EX(4) | Device Drivers Manual | EX(4)

# NAME

`ex` — driver for 3Com Fast EtherLink XL (3c900, 3c905, 3c980) and similar PCI bus and cardbus Ethernet interfaces

# SYNOPSIS

`ex* at cardbus? function ?`
`ex* at pci? dev ? function ?`

# DESCRIPTION

3Com Ethernet and Fast Ethernet cards supported by the `ex` driver include:

3c450-TX
  10/100 Ethernet
3c555
  MiniPCI 10/100 Ethernet
3c575-TX
  Ethernet
3c575B-TX
  Ethernet
3c575CT
  Ethernet
3c656
  MiniPCI 10/100 Ethernet
3c656B
  MiniPCI 10/100 Ethernet
3c656C
  MiniPCI 10/100 Ethernet
3c900-TPO
  Ethernet
3c900-COMBO
  Ethernet
3c900B-TPC
  Ethernet
3c900B-TPO
  Ethernet
3c900B-COMBO
  Ethernet
3c905-T4
  10/100 Ethernet
3c905-TX
  10/100 Ethernet
3c905B-COMBO
  10/100 Ethernet
3c905B-FX
  10/100 Ethernet
3c905B-T4
  10/100 Ethernet
3c905B-TX
  10/100 Ethernet
3c905CX-TX
  10/100 Ethernet
3c980
  Server Adapter 10/100 Ethernet
3c980C-TXM
  10/100 Ethernet
3cSOHO100-TX
  10/100 Ethernet

All versions of the EtherLink XL (except the older 3c900 and 3c905) support IPv4/TCP/UDP checksumming in hardware. The `ex` driver supports this feature of the chip. See ifconfig(8) for information on how to enable this feature.

# MEDIA SELECTION

Some of these network interfaces support the Media Independent Interface (MII), a bus which can have at least one arbitrary Physical interface (PHY) chip on it. NetBSD supports MII and has separate drivers for many different PHY chips, including ukphy(4), a generic PHY driver that can support many PHY chips that NetBSD does not yet have a specific driver for.

Support for the PHY found on a given NIC must be configured into a NetBSD kernel config(1) for this driver to work properly in those cases.

See ifmedia(4), and mii(4).

# DIAGNOSTICS

%s: adapter failure (%x)
%s: can't allocate download descriptors, error = %d
%s: can't allocate or map rx buffers
%s: can't allocate upload descriptors, error = %d
%s: can't create download desc. DMA map, error = %d
%s: can't create rx DMA map %d, error = %d
%s: can't create tx DMA map %d, error = %d
%s: can't create upload desc. DMA map, error = %d
%s: can't load download desc. DMA map, error = %d
%s: can't load mbuf chain, error = %d
%s: can't load rx buffer, error = %d
%s: can't load upload desc. DMA map, error = %d
%s: can't map download descriptors, error = %d
%s: can't map upload descriptors, error = %d
%s: fifo underrun (%x) @%d
%s: jabber (%x)
%s: receive stalled
%s: too many segments,
%s: uplistptr was 0
  host too slow to serve incoming packets

# SEE ALSO

cardbus(4), exphy(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), mii(4), pci(4), ifconfig(8)

October 30, 2007 | NetBSD 11.0