ex — Ethernet device driver for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 and Pro/10+
Contents
Bugs
Currently the driver does not support multicast.
The Silicom EtherSerial card's serial port does not currently work. The Olicom OC2232 PC Card should
work with the ex driver, but is currently completely broken.
Debian October 24, 2018 EX(4)
Deprecation Notice
The ex driver is not present in FreeBSD 13.0 and later. See
https://github.com/freebsd/fcp/blob/master/fcp-0101.md for more information.
Description
The ex driver provides support for Ethernet adapters based on the Intel i82595 chip.
On the ISA bus, the card will be searched for in the I/O address range 0x200 - 0x3a0. The IRQ will be
read from the EEPROM on the card. For correct operation Plug-N-Play support should be disabled.
On the PC Card bus, the card will be automatically recognized and configured.
Diagnostics
ex%d:IntelEtherExpressPro/10,address%6D,connector%s The device probe found an installed card, and
was able to correctly install the device driver.
ex%d:WARNING:board'sEEPROMisconfiguredforIRQ%d,using%d The device probe detected that the
board is configured for a different interrupt than the one specified in the kernel configuration file.
ex%d:invalidIRQ. The device probe detected an invalid IRQ setting.
Hardware
The ex driver supports the following Ethernet adapters:
• Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 ISA
• Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA
• Olicom OC2220 Ethernet PC Card
• Olicom OC2232 Ethernet/Modem PC Card
• Silicom Ethernet LAN PC Card
• Silicom EtherSerial LAN PC Card
History
The ex device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.
Name
ex — Ethernet device driver for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 and Pro/10+
See Also
arp(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), ifconfig(8)
Synopsis
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:
deviceex
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
if_ex_load="YES"
