ex(4)

NAME

ex - Ethernet device driver for the Intel EtherExpress

Pro/10 and Pro/10+

SYNOPSIS

To  compile this driver into the kernel, place the following
line in your
kernel configuration file:
      device ex
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot  time,
place the
following line in loader.conf(5):
      if_ex_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

The ex driver provides support for Ethernet adapters based

on the Intel
i82595 chip.

The card will be searched for in the I/O address range 0x200

- 0x3a0. If
the IRQ will be read from the EEPROM on the card. For cor

rect operation
on newer cards the Plug-N-Play support should be disabled.

HARDWARE

The ex driver supports the following Ethernet adapters:

+o Intel EtherExpress Pro/10
+o Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+
+o The Olicom OC2220

DIAGNOSTICS

ex%d: Intel EtherExpress Pro/10, address %6D, connector %s

The device
probe found an installed card, and was able to correctly in

stall the
device driver.

ex%d: WARNING: board's EEPROM is configured for IRQ %d,

using %d The
device probe detected that the board is configured for a

different interrupt than the one specified in the kernel configuration

file.

ex%d: invalid IRQ. The device probe detected an invalid IRQ

setting.

SEE ALSO

arp(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY

The ex device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.

AUTHORS

The ex device driver was written by Javier Martin Rueda.

This manual
page was written by David E. O'Brien.

BUGS

Currently the driver does not support multicast.

BSD July 16, 2005

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