NAME
epic – SMC 83C170 (EPIC/100) 10/100 Ethernet device
SYNOPSIS
epic* at pci? acphy* at mii? lxtphy* at mii? qsphy* at mii?
DESCRIPTION
The epic interface provides access to the 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s Ethernet networks via the SMC EPIC chipset. This driver provides support for the SMC EtherPower II 10/100 Ethernet cards.
The epic supports several media types, which are selected via the ifconfig(8) command. The supported media types are:
- media autoselect
-
Attempt to autoselect the media type (default)
- media 100baseFX mediaopt full-duplex
-
Use 100baseFX (fiber), full duplex
- media 100baseFX mediaopt half-duplex
-
Use 100baseFX (fiber), half duplex
- media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
-
Use 100baseTX, full duplex
- media 100baseTX mediaopt half-duplex
-
Use 100baseTX, half duplex
- media 100baseTX mediaopt loopback
-
Put the interface into loopback mode
- media 10baseT mediaopt full-duplex
-
Use 10baseT, full duplex
- media 10baseT mediaopt half-duplex
-
Use 10baseT, half duplex
- media 10baseT mediaopt loopback
-
Put the interface into loopback mode
SEE ALSO
acphy(4), arp(4), ifmedia(4), inet(4), intro(4), lxtphy(4), netintro(4), pci(4), qsphy(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
The epic device driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.4. OpenBSD support was added in OpenBSD 3.8.
AUTHORS
The epic driver was written by Jason R. Thorpe ⟨[email protected]⟩ and ported to OpenBSD by Brad Smith ⟨[email protected]⟩.