el(4)
NAME
el - Ethernet driver for 3Com Etherlink 3C501 devices
SYNOPSIS
device el
In /boot/device.hints:
hint.el.0.at="isa"
hint.el.0.port="0x300"
hint.el.0.irq="9"
DESCRIPTION
This device driver is deprecated and will be removed in
FreeBSD 7.0.
- The el interface provides support for the 3Com 3c501 8bit
- ISA Ethernet
card. The 3c501 card is known to be quite slow, and a dif - ferent Ethernet
card should be used if possible. However, they allow inex - pensive access
to 10 Mb/s Ethernet networks. - The valid I/O ports are in the range 0x280-0x3f0.
HARDWARE
- The el driver supports the 3Com 3c501 8bit ISA Ethernet
- card.
SEE ALSO
ed(4), ep(4), ie(4), intro(4), ng_ether(4), ifconfig(8)
BUGS
- The driver assumes the card is configured for the same IRQ
- as the kernel.
No probing or checking is done to determine if this is the - case.
- Does not currently support DMA.
- Does not currently support multicasts.
- BSD September 5, 2004