NAME
ae —
Ethernet driver for DP8390-based NuBus
Ethernet boards
SYNOPSIS
ae* at nubus?
DESCRIPTION
Theae interface provides access to a 10 Mb/s Ethernet
network via the National Semiconductor DP8390 Ethernet chip set. This set
includes the DP83902.
Each of the host's network addresses is specified at boot time
with an SIOCSIFADDR
ioctl(2). The ae interface employs the
address resolution protocol described in
arp(4) to dynamically map between Internet and Ethernet addresses on
the local network.
HARDWARE
The ae interface is currently known to
support the following NuBus cards:
- Asante MacCon Series
- Asante MacCon-i Series
- Asante MacCON-III+ PDS card
- Farallon EtherMac Series
- Farallon EtherWave Series
- Apple EtherTalk NB
- 3Com EtherLink NB
DIAGNOSTICS
- ae%d at nubus%d: address %s, type %s %dKB memory.
- This is a normal autoconfiguration message noting the 6 byte physical Ethernet address of the adapter, its manufacturer, and how much buffer memory it has.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The ae interface first appeared in
NetBSD 1.0.