xe(4)

xe4

Xircom-based 16-bit pcmcia 10/100 ethernet device

Usage

xe* at pcmcia? icsphy* at mii?

Overview

The xe interface provides access to a 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet network via a Xircom Ethernet card. The Ethernet cards known to be supported by the xe interface are:

Xircom Realport
Xircom CE3

However, most 16-bit Xircom Ethernet cards should work.

Releases

54 releases since OpenBSD 2.8; the text changed 6 times.

  1. 2.8
  2. 2.9–3.1
  3. 3.2–3.3
  4. 3.4–3.6
  5. 3.7–3.9
  6. 4.0–4.1
  7. 4.2–8.0

History

The xe driver appeared in OpenBSD 2.5.

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