EPIC(4) - Device Drivers Manual #
EPIC(4) - Device Drivers Manual
NAME #
epic - SMC 83C170 (EPIC/100) 10/100 Ethernet device
SYNOPSIS #
epic* at pci? acphy* at mii? lxtphy* at mii? qsphy* at mii?
DESCRIPTION #
The
epic
interface provides access to the 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s Ethernet networks via the
SMC
EPIC
chipset.
This driver provides support for the
SMC
EtherPower II 10/100
Ethernet cards.
The epic supports several media types, which are selected via the ifconfig(8) command. The supported media types are:
media autoselect
Attempt to autoselect the media type (default)
media 100baseFX mediaopt full-duplex
Use 100baseFX (fiber), full duplex
media 100baseFX mediaopt half-duplex
Use 100baseFX (fiber), half duplex
media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
Use 100baseTX, full duplex
media 100baseTX mediaopt half-duplex
Use 100baseTX, half duplex
media 100baseTX mediaopt loopback
Put the interface into loopback mode
media 10baseT mediaopt full-duplex
Use 10baseT, full duplex
media 10baseT mediaopt half-duplex
Use 10baseT, half duplex
media 10baseT mediaopt loopback
Put the interface into loopback mode
SEE ALSO #
acphy(4), arp(4), ifmedia(4), inet(4), intro(4), lxtphy(4), netintro(4), pci(4), qsphy(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)
HISTORY #
The epic device driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.4. OpenBSD support was added in OpenBSD 3.8.
AUTHORS #
The epic driver was written by Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> and ported to OpenBSD by Brad Smith <brad@openbsd.org>.
OpenBSD 7.5 - March 21, 2022