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
OpenBSD3.9.
It was added to
NetBSD3.1.
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.