IE(4) BSD/i386 Kernel Interfaces Manual IE(4)NAMEie — Intel i82586 ethernet device driver
SYNOPSIS
device ie0 at isa? port 0x360 irq 7 iomem 0xd0000
DESCRIPTION
The ie driver provides support for 8 and 16bit ISA ethernet cards that
are based on the Intel i82586 chip. It supports the AT&T Starlan 10 and
Starlan Fiber, the EN100, the Intel EtherExpress 16, the 3COM 3C507 and
the RACAL Interlan NI5210.
DIAGNOSTICS
ie%d: unknown board type code %d An i82586 chip was found, but the
driver was unable to determine the actual board type during the probe.
ie%d: kernel configured maddr %x doesn't match board configured maddr %x
The device probe detected a different maddr than the one specified in the
kernel configuration file.
ie%d: can't find shared memory The device probe could not access the
shared memory to determine its size.
ie%d: kernel configured msize %d doesn't match board configured msize %d
The device probe found a different size for the shared memory than the
one specified in the kernel configuration file.
ie%d: kernel configured irq %d doesn't match board configured irq %d The
device probe detected that the board is configured for a different inter‐
rupt than the one specified in the kernel configuration file.
ie%d: reset The Intel i82586 had to be reset by the driver.
ie%d: transceiver problem The driver has detected a problem with the
ethernet transceiver. This is usually due to a loose or broken trans‐
ceiver cable when using an external transceiver. When you experience
this problem with an on-card transceiver your card may be incorrectly
jumpered for to use an external transceiver. Worst case your on-board
transceiver may be broken.
ie%d: TDR detected an open %d clocks away The driver detected an open
circuit in the ethernet cable. Check your coax cable and terminator
resistors.
ie%d: TDR detected a short %d clocks away The driver detected a short
circuit in the ethernet cable. Check your coax cable and terminator
resistors.
ie%d: TDR returned unknown status %x The driver got an unknown status
from the card during the ethernet cable test.
ie%d: multicast address setup command failed The card could not be put
into multicast mode.
ie%d: configure command failed The card refused to respond correctly
during configuration.
ie%d: individual address setup command failed The programming of the
Ethernet (MAC) address failed.
CAVEATS
The Racal Interlan NI5210 comes in variants with 8 and 16 kbytes of
shared memory. It is strongly advisable to use the 16 kbyte variant.
You can upgrade your 8 kbyte card to 16 kbyte by adding an additional RAM
chip.
SEE ALSOarp(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), ifconfig(8)AUTHORS
The ie device driver was written by Garrett A. Wollman, based on code by
William F. Jolitz and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories. 3C507 support was
written by Charles M. Hannum. This manual page was written by Wilko C.
Bulte.
BSD September 23, 1994 BSD
