NAME
miibus – IEEE 802.3 Media Independent Interface network bus
SYNOPSIS
For most network interface cards (NIC): device miibus
DESCRIPTION
The miibus driver provides an interconnection between the Media Access Control (MAC) sublayer, the Physical Layer entities (PHY), Station Management (STA) entities, and the PHY Layer as defined by the IEEE 802.3 Standard.
The miibus layer allows network device drivers to share common support code for various external PHY devices. Most 10/100 network interface cards either use an MII transceiver or have built-in transceivers that can be programmed using an MII interface. The miibus driver currently handles all of the media detection, selection, and reporting using the ifmedia interface. A generic driver has been included for all PHYs that are not handled by a specific driver, this is possible because all 10/100 PHYs implement the same general register set along with their vendor specific register set.
The following network device drivers use the miibus interface:
- aue(4)
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ADMtek USB Ethernet
- axe(4)
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ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB Ethernet
- bfe(4)
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Broadcom BCM4401 Ethernet
- bge(4)
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Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet
- dc(4)
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DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes
- ed(4)
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NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390 cards
- fxp(4)
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Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B
- gem(4)
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Sun ERI, Sun GEM and Apple GMAC Ethernet
- hme(4)
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Sun HME Ethernet
- lge(4)
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Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator Gigabit Ethernet
- my(4)
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Myson Technologies PCI Ethernet adaptors
- nge(4)
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National Semiconductor DP83820/DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet
- nve(4)
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NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter
- pcn(4)
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AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100
- re(4)
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RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S
- rl(4)
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RealTek 8129/8139
- rue(4)
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RealTek RTL8150 USB To Fast Ethernet
- sf(4)
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Adaptec AIC-6915
- sis(4)
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Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016
- sk(4)
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SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x Gigabit Ethernet
- ste(4)
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Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX)
- tl(4)
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Texas Instruments ThunderLAN
- tx(4)
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SMC EtherPower II (83c170)
- udav(4)
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Davicom DM9601 USB Ethernet
- vge(4)
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VIA VT612x PCI Gigabit Ethernet
- vr(4)
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VIA Rhine, Rhine II
- wb(4)
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Winbond W89C840F
- xl(4)
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3Com 3c90x
COMPATIBILITY
The implementation of miibus was originally intended to have similar API interfaces to BSD/OS 3.0 and NetBSD, but as a result are not well behaved newbus device drivers.
SEE ALSO
arp(4), aue(4), axe(4), bfe(4), bge(4), dc(4), ed(4), fxp(4), gem(4), hme(4), lge(4), my(4), netintro(4), nge(4), nve(4), pcn(4), re(4), rl(4), rue(4), sf(4), sis(4), sk(4), ste(4), tl(4), tx(4), udav(4), vge(4), vr(4), wb(4), xl(4)
STANDARDS
More information on MII can be found in the IEEE 802.3 Standard.
HISTORY
The miibus driver first appeared in FreeBSD 3.3.
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Tom Rhodes ⟨[email protected]⟩.