ie4
Ethernet device driver
Usage
To compile support for the
ie driver into your kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:
device ie
Alternatively, to load the
ie driver at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
if_ie_load="YES"
In /boot/device.hints: hint.ie.0.at="isa" hint.ie.0.port="0x300" hint.ie.0.irq="5" hint.ie.0.maddr="0xd0000"
Hardware
The ie driver provides supports the following 8 and 16bit ISA Ethernet cards that are based on the Intel i82586 chip:
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3COM 3C507
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AT&T EN100
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AT&T Starlan 10
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AT&T Starlan Fiber
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Intel EtherExpress 16
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RACAL Interlan NI5210
Diagnostics
- ie%d: unknown board type code %d
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An i82586 chip was found, but the driver was unable to determine the actual board type during the probe.
- ie%d: kernel configured maddr %x doesn't match board configured maddr %x
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The device probe detected a different maddr than the one specified in the kernel configuration file.
- ie%d: can't find shared memory
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The device probe could not access the shared memory to determine its size.
- ie%d: kernel configured msize %d doesn't match board configured msize %d
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The device probe found a different size for the shared memory than the one specified in the kernel configuration file.
- ie%d: kernel configured irq %d doesn't match board configured irq %d
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The device probe detected that the board is configured for a different interrupt than the one specified in the kernel configuration file.
- ie%d: reset
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The Intel i82586 had to be reset by the driver.
- ie%d: transceiver problem
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The driver has detected a problem with the Ethernet transceiver. This is usually due to a loose or broken transceiver cable when using an external transceiver. When you experience this problem with an on-card transceiver your card may be incorrectly jumpered for to use an external transceiver. Worst case your on-board transceiver may be broken.
- ie%d: TDR detected an open %d clocks away
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The driver detected an open circuit in the Ethernet cable. Check your coax cable and terminator resistors.
- ie%d: TDR detected a short %d clocks away
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The driver detected a short circuit in the Ethernet cable. Check your coax cable and terminator resistors.
- ie%d: TDR returned unknown status %x
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The driver got an unknown status from the card during the Ethernet cable test.
- ie%d: multicast address setup command failed
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The card could not be put into multicast mode.
- ie%d: configure command failed
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The card refused to respond correctly during configuration.
- ie%d: individual address setup command failed
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The programming of the Ethernet (MAC) address failed.
Caveats
The Racal Interlan NI5210 comes in variants with 8 and 16 kbytes of shared memory. It is strongly advisable to use the 16 kbyte variant. You can upgrade your 8 kbyte card to 16 kbyte by adding an additional RAM chip.