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:
- Compaq Netelligent
- in baseboard and PCI variants (10BASE-T-only variant untested).
- Compaq NetFlex 3/P
- in baseboard variant only (the PCI variant doesn't use the same
chip!).
- It Baseboard Compaq Deskpro 4000 5233MMX Ethernet
- (This has been tested on the Deskpro 4000M only).
- TI TravelMate 5000 series laptop docking station's Ethernet board.
-
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.