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35.Dd $Mdocdate: March 16 2009 $
36.Dt VR 4
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm vr
40.Nd VIA VT3043/VT86C100A/VT6105/VT6105M 10/100 Ethernet device
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Cd "vr* at pci?"
43.Cd "amphy* at mii?"
44.Cd "sqphy* at mii?"
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48driver provides support for PCI Ethernet adapters and embedded
49controllers based on the VIA Technologies VT3043 Rhine I,
50VT86C100A Rhine II, and VT6105/VT6105M Rhine III Fast Ethernet
51controller chips.
52This includes the D-Link DFE530-TX and various other commodity Fast Ethernet
53cards.
54.Pp
55The VIA Rhine chips use bus master DMA and have a software interface
56designed to resemble that of the DEC 21x4x "tulip" chips.
57The major differences are that the receive filter in the Rhine chips is
58much simpler and is programmed through registers rather than by
59downloading a special setup frame through the transmit DMA engine,
60and that transmit and receive DMA buffers must be longword aligned.
61The Rhine chips are meant to be interfaced with external
62physical layer devices via an MII bus.
63They support both 10 and 100Mbps speeds in either full or half duplex.
64.Pp
65The
66.Nm
67driver supports the following media types:
68.Bl -tag -width full-duplex
69.It autoselect
70Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
71The user can manually override
72the autoselected mode by adding media options to the appropriate
73.Xr hostname.if 5
74file.
75.It 10baseT
76Set 10Mbps operation.
77The
78.Ar mediaopt
79option can also be used to select either
80.Ar full-duplex
81or
82.Ar half-duplex
83modes.
84.It 100baseTX
85Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
86The
87.Ar mediaopt
88option can also be used to select either
89.Ar full-duplex
90or
91.Ar half-duplex
92modes.
93.El
94.Pp
95The
96.Nm
97driver supports the following media options:
98.Bl -tag -width full-duplex
99.It full-duplex
100Force full duplex operation.
101.It half-duplex
102Force half duplex operation.
103.El
104.Pp
105Note that the 100baseTX media type is only available if supported
106by the adapter.
107For more information on configuring this device, see
108.Xr ifconfig 8 .
109.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
110.Bl -diag
111.It "vr%d: couldn't map memory"
112A fatal initialization error has occurred.
113.It "vr%d: couldn't map interrupt"
114A fatal initialization error has occurred.
115.It "vr%d: watchdog timeout"
116The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with
117the network connection (cable).
118.It "vr%d: no memory for rx list"
119The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring.
120.It "vr%d: no memory for tx list"
121The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the transmitter ring when
122allocating a pad buffer or collapsing an mbuf chain into a cluster.
123.It "vr%d: chip is in D3 power state -- setting to D0"
124This message applies only to adapters which support power management.
125Some operating systems place the controller in low power
126mode when shutting down, and some PCI BIOSes fail to bring the chip
127out of this state before configuring it.
128The controller loses all of its PCI configuration in the D3 state, so if the
129BIOS does not set it back to full power mode in time, it won't be able to
130configure it correctly.
131The driver tries to detect this condition and bring
132the adapter back to the D0 (full power) state, but this may not be
133enough to return the driver to a fully operational condition.
134If this message appears at boot time and the driver fails to attach
135the device as a network interface, a second warm boot will have to be
136performed to have the device properly configured.
137.Pp
138Note that this condition only occurs when warm booting from another
139operating system.
140If the system is powered down prior to booting
141.Ox ,
142the card should be configured correctly.
143.El
144.Sh SEE ALSO
145.Xr amphy 4 ,
146.Xr arp 4 ,
147.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
148.Xr intro 4 ,
149.Xr netintro 4 ,
150.Xr pci 4 ,
151.Xr sqphy 4 ,
152.Xr hostname.if 5 ,
153.Xr ifconfig 8
154.Rs
155.%T The VIA Technologies VT86C100A data sheet
156.%O http://www.via.com.tw
157.Re
158.Sh HISTORY
159The
160.Nm
161device driver first appeared in
162.Fx 3.0 .
163.Ox
164support first appeared in
165.Ox 2.5 .
166.Sh AUTHORS
167The
168.Nm
169driver was written by
170.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu .
171.Sh BUGS
172The
173.Nm
174driver always copies transmit mbuf chains into longword-aligned
175buffers prior to transmission in order to pacify the Rhine chips.
176If buffers are not aligned correctly, the chip will round the
177supplied buffer address and begin DMAing from the wrong location.
178This buffer copying impairs transmit performance on slower systems but can't
179be avoided.
180On faster machines (e.g., a Pentium II), the performance
181impact is much less noticeable.
182