NAME
nfe —
NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet
driver
SYNOPSIS
nfe* at pci?
ciphy* at mii?
icsphy* at mii?
makphy* at mii?
rlphy* at mii?
DESCRIPTION
Thenfe driver supports PCI Ethernet adapters based on
the NVIDIA nForce Media and Communications Processors (MCP), such as the
nForce, nForce 2, nForce 3, CK804, MCP04, MCP51, MCP55, MCP61, MCP65, MCP67
and MCP73 Ethernet controller chips.
The nfe driver supports the following
media types:
autoselect- Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
10baseT- Set 10Mbps operation.
100baseTX- Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
1000baseT- Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation (recent models only).
SEE ALSO
arp(4), ciphy(4), icsphy(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), rlphy(4), ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
The nfe device driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 3.9. It was added to NetBSD
3.1.
AUTHORS
The nfe driver was written by
Jonathan Gray ⟨jsg@openbsd.org⟩ and
Damien Bergamini
⟨damien@openbsd.org⟩.
CAVEATS
NVIDIA refuse to release any documentation on their products.