de —
DEC DC21x4x (Tulip) 10/100 Ethernet device
The de device driver supports Ethernet adapters based on
the Digital Equipment DC21x4x based self-contained Ethernet chips. This
includes, among others, the following models:
- Asante
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- Cogent EM100FX and EM440TX
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- DEC PCI DE435, EISA DE425, DE450, DE500
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- older Linksys 10, 10/100
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- SMC 8432, 9332, 9334
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- ZNYX ZX3xx
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This driver may support other cards based on the 21040 and 21041
Ethernet controllers, or the 21140[A], 21141, 21142, and 21143 Fast Ethernet
controllers.
The de driver supports the following media
types:
- autoselect
- Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
- 10baseT
- Set 10Mbps operation on the 10baseT port.
- 10base2
- Set 10Mbps operation on the BNC port.
- 10base5
- Set 10Mbps operation on the AUI port.
- 100baseTX
- Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
- 100baseFX
- Set 100Mbps operation.
- 100baseT4
- Set 100Mbps operation (4-pair cat-3 cable).
The de driver supports the following media
options:
- full-duplex
- Set full duplex operation for UTP port.
For more information on configuring this device, see
ifconfig(8). To view a list of media
types and options supported by your card try ifconfig
<device> media. For example, ifconfig de0
media.
Note that the media types available depend on the particular card
in use. Some cards are explicitly programmed to a particular media type by a
setup utility and are not changeable.
The old “ifconfig linkN” method of configuration is
not supported.
- de0: waking device from sleep/snooze mode
- The 21041 and 21140A chips support suspending the operation of the
card.
- de0: error: desired IRQ of X does not match device's actual IRQ of Y
- The device probe detected that the board is configured for a different
interrupt than the one specified in the kernel configuration file.
- de0: not configured; limit of N reached or exceeded
- There is a limit of 32
de devices allowed in a
single machine.
- de0: not configured; 21040 pass 2.0 required (X.Y found)
- de0: not configured; 21140 pass 1.1 required (X.Y found)
- Certain revisions of the chipset are not supported by this driver.
The de device driver was written by
Matt Thomas. This manual page was written by
David E. O'Brien.
Since the 21040 is available on both EISA and PCI boards, one must be careful in
how one defines the 21040 in the kernel config file.