected mode by adding media options to the appropriate
96.Xr hostname.if 5
97file.
98.It Cm 10baseT
99Set 10Mbps operation.
100The
101.Xr ifconfig 8
102.Ic mediaopt
103option can also be used to select either
104.Cm full-duplex
105or
106.Cm half-duplex
107modes.
108.It Cm 100baseTX
109Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
110The
111.Xr ifconfig 8
112.Ic mediaopt
113option can also be used to select either
114.Cm full-duplex
115or
116.Cm half-duplex
117modes.
118.It Cm 1000baseT
119Set 1000baseT operation over twisted pair.
120Both
121.Cm full-duplex
122and
123.Cm half-duplex
124modes are supported.
125.It Cm 1000baseSX
126Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
127Both
128.Cm full-duplex
129and
130.Cm half-duplex
131modes are supported.
132.El
133.Pp
134The
135.Nm
136driver supports the following media options:
137.Bl -tag -width full-duplex
138.It Cm full-duplex
139Force full duplex operation.
140.It Cm half-duplex
141Force half duplex operation.
142.El
143.Pp
144For more information on configuring this device, see
145.Xr ifconfig 8 .
146.Sh SEE ALSO
147.Xr arp 4 ,
148.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
149.Xr intro 4 ,
150.Xr netintro 4 ,
151.Xr nsgphy 4 ,
152.Xr pci 4 ,
153.Xr hostname.if 5 ,
154.Xr ifconfig 8
155.Rs
156.%T National Semiconductor DP83820 datasheet
157.%U http://www.national.com
158.Re
159.Rs
160.%T National Semiconductor DP83861 datasheet
161.%U http://www.national.com
162.Re
163.Sh HISTORY
164The
165.Nm
166device driver first appeared in
167.Ox 3.0 .
168.Sh AUTHORS
169The
170.Nm
171driver was written by
172.An Bill Paul Aq Mt wpaul@bsdi.com .
173