Section 4 of the manual describes special files (devices).
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- if_gem
- gem — ERI/GEM/GMAC Ethernet device driver
- if_gif
- gif — generic tunnel interface
- if_gre
- gre — encapsulating network device
- if_hme
- hme — Sun Microelectronics STP2002-STQ Ethernet interfaces device driver
- if_iavf
- iavf — Intel Adaptive Virtual Function driver
- if_ipheth
- ipheth — USB Apple iPhone/iPad tethered Ethernet driver
- if_ipsec
- IPsec virtual tunneling interface
- if_ipw
- ipw — Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11 driver
- if_iwi
- iwi — Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11 driver
- if_iwm
- iwm — Intel IEEE 802.11ac wireless network driver
- if_iwn
- iwn — Intel IEEE 802.11n wireless network driver
- if_ix
- ixgbe — Intel(R) 10Gb Ethernet driver for the FreeBSD operating system
- if_ixgbe
- ixgbe — Intel(R) 10Gb Ethernet driver for the FreeBSD operating system
- if_ixl
- ixl — Intel Ethernet 700 Series Driver
- if_jme
- jme — JMicron Gigabit/Fast Ethernet driver
- if_kue
- kue — Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101B USB Ethernet driver
- if_lagg
- lagg — link aggregation and link failover interface
- if_le
- le — AMD Am7900 LANCE and Am79C9xx ILACC/PCnet Ethernet interface driver
- if_lge
- lge — Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver
- if_malo
- malo — Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network driver
- if_mn
- mn — Siemens Easy321-R1 E1/T1 device driver
- if_mos
- mos — Moschip MCS7730/MCS7830/MCS7832 USB Ethernet driver
- if_msk
- msk — Marvell/SysKonnect Yukon II Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver
- if_mwl
- mwl — Marvell 88W8363 IEEE 802.11n wireless network driver
- if_mxge
- mxge — Myricom Myri10GE 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver
- if_my
- my — Myson Technology Ethernet PCI driver
- if_ndis
- ndis — NDIS miniport driver wrapper
- if_nf10bmac
- netfpga10g_nf10bmac — driver for the NetFPGA-10G Embedded CPU Ethernet Core
- if_nfe
- nfe — NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet driver
- if_nge
- nge — National Semiconductor PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver
- if_otus
- otus — Atheros AR9170 USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless network device
- if_pcn
- pcn — AMD PCnet/PCI Fast Ethernet device driver
- if_ptnet
- ptnet — Ethernet driver for passed-through netmap ports
- if_ral
- ral — Ralink Technology IEEE 802.11a/g/n wireless network device
- if_re
- re — RealTek 8139C+/8169/816xS/811xS/8168/810xE/8111 PCI/PCIe Ethernet adapter driver
- if_rl
- rl — RealTek 8129/8139 Fast Ethernet device driver
- if_rsu
- rsu — Realtek RTL8188SU/RTL8192SU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless network device
- if_rtwn_pci
- rtwn_pci — Realtek PCI device glue
- if_rtwn_usb
- rtwn_usb — Realtek USB device glue
- if_rue
- rue — RealTek RTL8150 USB to Fast Ethernet controller driver
- if_rum
- rum — Ralink Technology USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless network device
- if_run
- run — Ralink Technology USB IEEE 802.11a/g/n wireless network device
- if_sbni
- sbni — Granch SBNI12 leased line modem driver
- if_sf
- sf — Adaptec AIC-6915 “Starfire” PCI Fast Ethernet adapter driver
- if_sge
- sge — Silicon Integrated Systems SiS190/191 Fast/Gigabit Ethernet driver
- if_sis
- sis — SiS 900, SiS 7016 and NS DP83815/DP83816 Fast Ethernet device driver
- if_sk
