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tl
— Ethernet
driver for Texas Instruments ThunderLAN based board
tl* at pci? dev ? function ?
Configuration of PHYs is necessary. See mii(4).
The tl
device driver supports network
adapters based on the Texas Instruments ThunderLAN chip.
Supported cards include:
The different models of the supported boards come with some subset of RJ-45, BNC and AUI connectors. Media selection is done using ifconfig(8) using the standard ifmedia(4) mechanism. Refer to those manual pages for more information.
The tl
driver doesn't have full automatic
media selection. By default it will do an Nway (IEEE 802.3u) negotiation on
the 10BASE-T port for the speed and duplex mode with the link partner. If
the AUI or BNC port is used, an explicit media type must be specified to
ifconfig(8).
The board marked as untested will always claim having an AUI connector, where it may be a BNC one.
May 16, 2009 | NetBSD 10.99 |