NAME
pcn —
AMD PCnet-PCI Ethernet family
driver
SYNOPSIS
pcn* at pci? dev ? function ?
Configuration of PHYs may also be necessary. See
mii(4).
DESCRIPTION
The
pcn device driver supports Ethernet interfaces based on
the AMD PCnet-PCI family of Ethernet chips. The chips supported by the
pcn driver include:
- Am79c970 PCnet-PCI Single-Chip Ethernet Controller for
PCI Local Bus
- Am79c970A PCnet-PCI II Single-Chip Full-Duplex Ethernet
Controller for PCI Local Bus
- Am79c971 PCnet-FAST Single-Chip Full-Duplex 10/100Mbps
Ethernet Controller for PCI Local Bus
- Am79c972 PCnet-FAST+ Enhanced 10/100Mbps PCI Ethernet
Controller with OnNow Support
- Am79c973/Am79c975 PCnet-FAST III Single-Chip 10/100Mbps
PCI Ethernet Controller with Integrated PHY
PCnet-PCI chips are found on some Hewlett-Packard PCI Ethernet boards, and on
the Allied Telesyn AT-2700TX PCI Ethernet board. They are also found on some
processor evaluation boards as an example peripheral.
The
pcn driver also supports the emulated PCnet-PCI interface
provided by VMware.
SEE ALSO
arp(4),
ifmedia(4),
mii(4),
netintro(4),
pci(4),
ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
The
pcn driver first appeared in
NetBSD
1.6.
AUTHORS
The
pcn driver was written by
Jason R.
Thorpe ⟨thorpej@wasabisystems.com⟩.