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
100baseFXmediaopt
full-duplex- Use 100baseFX (fiber), full duplex
media
100baseFXmediaopt
half-duplex- Use 100baseFX (fiber), half duplex
media
100baseTXmediaopt
full-duplex- Use 100baseTX, full duplex
media
100baseTXmediaopt
half-duplex- Use 100baseTX, half duplex
media
100baseTXmediaopt
loopback- Put the interface into loopback mode
media
10baseTmediaopt
full-duplex- Use 10baseT, full duplex
media
10baseTmediaopt
half-duplex- Use 10baseT, half duplex
media
10baseTmediaopt
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
<[email protected]>
and ported to OpenBSD by Brad
Smith
<[email protected]>.