NFE(4) OpenBSD Programmer's Manual NFE(4)NAMEnfe - NVIDIA nForce MCP 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device
SYNOPSIS
nfe* at pci?
atphy* at mii?
brgphy* at mii?
ciphy* at mii?
eephy* at mii?
icsphy* at mii?
rgephy* at mii?
rlphy* at mii?
DESCRIPTION
The nfe driver supports Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet adapters based
on the NVIDIA nForce Media and Communications Processors (MCP), the
nForce, nForce 2, nForce 3, CK804, MCP04, MCP51, MCP55, MCP61, MCP65,
MCP67, MCP73, MCP77, MCP79 and MCP89 Ethernet controller chips.
The nfe driver supports IPv4 transmit/receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload
with the nForce 3, CK804, MCP55, MCP77, MCP79 and MCP89 chipsets and VLAN
tag insertion and stripping with the MCP55 chipset.
The nfe driver supports the following media types:
autoselect Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
10baseT Set 10Mbps operation.
100baseTX Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
1000baseT Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation (recent models
only).
SEE ALSOarp(4), atphy(4), brgphy(4), ciphy(4), eephy(4), icsphy(4), ifmedia(4),
intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), rgephy(4), rlphy(4), hostname.if(5),
ifconfig(8)HISTORY
The nfe device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 3.9.
AUTHORS
The nfe driver was written by Jonathan Gray <jsg@openbsd.org> and Damien
Bergamini <damien@openbsd.org>.
CAVEATS
NVIDIA refuse to release any documentation on their products.
OpenBSD 4.9 August 8, 2009 OpenBSD 4.9