LE(4) - Device Drivers Manual (sparc64) #
LE(4) - Device Drivers Manual (sparc64)
NAME #
le, ledma, lebuffer - AMD LANCE Ethernet device
SYNOPSIS #
**ledma* at sbus? ** (onboard) **le* at ledma* ** (onboard) **le* at sbus? ** (SBus) **lebuffer* at sbus? ** (SBus) **le* at lebuffer? ** (SBus)
DESCRIPTION #
The
le
interface provides access to the 10 Mb/s
Ethernet
network via the
AMD
Am7990
Local Area Network Controller for Ethernet
(LANCE
)
chip set.
Different cards and machines have different kinds of connectors, as follows:
AUI/DIX
Standard 15 pin connector
10BaseT
UTP, also known as twisted pair
By default, the system will select the media type automatically, but the ifconfig(8) command can be used to force the media selection. The media types are shown below:
media autoselect
Attempt to autoselect the media type (default)
media 10base5
Use the AUI connector
media 10baseT
Use the twisted pair connector
NOTES #
Some SBus models, in particular the 501-1450 and 501-1881, have dip switches which must be changed to select between the BNC and AUI modes. For BNC, set 1-6 ON, 7-8 OFF; for AUI set 1-6 OFF, and 7-8 ON.
SEE ALSO #
arp(4), ifmedia(4), inet(4), intro(4), netintro(4), sbus(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)
HISTORY #
OpenBSD support for the le first appeared in OpenBSD 3.0.
OpenBSD 7.5 - November 21, 2015