9 DESCRIPTION
  10      The elxl driver provides support for the 3Com Etherlink XL family of
  11      Ethernet and Fast Ethernet PCI controllers.  These are often known by
  12      their part numbers, most often 3c905 or 3c900 variants.
  13 
  14      The 3c905 devices generally support some form of 100 Mbps Ethernet,
  15      whereas the 3c900 devices usually only support 10 Mbps.  Some devices
  16      support legacy media such as 10BASE-15, 10BASE-2, and even 10BASE-FL.
  17      Where applicable, the devices support auto-negotiation, both full and
  18      half duplex, etc.  They also support full size MTUs (1500 bytes), even
  19      when used with VLANs.
  20 
  21      The device driver supports the ieee802.3(5) properties, which can be
  22      configured with dladm(1M).
  23 
  24      In addition, for devices with multiple external media ports, the driver
  25      supports a driver-specific dladm(1M) property called media, which can
  26      take one of the following values, depending on the available media
  27      options on the device:
  28 
  29            mii     Media Indendent Interface (MII), also 100BASE-TX
  30            tp-hdx  10 Mbps twisted pair, half-duplex
  31            tp-fdx  10 Mbps twisted pair full-duplex
  32            fx-hdx  100BASE-FX (fiber), half-duplex
  33            fx-hdx  100BASE-FX (fiber), full-duplex
  34            bnc     10BASE-2 (BNC, aka "thin-net")
  35            aui     10BASE-15 (aka "thick-net")
  36            fl-hdx  10BASE-FL (fiber), half-duplex
  37            fl-fdx  10BASE-FL (fiber), full-duplex
  38 
  39      The specific media options available can be queried with the device-
  40      specific available_media dladm(1M) property.
  41 
  42 FILES
  43      /dev/elxl  Special character device.
  44 
  45 SEE ALSO
  46      dladm(1M), ifconfig(1M), pci(4), ieee802.3(5), dlpi(7P)
  47 
  48      IEEE 802.3: Ethernet, IEEE Standards Association.
  49 
  50 illumos                         August 7, 2014                         illumos

   9 DESCRIPTION
  10      The elxl driver provides support for the 3Com Etherlink XL family of
  11      Ethernet and Fast Ethernet PCI controllers.  These are often known by
  12      their part numbers, most often 3c905 or 3c900 variants.
  13 
  14      The 3c905 devices generally support some form of 100 Mbps Ethernet,
  15      whereas the 3c900 devices usually only support 10 Mbps.  Some devices
  16      support legacy media such as 10BASE-15, 10BASE-2, and even 10BASE-FL.
  17      Where applicable, the devices support auto-negotiation, both full and
  18      half duplex, etc.  They also support full size MTUs (1500 bytes), even
  19      when used with VLANs.
  20 
  21      The device driver supports the ieee802.3(5) properties, which can be
  22      configured with dladm(1M).
  23 
  24      In addition, for devices with multiple external media ports, the driver
  25      supports a driver-specific dladm(1M) property called media, which can
  26      take one of the following values, depending on the available media
  27      options on the device:
  28 
  29            mii     Media Independent Interface (MII), also 100BASE-TX
  30            tp-hdx  10 Mbps twisted pair, half-duplex
  31            tp-fdx  10 Mbps twisted pair full-duplex
  32            fx-hdx  100BASE-FX (fiber), half-duplex
  33            fx-hdx  100BASE-FX (fiber), full-duplex
  34            bnc     10BASE-2 (BNC, aka "thin-net")
  35            aui     10BASE-15 (aka "thick-net")
  36            fl-hdx  10BASE-FL (fiber), half-duplex
  37            fl-fdx  10BASE-FL (fiber), full-duplex
  38 
  39      The specific media options available can be queried with the device-
  40      specific available_media dladm(1M) property.
  41 
  42 FILES
  43      /dev/elxl  Special character device.
  44 
  45 SEE ALSO
  46      dladm(1M), ifconfig(1M), pci(4), ieee802.3(5), dlpi(7P)
  47 
  48      IEEE 802.3: Ethernet, IEEE Standards Association.
  49 
  50 illumos                        January 10, 2020                        illumos