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authorBill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org>1999-04-14 19:40:08 +0000
committerBill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org>1999-04-14 19:40:08 +0000
commitbd43efdba20f48be5aaad5463b730ee3e21ee75f (patch)
treec9cdc570d762757c17581cba8e449597e52932e2 /share
parent35871a15c5fd5f481b1cc7ab291e2285523d344e (diff)
Notes
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.i386/pn.419
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/pn.419
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.