ex(4)

NAME

ex – Ethernet device driver for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 and Pro/10+

SYNOPSIS

To compile support for the

ex driver into your kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:

Alternatively, to load the

ex driver at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

if_ex_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

The ex driver provides support for Ethernet adapters based on the Intel i82595 chip.

The card will be searched for in the I/O address range 0x200 - 0x3a0. If the IRQ will be read from the EEPROM on the card. For correct operation on newer cards the Plug-N-Play support should be disabled.

HARDWARE

The ex driver supports the following Ethernet adapters:

• Intel EtherExpress Pro/10

• Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+

• The Olicom OC2220

DIAGNOSTICS

ex%d: Intel EtherExpress Pro/10, address %6D, connector %s

The device probe found an installed card, and was able to correctly install the device driver.

ex%d: WARNING: board's EEPROM is configured for IRQ %d, using %d

The device probe detected that the board is configured for a different interrupt than the one specified in the kernel configuration file.

ex%d: invalid IRQ.

The device probe detected an invalid IRQ setting.

SEE ALSO

arp(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY

The ex device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.

AUTHORS

The ex device driver was written by Javier Martín Rueda. This manual page was written by David E. O'Brien.

BUGS

Currently the driver does not support multicast.