Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:59:49 -0500 (EST) From: Larry Lile <lile@stdio.com> To: tokenring@freebsd.org Subject: Okay, I'm not a writer, but ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10003212250290.48709-100000@heathers.stdio.com>
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Work continues on the oltr driver, but I needed a diversion for a little while. Here is a first pass of a man page for the oltr driver. Anybody have suggestions, improvments or questions about it? Larry lile@stdio.com .\" Copyright (c) 2000 .\" Larry Lile <lile@stdio.com>. All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" 3. Neither the name of the author nor the names of any co-contributors .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software .\" without specific prior written permission. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" .Dd March 22, 2000 .Dt OLTR 4 .Os FreeBSD .Sh NAME .Nm oltr .Nd Olicom token-ring adapter device driver .Sh SYNOPSIS .Cd "device oltr0" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm driver provides support for PCI token-ring adapters. This includes the OC-3136, OC-3137, OC-3140, OC-3140 and OC-3540. .Pp The .Nm driver supports the following media types: .Pp .Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx .It autoselect Enable autoselection of the media type and options. Note that this option is only available with the OC-3139, OC-3140, OC-3141 and OC-3540. For all other adapters, the driver will default to 16Mbps. The user can change this by adding media options to the .Pa /etc/rc.conf file. .It UTP/100Mbps Set 100Mbps operation. Note that this options is only avaiable with the OC-3540. .It UTP/16Mbps Set 16Mbps operation. .It UTP/4Mpbs Set 4Mpbs operation. .El .Pp NOTE: The adapter card will automatically switch between media connectors, there is no need to specify DB9, STP, UTP or fiber. .Pp The .Nm driver does not support media options at this time. .Pp For more information on configuring this device, see .Xr ifconfig 8 . .Sh DIAGNOSTICS .Bl -diag .It "oltr%d: %s" The driver is very noisy, and produces many strange diagnostic messages. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr arp 4 , .Xr netintro 4 , .Xr ifconfig 8 , .Sh BUGS Lots of them i'm sure, please report them to .An Larry Lile .Aq lile@stdio.com . .Pp Media type selection is currently broken. .Pp ISA cards are no longer supported by the driver. They will be restored when time permits. .Sh HISTORY The .Nm device driver first appeared in .Fx 3.3 . .Sh AUTHORS The .Nm driver was written by .An Larry Lile Aq lile@stdio.com . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-tokenring" in the body of the message
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