lge — Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver

       The lge driver was written by Bill Paul <william.paul@windriver.com>.

Debian                                            July 16, 2005                                           LGE(4)

       The  lge  driver  provides  support  for  various NICs based on the Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator Gigabit
       Ethernet controller chip.

       The LXT1001 supports fiber PHYs and also a GMII port for use with 10/100/1000 copper PHYs, however  there
       are currently no NICs on the market that use this feature.

       The  LXT1001  supports  TCP/IP  checksum offload for receive and VLAN-based filtering as well as a 64-bit
       multicast hash filter.  It also supports jumbo frames, which can be  configured  via  the  interface  MTU
       setting.   Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the ifconfig(8) utility configures the adapter to
       receive and transmit jumbo frames.  Using jumbo frames can greatly improve performance for certain tasks,
       such as file transfers and data streaming.

       The lge 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).

       1000baseSX  Set  1000baseSX operation over fiber optic cable.  Both full-duplex and half-duplex modes are
                   supported.

       The lge 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).

lge%d:couldn'tmapmemory  A fatal initialization error has occurred.

       lge%d:couldn'tmapports  A fatal initialization error has occurred.

       lge%d:couldn'tmapinterrupt  A fatal initialization error has occurred.

       lge%d:nomemoryforsoftcstruct!   The  driver  failed  to  allocate  memory  for  per-device  instance
       information during initialization.

       lge%d:failedtoenablememorymapping!  The driver failed to initialize PCI shared memory mapping.  This
       might happen if the card is not in a bus-master slot.

       lge%d:nomemoryforjumbobuffers!    The  driver failed to allocate memory for jumbo frames during
       initialization.

       lge%d:watchdogtimeout  The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with the
       network connection (cable).

       Adapters supported by the lge driver include:

       •   SMC TigerCard 1000 (SMC9462SX)
       •   D-Link DGE-500SX

       The lge device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.4.

       lge — Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver

arp(4), miibus(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), ifconfig(8)

       Level1LXT1001ProgrammingManual, https://www.FreeBSD.org/~wpaul/Level1/LXT1001SRM.pdf.

       To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

             devicemiibusdevicelge

       Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

             if_lge_load="YES"