NAME
bfe —
Broadcom BCM4401 Ethernet Device
Driver
SYNOPSIS
device miibus
device bfe
DESCRIPTION
Thebfe driver provides support for Broadcom BCM4401
based Fast Ethernet adapters.
The bfe driver supports the following
media types:
- autoselect
- Enable autoselection of the media type and options
- 10baseT/UTP
- Set 10Mbps operation
- 100baseTX
- Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation
The bfe driver supports the following
media options:
- full-duplex
- Set full duplex operation
For further information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).
DIAGNOSTICS
- bfe%d: couldn't map memory
- A fatal initialization error has occurred.
- bfe%d: couldn't map interrupt
- A fatal initialization error has occurred.
- bfe%d: failed to allocate DMA resources
- There are not enough mbufs available for allocation.
- bfe%d: watchdog timeout -- resetting
- The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with the network connection (cable).
SEE ALSO
arp(4), ifmedia(4), miibus(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
The bfe device driver first appeared in
FreeBSD 5.1.
AUTHORS
The bfe device driver was written by
Stuart Walsh and Duncan
Barclay. This manual page was written by Stuart
Walsh.