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 1.3.2.6 2004/03/01 09:22:11 brueffer 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
40 A generic driver has been included for all PHYs that are not
41 handled by a specific driver, this is possible because all
42 10/100 PHYs implement the same general register set along with
43 their vendor specific register set.
45 The following network device drivers use the
49 .Bl -tag -compact -width ".Xr stge 4"
51 Attansic/Atheros L2 FastEthernet
53 Attansic/Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet
55 Atheros AR8131/AR8132 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet
57 Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet
61 ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB Ethernet
63 ASIX Electronics AX88178A/AX88179 USB Gigabit Ethernet
65 Broadcom BCM5706/BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet
67 Broadcom BCM440x 10/100 Ethernet
69 Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet
71 DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes
73 Agere ET1310 10/100/1000 Ethernet
75 Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B
77 JMicron Gigabit Ethernet
79 Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator Gigabit Ethernet
81 Moschip MCS7730/MCS7830/MCS7832 USB Ethernet
83 Marvell/SysKonnect Yukon II Gigabit Ethernet
85 NVIDIA nForce MCP 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet
87 National Semiconductor DP83820/DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet
89 AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100
91 RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S
97 Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016
99 SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x Gigabit Ethernet
101 Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX)
103 Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet
105 Texas Instruments ThunderLAN
107 SMC EtherPower II (83c170)
109 Davicom DM9601 USB Ethernet
111 VIA Networking Technologies VT6122 PCI Gigabit Ethernet
120 The implementation of
122 was originally intended to have similar API interfaces
127 but as a result are not well behaved newbus device drivers.
166 More information on MII can be found in the IEEE 802.3 Standard.
170 driver first appeared in
173 This manual page was written by
174 .An Tom Rhodes Aq Mt trhodes@FreeBSD.org .