1 .\" Written by Tom Rhodes for the FreeBSD Project.
2 .\" Please see the /usr/src/COPYRIGHT file for copyright information.
4 .\" This document takes information from the IEEE 802.3 Standard
5 .\" along with various comments from Peter Wemm, Robert Watson, and Bill Paul.
6 .\" Originally this file looked much like the NetBSD mii(4) manual page, but
7 .\" I doubt you would ever notice due to large differences.
9 .\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man4/miibus.4,v 1.3.2.2 2003/02/23 19:17:55 trhodes Exp $
16 .Nd IEEE 802.3 Media Independent Interface network bus
18 For most network interface cards (NIC):
23 driver provides an interconnection between the Media Access Control (MAC)
24 sublayer, the Physical Layer entities (PHY), Station Management (STA)
25 entities, and the PHY Layer as defined by the IEEE 802.3 Standard.
29 layer allows network device drivers to share common support
30 code for various external PHY devices.
31 Most 10/100 network interface cards either use an MII transceiver
32 or have built-in transceivers that can be programmed using an MII
36 driver currently handles all of the media detection,
37 selection, and reporting using the ifmedia interface.
38 A generic driver has been included for all PHYs that are not
39 handled by a specific driver, this is possible because all
40 10/100 PHYs implement the same general register set along with
41 their vendor specific register set.
43 The following network device drivers use the
47 .Bl -tag -compact -width ".Xr fxp 4"
49 Aironet 4500/4800 802.11 wireless NICs
53 BayStack 660 and others
55 Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet
59 DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes
61 NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390 cards
63 Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558)
65 Kawasaki LSI USB Ethernet
67 AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100
73 Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016
75 Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX)
77 Texas Instruments ThunderLAN
79 SMC EtherPower II (83c170)
90 was originally intended to have similar API interfaces
95 but as a result are not well behaved newbus device drivers.
119 More information on MII can be found in the IEEE 802.3 Standard.
123 driver first appeared in
126 This manual page was written by
127 .An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org .