- sk — SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver
- if_smsc
- smsc — USB SMSC LAN9xxx Fast Ethernet driver
- if_sn
- sn — Ethernet driver for SMC91Cxx based cards
- if_ste
- ste — Sundance Technologies ST201 Fast Ethernet device driver
- if_stf
- stf — 6to4 tunnel interface
- if_stge
- stge — Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver
- if_tap
- tap , vmnet — Ethernet tunnel software network interface
- if_ti
- ti — Alteon Networks Tigon I and Tigon II Gigabit Ethernet driver
- if_tl
- tl — Texas Instruments ThunderLAN Ethernet device driver
- if_tun
- tun — tunnel software network interface
- if_tx
- tx — SMC 83c17x Fast Ethernet device driver
- if_txp
- txp — 3Com 3XP Typhoon/Sidewinder (3CR990) Ethernet interface
- if_uath
- uath — Atheros USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless network device
- if_udav
- udav — Davicom DM9601 USB Ethernet driver
- if_upgt
- upgt — Conexant/Intersil PrismGT SoftMAC USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device
- if_ural
- ural — Ralink Technology RT2500USB IEEE 802.11 driver
- if_ure
- ure — RealTek RTL8152/RTL8153 USB to Ethernet controller driver
- if_urndis
- urndis — USB Remote NDIS Ethernet device
- if_urtw
- urtw — Realtek RTL8187B/L USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device
- if_vcc
- cxgbe — Chelsio T4-, T5-, and T6-based 100Gb, 40Gb, 25Gb, 10Gb, and 1Gb Ethernet adapter driver
- if_vcxgbe
- cxgbe — Chelsio T4-, T5-, and T6-based 100Gb, 40Gb, 25Gb, 10Gb, and 1Gb Ethernet adapter driver
- if_vcxl
- cxgbe — Chelsio T4-, T5-, and T6-based 100Gb, 40Gb, 25Gb, 10Gb, and 1Gb Ethernet adapter driver
- if_vge
- vge — VIA Networking Technologies Velocity Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver
- if_vlan
- vlan — IEEE 802.1Q VLAN network interface
- if_vmnet
- tap , vmnet — Ethernet tunnel software network interface
- if_vmx
- vmx — VMware VMXNET3 Virtual Interface Controller device
- if_vr
- vr — VIA Technologies Rhine I/II/III Ethernet device driver
- if_vte
- vte — Vortex86 RDC R6040 Fast Ethernet driver
- if_vtnet
- vtnet — VirtIO Ethernet driver
- if_vxlan
- vxlan — Virtual eXtensible LAN interface
- if_wb
- wb — Winbond W89C840F Fast Ethernet device driver
- if_wi
- wi — Lucent Hermes, and Intersil PRISM IEEE 802.11 driver
- if_wpi
- wpi — Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN IEEE 802.11 driver
- if_xe
- xe — Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet device driver
- if_xl
- xl — 3Com Etherlink XL and Fast Etherlink XL Ethernet device driver
- if_zyd
- zyd — ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device
- iflib
- Network Interface Driver Framework
- ifmib
- Management Information Base for network interfaces
- ig4
- Synopsys DesignWare I2C Controller
- igmp
- Internet Group Management Protocol
- iic
- I2C generic I/O device driver
- iic_gpiomux
- driver for I2C mux hardware controlled via GPIO
- iicbb
- I2C generic bit-banging driver
- iicbus
- I2C bus system
- iicmux
- I2C bus mulitiplexer framework
- iicsmb
- I2C to SMB bridge
- iir
- Intel Integrated RAID controller and ICP Vortex driver
- imcsmb
- Intel integrated Memory Controller (iMC) SMBus controller driver
- imm
- vpo — parallel to SCSI interface driver
- inet
- Internet protocol family
- inet6
- Internet protocol version 6 family
- initrd
- boot loader initialized RAM disk
- inputtestdrv
- inputtest - An X.Org input driver for testing
- intel-virtual-output
- Utility for connecting the Integrated Intel GPU to discrete outputs