lc(4)

lc4

Dec etherworks iii 10/100 ethernet device

Usage

lc0 at isa? port 0x200 lc1 at isa? port 0x280

Overview

The lc device driver supports DEC EtherWORKS III Ethernet interfaces, which are based on the LEMAC Ethernet chip. This includes the DE203, DE204, and DE205.

Media selection

The EtherWORKS III series supports various combinations of media, depending on model. Some models also support media autoselect. Media is selected with ifconfig(8)'s ‘media’ directive.

Releases

52 releases since OpenBSD 3.0; the text changed 10 times.

  1. 3.0–3.1
  2. 3.2–3.3
  3. 3.4
  4. 3.5–3.6
  5. 3.7–3.8
  6. 3.9
  7. 4.0–4.1
  8. 4.2–4.3
  9. 4.4–5.0
  10. 5.1–5.3
  11. 5.4–8.0

History

The lc driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.3, OpenBSD support was added in OpenBSD 3.0.

Authors

The lc driver was written by Matt Thomas ⟨[email protected]⟩ and ported to OpenBSD by Niklas Hallqvist ⟨[email protected]⟩

Bugs

The lc does not currently support EISA LEMAC interfaces.

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