hme(4)

hme4

Sun happy meal 10/100 ethernet device

Usage

hme* at pci? hme* at sbus? luphy* at mii? nsphy* at mii? qsphy* at mii?

Overview

The hme driver provides support for various NICs based on the Sun Happy Meal Ethernet controller chips, including the following:

  • Sun FastEthernet PCI

  • Sun FastEthernet SBus

  • Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI

  • Sun Quad FastEthernet SBus

  • Sun SunSwift PCI

  • Sun SunSwift SBus

The hme driver 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 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex

Use 100baseTX, full duplex

media 100baseTX

Use 100baseTX, half duplex

media 10baseT mediaopt full-duplex

Use 10baseT, full duplex

media 10baseT

Use 10baseT, half duplex

Releases

49 releases since OpenBSD 3.3; the text changed 11 times.

  1. 3.3
  2. 3.4
  3. 3.5–3.6
  4. 3.7
  5. 3.8
  6. 3.9
  7. 4.0–4.1
  8. 4.2–4.4
  9. 4.5
  10. 4.6–5.7
  11. 5.8–6.6
  12. 6.7–8.0

History

OpenBSD support for the hme first appeared in OpenBSD 2.4.

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