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Devices                                                  elxl(7D)



NAME
     elxl - driver for 3Com Etherlink XL Ethernet controllers

DESCRIPTION
     The elxl driver supports network  interfaces  based  on  the
     3Com  Etherlink XL family of Ethernet controllers. Supported
     devices include the 3c900 and 3c905 families. The 3c900 fam-
     ily  devices  are  10 Mbps only devices, while the all other
     devices are generally capable of 100 Mbps.


     The 3c905 devices that include an  RJ-45  interface  support
     IEEE  802.3  autonegotiation  of link speed and duplex mode.
     For such devices, the link settings can be viewed  or  modi-
     fied  using  dladm(1M)  with the properties described in the
     ieee802.3(5) manual page.


     The 3c900 family of devices  do  not  support  any  form  of
     autonegotiation  and  normally default to half-duplex on the
     10BASE-T port, if such a port is present.


     For devices that include more than one  physical  port,  the
     physical port defaults to a device-specific selection, which
     is normally a twisted-pair (10BASE-T or 100BASE-TX) port  if
     one is present. This driver does not support automatic media
     detection.


     A different port can be selected using dladm with the _media
     property.  This  property can be set to one of the following
     values, limited by the physical ports that are present.

     aui       Selects the AUI port for 10BASE5  operation.  Link
               status is not reported in this mode.


     bnc       Selects the BNC port for 10BASE2  operation.  Link
               status is not reported in this mode.


     fl-fdx    Selects the 10BASE-FL  fiber  interface  in  full-
               duplex  mode.  Link status is not reported in this
               mode.


     fl-hdx    Selects the 10BASE-FL  fiber  interface  in  half-
               duplex  mode.  Link status is not reported in this
               mode.





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Devices                                                  elxl(7D)



     fx-fdx    Selects the 100BASE-FX fiber  interface  in  full-
               duplex mode.


     fx-hdx    Selects the 100BASE-FX fiber  interface  in  half-
               duplex mode.


     mii       For 100  Mbps  devices,  selects  the  100BASE-TX,
               100BASE-T4,or  external  MII  port  (whichever  is
               present on the device.) IEEE 802.3 autonegotiation
               is used to select the actual speed and mode of the
               link.


     tp-fdx    For 10 Mbps devices, selects full-duplex  10BASE-T
               operation.


     tp-hdx    For 10 Mbps devices, selects half-duplex  10BASE-T
               operation.


FILES
     /kernel/drv/elxl          32-bit kernel driver module (x86)


     /kernel/drv/amd64/elxl    64-bit kernel driver module (x86)


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for a descriptions of the following attri-
     butes:



     ____________________________________________________________
    |   ATTRIBUTE TYPE   |            ATTRIBUTE VALUE           |
    |____________________|______________________________________|
    | Architecture       | x86                                  |
    |____________________|______________________________________|


SEE ALSO
     dladm(1M),   netstat(1M),    ieee802.3(5),    attributes(5),
     dlpi(7P)









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