NAME¶
hme
—
Sun Microelectronics STP2002-STQ Ethernet interfaces
device driver
SYNOPSIS¶
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel
configuration file:
device miibus
device hme
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following
line in
loader.conf(5):
DESCRIPTION¶
The
hme
driver supports Sun Microelectronics
STP2002-STQ “Happy Meal Ethernet” Fast Ethernet interfaces.
All controllers supported by the
hme
driver
have TCP checksum offload capability for both receive and transmit, support
for the reception and transmission of extended frames for
vlan(4) and a 128-bit multicast hash filter.
HARDWARE¶
The
hme
driver supports the on-board Ethernet
interfaces of many Sun UltraSPARC workstation and server models.
Cards supported by the
hme
driver include:
- Sun PCI SunSwift Adapter (“SUNW,hme”)
- Sun SBus SunSwift Adapter (“hme” and
“SUNW,hme”)
- Sun PCI Sun100BaseT Adapter 2.0 (“SUNW,hme”)
- Sun SBus Sun100BaseT 2.0 (“SUNW,hme”)
- Sun PCI Quad FastEthernet Controller (“SUNW,qfe”)
- Sun SBus Quad FastEthernet Controller (“SUNW,qfe”)
NOTES¶
On sparc64 the
hme
driver respects the
local-mac-address? system configuration
variable which can be set in the Open Firmware boot monitor using the
setenv
command or by
eeprom(8). If set to
“
false
” (the default), the
hme
driver will use the system's default
MAC address for all of its devices. If set to
“
true
”, the unique MAC address of each
interface is used if present rather than the system's default MAC address.
Supported interfaces having their own MAC address include on-board versions on
boards equipped with more than one Ethernet interface and all add-on cards
except the single-port SBus versions.
SEE ALSO¶
altq(4),
intro(4),
miibus(4),
netintro(4),
vlan(4),
eeprom(8),
ifconfig(8)
Sun Microelectronics,
STP2002QFP Fast Ethernet, Parallel Port, SCSI (FEPS) User's
Guide,
http://mediacast.sun.com/users/Barton808/media/STP2002QFP-FEPs_UG.pdf,
April 1996.
HISTORY¶
The
hme
driver first appeared in
NetBSD 1.5. The first
FreeBSD
version to include it was
FreeBSD 5.0.
AUTHORS¶
The
hme
driver was written by
Paul Kranenburg
⟨pk@NetBSD.org⟩.