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35.Dd $Mdocdate: March 31 2011 $
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.
97Using Jumbo frames can greatly improve performance for certain tasks,
98such as file transfers and data streaming.
99.Pp
100The
101.Nm
102driver supports the following media types:
103.Bl -tag -width full-duplex
104.It autoselect
105Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
106The user can manually override
107the autoselected mode by adding media options to the appropriate
108.Xr hostname.if 5
109file.
110.It 10baseT
111Set 10Mbps operation
112The
113.Ar mediaopt
114option can also be used to select either
115.Ar full-duplex
116or
117.Ar half-duplex
118modes.
119.It 100baseTX
120Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
121The
122.Ar mediaopt
123option can also be used to select either
124.Ar full-duplex
125or
126.Ar half-duplex
127modes.
128.It 1000baseSX
129Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) on fiber operation.
130Only
131.Ar full-duplex
132mode is supported at this speed.
133.It 1000baseT
134Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) on copper operation.
135.El
136.Pp
137The
138.Nm
139driver supports the following media options:
140.Bl -tag -width full-duplex
141.It full-duplex
142Force full duplex operation
143.It half-duplex
144Force half duplex operation
145.El
146.Pp
147For more information on configuring this device, see
148.Xr ifconfig 8 .
149.Sh FILES
150Two firmware files are necessary, for Tigon 1 and Tigon 2 devices.
151These are loaded on demand
152when the device is attached:
153.Pp
154.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
155.It Pa /etc/firmware/tigon1
156.It Pa /etc/firmware/tigon2
157.El
158.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
159.Bl -diag
160.It "ti%d: couldn't map memory"
161A fatal initialization error has occurred.
162.It "ti%d: couldn't map interrupt"
163A fatal initialization error has occurred.
164.It "ti%d: no memory for softc struct!"
165The driver failed to allocate memory for per-device instance information
166during initialization.
167.It "ti%d: failed to enable memory mapping!"
168The driver failed to initialize PCI shared memory mapping.
169This might happen if the card is not in a bus-master slot.
170.It "ti%d: no memory for jumbo buffers!"
171The driver failed to allocate memory for Jumbo frames during
172initialization.
173.It "ti%d: bios thinks we're in a 64 bit slot, but we aren't"
174The BIOS has programmed the NIC as though it had been installed in
175a 64-bit PCI slot, but in fact the NIC is in a 32-bit slot.
176This happens as a result of a bug in some BIOSes.
177This can be worked around on the Tigon II, but
178on the Tigon I initialization will fail.
179.It "ti%d: board self-diagnostics failed!"
180The ROMFAIL bit in the CPU state register was set after system
181startup, indicating that the on-board NIC diagnostics failed.
182.It "ti%d: unknown hwrev"
183The driver detected a board with an unsupported hardware revision.
184The
185.Nm
186driver supports revision 4 (Tigon 1) and revision 6 (Tigon 2) chips
187and has firmware only for those devices.
188.It "ti%d: watchdog timeout -- resetting"
189The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with
190the network connection (cable).
191.El
192.Sh SEE ALSO
193.Xr arp 4 ,
194.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
195.Xr intro 4 ,
196.Xr netintro 4 ,
197.Xr pci 4 ,
198.Xr sbus 4 ,
199.Xr hostname.if 5 ,
200.Xr ifconfig 8
201.Sh HISTORY
202The
203.Nm
204device driver first appeared in
205.Fx 3.0 .
206.Ox
207support first appeared in
208.Ox 2.6 .
209SBus support was added in
210.Ox 4.7 .
211.Sh AUTHORS
212.An -nosplit
213The
214.Nm
215driver was written by
216.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@bsdi.com .
217SBus support was added by
218.An Mark Kettenis Aq kettenis@openbsd.org .
219