sge4freebsd
Silicon integrated systems sis190/191 fast/gigabit ethernet driver
Part of if_sge(4freebsd).
Usage
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
device miibus device sge
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
if_sge_load="YES"
Overview
The sge device driver provides support for SiS190 Fast Ethernet controllers and SiS191 Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controllers.
All LOMs supported by the sge driver have TCP/UDP/IP checksum offload for transmit and receive, TCP segmentation offload (TSO), hardware VLAN tag stripping/insertion features. Due to lack of documentation Wake On Lan (WOL), Jumbo frame and an interrupt moderation mechanism are not supported yet.
The sge driver supports the following media types:
autoselect-
Enable autoselection of the media type and options. The user can manually override the autoselected mode by adding media options to rc.conf(5).
10baseT/UTP-
Set 10Mbps operation.
100baseTX-
Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
1000baseTX-
Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair.
The sge driver supports the following media options:
full-duplex-
Force full duplex operation.
half-duplex-
Force half duplex operation.
For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).
Hardware
The sge device driver provides support for the following Ethernet controllers:
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SiS190 Fast Ethernet controller
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SiS191 Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
Releases
8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 5 times.