1 .\" Written by Tom Rhodes for the FreeBSD Project.
2 .\" Please see the /usr/src/COPYRIGHT file for copyright information.
4 .\" This document takes information from the IEEE 802.3 Standard
5 .\" along with various comments from Peter Wemm, Robert Watson, and Bill Paul.
6 .\" Originally this file looked much like the NetBSD mii(4) manual page, but
7 .\" I doubt you would ever notice due to large differences.
11 .Dd September 26, 2014
16 .Nd IEEE 802.3 Media Independent Interface network bus
18 For most network interface cards (NIC):
23 driver provides an interconnection between the Media Access Control (MAC)
24 sublayer, the Physical Layer entities (PHY), Station Management (STA)
25 entities, and the PHY Layer as defined by the IEEE 802.3 Standard.
29 layer allows network device drivers to share common support
30 code for various external PHY devices.
31 Most 10/100 network interface cards either use an MII transceiver
32 or have built-in transceivers that can be programmed using an MII
36 driver currently handles all of the media detection,
37 selection, and reporting using the ifmedia interface.
38 A generic driver has been included for all PHYs that are not
39 handled by a specific driver, this is possible because all
40 10/100 PHYs implement the same general register set along with
41 their vendor specific register set.
43 The following network device drivers use the
47 .Bl -tag -compact -width ".Xr fxp 4"
49 Attansic/Atheros L2 Fast Ethernet
51 Attansic/Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet
53 Atheros AR8131/AR8132 PCIe Ethernet
55 Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCIe Ethernet
59 ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB Ethernet
61 Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet
63 Broadcom BCM4401 Ethernet
65 Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet
67 Sun Cassini/Cassini+ and National Semiconductor DP83065 Saturn
69 DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes
71 NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390 cards
73 Agere ET1310 Gigabit Ethernet
75 Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B
77 Sun ERI, Sun GEM and Apple GMAC Ethernet
81 JMicron JMC250 Gigabit/JMC260 Fast Ethernet
83 Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator Gigabit Ethernet
85 Marvell/SysKonnect Yukon II Gigabit Ethernet
87 NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter
89 National Semiconductor DP83820/DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet
91 NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter
93 AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100
95 RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S
99 RealTek RTL8150 USB To Fast Ethernet
103 Silicon Integrated Systems SiS190/191 Ethernet
105 Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016
107 SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x Gigabit Ethernet
109 SMSC LAN9xxx USB Fast Ethernet
111 Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX)
113 Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet
115 Texas Instruments ThunderLAN
117 SMC EtherPower II (83c170)
119 Davicom DM9601 USB Ethernet
121 VIA VT612x PCI Gigabit Ethernet
125 DM&P Vortex86 RDC R6040 Fast Ethernet
132 The implementation of
134 was originally intended to have similar API interfaces
139 but as a result are not well behaved newbus device drivers.
186 More information on MII can be found in the IEEE 802.3 Standard.
190 driver first appeared in
193 This manual page was written by
194 .An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org .