BCE(4) - Device Drivers Manual

BCE(4) - Device Drivers Manual #

BCE(4) - Device Drivers Manual

NAME #

bce - Broadcom BCM4401 10/100 Ethernet device

SYNOPSIS #

bce* at pci? bmtphy* at mii?

DESCRIPTION #

The bce provides support for the Broadcom BCM4401 10/100 Ethernet card.

The following media types and options (as given to ifconfig(8)) are supported:

media autoselect

Enable autoselection of the media type and options (default).

media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex

Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation and force full-duplex mode.

media 100baseTX mediaopt half-duplex

Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation and force half-duplex mode.

media 10baseT mediaopt full-duplex

Set 10Mbps operation and force full-duplex.

media 10baseT mediaopt half-duplex

Set 10Mbps operation and force half-duplex.

If no media options are present, the bce driver places the card into autoselect mode.

SEE ALSO #

arp(4), bmtphy(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), mii(4), netintro(4), pci(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY #

The bce driver appeared in NetBSD 1.6.2. OpenBSD support was added in OpenBSD 3.5.

AUTHORS #

The bce driver was written by Cliff Wright <cliff@snipe444.org> and ported to OpenBSD by Nathan L. Binkert <binkertn@umich.edu>.

OpenBSD 7.5 - July 16, 2013