NAME

sgeSilicon Integrated Systems SiS190/191 Fast/Gigabit Ethernet driver

SYNOPSIS

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
device miibus
device sge
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
if_sge_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

The sge device driver provides support for SiS190 Fast Ethernet controllers and SiS191 Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controllers.
All LOMs supported by the sge driver have TCP/UDP/IP checksum offload for transmit and receive, TCP segmentation offload (TSO), hardware VLAN tag stripping/insertion features. Due to lack of documentation Wake On Lan (WOL), Jumbo frame and an interrupt moderation mechanism are not supported yet.
The sge driver supports the following media types:
autoselect
Enable autoselection of the media type and options. The user can manually override the autoselected mode by adding media options to rc.conf(5).
10baseT/UTP
Set 10Mbps operation.
100baseTX
Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
1000baseTX
Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair.
The sge driver supports the following media options:
full-duplex
Force full duplex operation.
half-duplex
Force half duplex operation.
For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).

HARDWARE

The sge device driver provides support for the following Ethernet controllers:
  • SiS190 Fast Ethernet controller
  • SiS191 Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller

SEE ALSO

altq(4), arp(4), miibus(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), rgephy(4), vlan(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY

The sge driver was written by Alexander Pohoyda <[email protected]>. And enhanced by Nikolay Denev <[email protected]>. It first appeared in FreeBSD 8.1.

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