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35.Dd $Mdocdate: July 16 2013 $
36.Dt TI 4
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm ti
40.Nd Alteon Networks Tigon I and II Gigabit Ethernet device
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Cd "ti* at pci?"
43.Cd "ti* at sbus?"
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45The
46.Nm
47driver provides support for Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the
48Alteon Networks Tigon Gigabit Ethernet controller chip, including
49the following:
50.Pp
51.Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent
52.It
533Com 3C985-SX Gigabit Ethernet (1000baseSX)
54.It
553Com 3C985B-SX Gigabit Ethernet (1000baseSX)
56.It
57Alteon AceNIC V Gigabit Ethernet (1000baseSX)
58.It
59Alteon AceNIC V Gigabit Ethernet (1000baseT)
60.It
61Digital EtherWORKS 1000SX PCI Gigabit Ethernet (1000baseSX)
62.It
63Farallon PN9000SX Gigabit Ethernet (1000baseSX)
64.It
65Netgear GA620 Gigabit Ethernet (1000baseSX)
66.It
67Netgear GA620T Gigabit Ethernet (1000baseT)
68.It
69Silicon Graphics Gigabit Ethernet (1000baseSX)
70.It
71Silicon Graphics Gigabit Ethernet (1000baseT)
72.It
73Sun Vector Gigabit Ethernet (1000baseSX)
74.El
75.Pp
76The Tigon contains an embedded R4000 CPU, Gigabit MAC, dual DMA channels and
77a PCI interface unit.
78The Tigon II contains two R4000 CPUs and other refinements.
79Either chip can be used in either a 32-bit or 64-bit PCI slot.
80Communication with the chip is achieved via PCI shared memory and
81bus master DMA.
82SBus cards are also available and use a special bridge chip.
83The Tigon I and II support hardware multicast address filtering,
84VLAN tag insertion and stripping, and Jumbo frame sizes up to
859000 bytes.
86.Pp
87While the Tigon chipset supports 10, 100 and 1000Mbps speeds, support for
8810 and 100Mbps speeds is only available on boards with the proper
89transceivers.
90Most adapters are only designed to work at 1000Mbps, however the driver
91should support those NICs that work at lower speeds as well.
92.Pp
93Support for Jumbo frames is provided via the interface MTU setting.
94Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the
95.Xr ifconfig 8
96utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit Jumbo frames.
97.Pp
98The
99.Nm
100driver supports the following media types:
101.Bl -tag -width full-duplex
102.It autoselect
103Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
104The user can manually override
105the autoselected mode by adding media options to the appropriate
106.Xr hostname.if 5
107file.
108.It 10baseT
109Set 10Mbps operation
110The
111.Ar mediaopt
112option can also be used to select either
113.Ar full-duplex
114or
115.Ar half-duplex
116modes.
117.It 100baseTX
118Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
119The
120.Ar mediaopt
121option can also be used to select either
122.Ar full-duplex
123or
124.Ar half-duplex
125modes.
126.It 1000baseSX
127Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) on fiber operation.
128Only
129.Ar full-duplex
130mode is supported at this speed.
131.It 1000baseT
132Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) on copper operation.
133.El
134.Pp
135The
136.Nm
137driver supports the following media options:
138.Bl -tag -width full-duplex
139.It full-duplex
140Force full duplex operation
141.It half-duplex
142Force half duplex operation
143.El
144.Pp
145For more information on configuring this device, see
146.Xr ifconfig 8 .
147.Sh FILES
148Two firmware files are necessary, for Tigon 1 and Tigon 2 devices.
149These are loaded on demand
150when the device is attached:
151.Pp
152.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
153.It Pa /etc/firmware/tigon1
154.It Pa /etc/firmware/tigon2
155.El
156.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
157.Bl -diag
158.It "ti0: couldn't map memory"
159A fatal initialization error has occurred.
160.It "ti0: couldn't map interrupt"
161A fatal initialization error has occurred.
162.It "ti0: no memory for softc struct!"
163The driver failed to allocate memory for per-device instance information
164during initialization.
165.It "ti0: failed to enable memory mapping!"
166The driver failed to initialize PCI shared memory mapping.
167This might happen if the card is not in a bus-master slot.
168.It "ti0: no memory for jumbo buffers!"
169The driver failed to allocate memory for Jumbo frames during
170initialization.
171.It "ti0: bios thinks we're in a 64 bit slot, but we aren't"
172The BIOS has programmed the NIC as though it had been installed in
173a 64-bit PCI slot, but in fact the NIC is in a 32-bit slot.
174This happens as a result of a bug in some BIOSes.
175This can be worked around on the Tigon II, but
176on the Tigon I initialization will fail.
177.It "ti0: board self-diagnostics failed!"
178The ROMFAIL bit in the CPU state register was set after system
179startup, indicating that the on-board NIC diagnostics failed.
180.It "ti0: unknown hwrev"
181The driver detected a board with an unsupported hardware revision.
182The
183.Nm
184driver supports revision 4 (Tigon 1) and revision 6 (Tigon 2) chips
185and has firmware only for those devices.
186.It "ti0: watchdog timeout -- resetting"
187The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with
188the network connection (cable).
189.El
190.Sh SEE ALSO
191.Xr arp 4 ,
192.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
193.Xr intro 4 ,
194.Xr netintro 4 ,
195.Xr pci 4 ,
196.Xr sbus 4 ,
197.Xr hostname.if 5 ,
198.Xr ifconfig 8
199.Sh HISTORY
200The
201.Nm
202device driver first appeared in
203.Fx 3.0 .
204.Ox
205support first appeared in
206.Ox 2.6 .
207SBus support was added in
208.Ox 4.7 .
209.Sh AUTHORS
210.An -nosplit
211The
212.Nm
213driver was written by
214.An Bill Paul Aq Mt wpaul@bsdi.com .
215SBus support was added by
216.An Mark Kettenis Aq Mt kettenis@openbsd.org .
217