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| author | Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-04-14 19:40:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-04-14 19:40:08 +0000 |
| commit | bd43efdba20f48be5aaad5463b730ee3e21ee75f (patch) | |
| tree | c9cdc570d762757c17581cba8e449597e52932e2 /share | |
| parent | 35871a15c5fd5f481b1cc7ab291e2285523d344e (diff) | |
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Diffstat (limited to 'share')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/man4.i386/pn.4 | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/pn.4 | 19 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/pn.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/pn.4 index 813fb5d82cfe..acdb26a62d20 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/pn.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/pn.4 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF .\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $Id: pn.4,v 1.2 1998/12/05 09:31:25 rnordier Exp $ +.\" $Id: pn.4,v 1.4 1999/04/14 19:02:39 wpaul Exp $ .\" .Dd November 7, 1998 .Dt PN 4 i386 @@ -150,12 +150,11 @@ The driver was written by .An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu . .Sh BUGS -The -.Nm -driver currently only supports cards with external transceivers -connected to the PNIC controller via its MII bus. This is because -the author had no boards available for testing which made use of the -internal transceiver. Most of the PNIC implementations on the market -today use an external PHY, so hopefully this will not present any -serious problems. Code to support the internal transceiver may be -added later if hardware becomes available. +The internal NWAY support on the 82c168 chip is horribly broken, which +means that autoselection will not work, except maybe for half-duplex +10Mbps links. In order to use other modes (e.g. 100Mbps) it will be +necessary to +use +.Xr ifconfig 8 +to set the interface manually. Autoselection for 82c169 boards using +MII transceivers should work correctly. diff --git a/share/man/man4/pn.4 b/share/man/man4/pn.4 index 813fb5d82cfe..acdb26a62d20 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/pn.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/pn.4 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF .\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $Id: pn.4,v 1.2 1998/12/05 09:31:25 rnordier Exp $ +.\" $Id: pn.4,v 1.4 1999/04/14 19:02:39 wpaul Exp $ .\" .Dd November 7, 1998 .Dt PN 4 i386 @@ -150,12 +150,11 @@ The driver was written by .An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu . .Sh BUGS -The -.Nm -driver currently only supports cards with external transceivers -connected to the PNIC controller via its MII bus. This is because -the author had no boards available for testing which made use of the -internal transceiver. Most of the PNIC implementations on the market -today use an external PHY, so hopefully this will not present any -serious problems. Code to support the internal transceiver may be -added later if hardware becomes available. +The internal NWAY support on the 82c168 chip is horribly broken, which +means that autoselection will not work, except maybe for half-duplex +10Mbps links. In order to use other modes (e.g. 100Mbps) it will be +necessary to +use +.Xr ifconfig 8 +to set the interface manually. Autoselection for 82c169 boards using +MII transceivers should work correctly. |
