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NAME¶
nve
—
NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter device
driver
SYNOPSIS¶
Warning: This driver is deprecated and will not be available in FreeBSD 11.0 and later. Please consider using the nfe(4) driver instead. To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:device miibus
device nve
if_nve_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION¶
Thenve
driver provides support for the
NVIDIA nForce MCP and nForce2 MCP2 networking adapter that is embedded in the
southbridge of most nForce and nForce2 motherboards.
This driver is a reimplementation of the NVIDIA supported Linux
nvnet
driver and uses the same closed
source API library to access the underlying hardware. There is currently no
programming documentation available for this device, and therefore little is
known about the internal architecture of the MAC engine itself.
The nve
driver supports the following media
types:
autoselect
- Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
10baseT/UTP
- Set 10Mbps operation.
100baseTX
- Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
1000baseTX
- Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
nve
driver supports the following media
options:
full-duplex
- Set full duplex operation.
HARDWARE¶
Thenve
driver supports the NVIDIA MCP
onboard adapters of mainboards with the following chipsets:
- nForce
- nForce2
- nForce3
- nForce4
DIAGNOSTICS¶
- nve%d: couldn't map memory
- A fatal initialization error has occurred.
- nve%d: couldn't map interrupt
- A fatal initialization error has occurred.
- nve%d: failed to allocate memory
- There are not enough mbufs available for allocation.
- nve%d: device timeout
- The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with the network connection (cable).
SEE ALSO¶
altq(4), arp(4), miibus(4), netintro(4), nfe(4), ng_ether(4), rgephy(4), ifconfig(8)HISTORY¶
Thenve
driver first appeared in
FreeBSD 6.0.
AUTHORS¶
Thenve
driver was written by
Quinton Dolan
⟨q@onthenet.com.au⟩ and David E.
O'Brien ⟨obrien@FreeBSD.org⟩.
BUGS¶
There are reports that when the card is in auto select mode, ifconfig output reports a 10baseT/UTP output while the LEDs and bandwidth show that the card is actually in 100baseTX mode.February 13, 2014 | Debian |