NAME
tl —
Ethernet driver for Texas
Instruments ThunderLAN based board
SYNOPSIS
tl* at pci? dev ? function ?
Configuration of PHYs is necessary. See
mii(4).
DESCRIPTION
The
tl device driver supports network adapters based on the
Texas Instruments ThunderLAN chip.
HARDWARE
Supported cards include:
-
-
- Compaq Netelligent
- in baseboard and PCI variants (10BASE-T-only variant
untested).
-
-
- Compaq NetFlex 3/P
- in baseboard variant only (the PCI variant doesn't use the
same chip!).
-
-
- It Baseboard Compaq Deskpro
4000 5233MMX Ethernet
- (This has been tested on the Deskpro 4000M only).
-
-
- TI TravelMate 5000 series
laptop docking station's Ethernet board.
-
The different models of the supported boards come with some subset of RJ-45, BNC
and AUI connectors. Media selection is done using
ifconfig(8) using the standard
ifmedia(4) mechanism. Refer to
those manual pages for more information.
The
tl driver doesn't have full automatic media selection. By
default it will do an Nway (IEEE 802.3u) negotiation on the 10BASE-T port for
the speed and duplex mode with the link partner. If the AUI or BNC port is
used, an explicit media type must be specified to
ifconfig(8).
SEE ALSO
ifmedia(4),
mii(4),
netintro(4),
pci(4),
ifconfig(8)
BUGS
The board marked as untested will always claim having an AUI connector, where it
may be a BNC one.