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38 .Nd "SiS 900, SiS 7016 and NS DP83815 Fast Ethernet device driver"
40 To compile this driver into the kernel,
41 place the following lines in your
42 kernel configuration file:
43 .Bd -ragged -offset indent
48 Alternatively, to load the driver as a
49 module at boot time, place the following line in
51 .Bd -literal -offset indent
57 driver provides support for PCI Ethernet adapters and embedded
58 controllers based on the Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900
59 and SiS 7016 Fast Ethernet controller chips.
61 This driver also supports
62 adapters based on the National Semiconductor DP83815 (MacPhyter)
63 PCI Ethernet controller chip.
65 The SiS 900 is a 100Mbps Ethernet MAC and MII-compliant transceiver
67 It uses a bus master DMA and a scatter/gather
69 The SiS 7016 is similar to the SiS 900 except
70 that it has no internal PHY, requiring instead an external transceiver
71 to be attached to its MII interface.
72 The SiS 900 and SiS 7016 both have a 128-bit multicast hash filter
73 and a single perfect filter entry for the station address.
75 The NS DP83815 is also a 100Mbps Ethernet MAC with integrated PHY.
76 The NatSemi chip and the SiS 900 share many of the same features and
77 a fairly similar programming interface, hence both chips are supported
82 driver supports the following media types:
84 .Bl -tag -width 10baseTXUTP
86 Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
87 The user can manually override
88 the autoselected mode by adding media options to
95 option can also be used to select either
101 Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
105 option can also be used to select either
114 driver supports the following media options:
116 .Bl -tag -width full-duplex
118 Force full duplex operation
120 Force half duplex operation.
123 For more information on configuring this device, see
128 driver supports Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900 and SiS 7016 based
129 Fast Ethernet adapters and embedded controllers, as well as Fast Ethernet
130 adapters based on the National Semiconductor DP83815 (MacPhyter) chip.
131 Supported adapters include:
135 @Nifty FNECHARD IFC USUP-TX
139 Netgear FA311-TX (DP83815)
141 Netgear FA312-TX (DP83815)
143 SiS 630, 635, and 735 motherboard chipsets
147 .It "sis%d: couldn't map ports/memory"
148 A fatal initialization error has occurred.
149 .It "sis%d: couldn't map interrupt"
150 A fatal initialization error has occurred.
151 .It "sis%d: watchdog timeout"
152 The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with
153 the network connection (e.g.\& a cable fault).
154 .It "sis%d: no memory for rx list"
155 The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring.
156 .It "sis%d: no memory for tx list"
157 The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the transmitter ring when
158 allocating a pad buffer or collapsing an mbuf chain into a cluster.
159 .It "sis%d: chip is in D3 power state -- setting to D0"
160 This message applies only to adapters which support power
162 Some operating systems place the controller in low power
163 mode when shutting down, and some PCI BIOSes fail to bring the chip
164 out of this state before configuring it.
165 The controller loses all of
166 its PCI configuration in the D3 state, so if the BIOS does not set
167 it back to full power mode in time, it will not be able to configure it
169 The driver tries to detect this condition and bring
170 the adapter back to the D0 (full power) state, but this may not be
171 enough to return the driver to a fully operational condition.
173 you see this message at boot time and the driver fails to attach
174 the device as a network interface, you will have to perform a
175 warm boot to have the device properly configured.
177 Note that this condition only occurs when warm booting from another
179 If you power down your system prior to booting
181 the card should be configured correctly.
191 .%T SiS 900 and SiS 7016 datasheets
192 .%O http://www.sis.com.tw
195 .%T NatSemi DP83815 datasheet
196 .%O http://www.national.com
201 device driver first appeared in
206 driver was written by
207 .An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@ee.columbia.edu .