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