bce(4)

bce4

Broadcom bcm4401 10/100 ethernet device

Usage

bce* at pci? bmtphy* at mii?

Overview

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.

Releases

47 releases since OpenBSD 3.5; the text changed 10 times.

  1. 3.5
  2. 3.6
  3. 3.7
  4. 3.8
  5. 3.9
  6. 4.0–4.1
  7. 4.2–4.3
  8. 4.4
  9. 4.5–4.9
  10. 5.0–5.3
  11. 5.4–8.0

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 ⟨[email protected]⟩ and ported to OpenBSD by Nathan L. Binkert ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.