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tl
— Texas
Instruments ThunderLAN 10/100 Ethernet device
tl* at pci?
lxtphy* at mii?
mlphy* at mii?
nsphy* at mii?
tlphy* at mii?
The tl
driver provides support for PCI
Ethernet adapters based on the Texas Instruments ThunderLAN Ethernet
controller chip. This includes a large number of Compaq PCI-bus Ethernet
adapters as well as the integrated Ethernet controllers built in to several
models of Compaq Prosignia servers and Compaq Deskpro desktop machines. This
driver also supports the Olicom OC-2135/2138, OC-2325 and OC-2326 10/100 TX
UTP adapters and the Racore 8165 10/100baseTX and 8148
10baseT/100baseTX/100baseFX multi-personality cards.
The ThunderLAN controller has a standard MII interface that supports up to 32 physical interface devices (PHYs). It also has a built-in 10baseT PHY hardwired at MII address 31, which may be used in some 10Mbps-only hardware configurations. In 100Mbps configurations, a National Semiconductor DP83840A or other MII-compliant PHY may be attached to the ThunderLAN's MII bus. If a DP83840A or equivalent is available, the ThunderLAN chip can operate at either 100Mbps or 10Mbps in either half-duplex or full-duplex modes. The ThunderLAN's built-in PHY and the DP83840A also support autonegotiation.
The tl
driver supports the following media
types:
The tl
driver supports the following media
options:
Note that the 100baseTX media type is only available if supported by the PHY. For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).
arp(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), lxtphy(4), mlphy(4), netintro(4), nsphy(4), pci(4), tlphy(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)
The tl
device driver first appeared in
FreeBSD 2.2. OpenBSD support
first appeared in OpenBSD 2.4.
The tl
driver was written by
Bill Paul
<wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>.
July 16, 2013 | OpenBSD-current |