NAME
nfe —
NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet
driver
SYNOPSIS
nfe* at pci?
ciphy* at mii?
icsphy* at mii?
makphy* at mii?
rlphy* at mii?
DESCRIPTION
The
nfe driver supports PCI Ethernet adapters based on the
NVIDIA nForce Media and Communications Processors (MCP), such as the nForce,
nForce 2, nForce 3, CK804, MCP04, MCP51, MCP55, MCP61, MCP65, MCP67 and MCP73
Ethernet controller chips.
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 ALSO
arp(4),
ciphy(4),
icsphy(4),
ifmedia(4),
intro(4),
netintro(4),
pci(4),
rlphy(4),
ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
The
nfe device driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 3.9. It was added to
NetBSD
3.1.
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.