Author: imp Date: Fri Apr 10 15:01:48 2009 New Revision: 190896 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/190896
Log: Updates based on my testing of the cards. Modified: head/share/man/man4/ed.4 Modified: head/share/man/man4/ed.4 ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man4/ed.4 Fri Apr 10 14:41:51 2009 (r190895) +++ head/share/man/man4/ed.4 Fri Apr 10 15:01:48 2009 (r190896) @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd March 28, 2009 +.Dd April 9, 2009 .Dt ED 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -66,12 +66,6 @@ Tamarack's TC5299J chips all support int Realtek's PCI and ISA RTL80x9-based cards are also supported. For these chipsets, autonegotiation and status reporting are supported. .Pp -The -.Nm -driver uses a unique multi-buffering mechanism to achieve high transmit performance. -When using 16bit ISA cards, as high as 97% of the theoretical maximum performance of -the IEEE 802.3 CSMA Ethernet is possible. -.Pp In addition to the standard port and IRQ specifications, the .Nm driver also supports a number of @@ -183,7 +177,7 @@ Danpex EN-6200P2 .It D-Link DE-298, DE-298P (flags 0x500000) (PC-98) .It -D-Link DE-650/660 +D-Link DE-660, DE-660+ .It D-Link IC-CARD/IC-CARD+ Ethernet .It @@ -317,6 +311,8 @@ driver does not support the following Et .Bl -bullet -compact .It Mitsubishi LAN Adapter B8895 +.It +D-Link DE-650 .El .Sh DIAGNOSTICS .Bl -diag @@ -373,6 +369,8 @@ The device is using a different I/O port Attempts to get the MAC address failed. .It "ed%d: Missing mii!" Probing for an MII bus has failed. +This indicates a coding error in the PC Card attachment, because a PHY +is required for the chips that generate this error message. .El .Sh CAVEATS Early revision DS8390 chips have problems. @@ -393,18 +391,17 @@ on the 16bit cards. This can lead to ring-buffer overruns resulting in dropped packets during heavy network traffic. .Pp -16bit Compex cards identify themselves as being 8bit. -While these cards will -work in 8bit mode, much higher performance can be achieved by specifying -.Cd "flags 0x04" -(force 16bit mode) in your kernel config file. -In addition, you should also specify -.Cd "iosiz 16384" -to take advantage of the extra 8K of shared memory that 16bit mode provides. -.Pp The Mitsubishi B8895 PC Card uses a DP83902, but its ASIC part is undocumented. Neither the NE2000 nor the WD83x0 drivers work with this card. +.Pp +The D-LINK DE-650 has funky resources that differ from other cards and could +likely be made to work. +Its shared memory interface conflicts with other resources on many +laptops and cannot be moved. +The pccard(4) layer does not support activating a CFE that it fails to +allocate all the resources for. +.Pp .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr altq 4 , .Xr arp 4 , @@ -431,7 +428,9 @@ packets are received. As a result, it may throw out some good packets which have been received but not yet transferred from the card to main memory. .Pp -The -.Nm +The +.Nm +driver is slow by today's standards. +.Pp PC Card attachment supports the D-Link DMF650TX LAN/Modem card's Ethernet port only at this time. _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
