snc(4)

NAME

snc - National Semiconductor DP8393X SONIC Ethernet adapter
driver

SYNOPSIS

device isa
device snc

DESCRIPTION

The snc driver provides support for the National Semiconduc
tor SONIC Ethernet adapters.

HARDWARE

The snc driver supports the following cards:

+o National Semiconductor DP83934AVQB
+o NEC PC-9801-83
+o NEC PC-9801-84
+o NEC PC-9801-103
+o NEC PC-9801-104
+o NEC PC-9801N-15
+o NEC PC-9801N-25
+o NEC PC-9801N-J02 PCMCIA
+o NEC PC-9801N-J02R PCMCIA

The snc driver also includes support for the National Semi
conductor
NS46C46 as 64 * 16 bits Microwave Serial EEPROM.

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES

Accessing SONIC card data structures and registers as 32 bit
values makes
code endianness independent. The SONIC is however always in
big-endian
mode so it is necessary to ensure that data structures
shared between the
CPU and the SONIC card are always in big-endian order. The
snc driver
supports the PC-98 C-Bus, and PnP buses. Support is also
provided for
the legacy C-Bus.

DIAGNOSTICS

The following driver specific error messages may be report
ed:
snc%d: snc_nec16_register_irq: unsupported irq (%d) The
card returned an
IRQ which is not supported by the driver.
snc%d: invalid packet length %d bytes An attempt to trans
fer a data
packet failed due to an invalid packet length.

SEE ALSO

card(4), netintro(4), bus_alloc_resource_any(9)

HISTORY

The snc driver was ported from NetBSD by Motomichi Matsuzaki
<mzaki@e-mail.ne.jp> and Hiroshi Yamashita <blue
moon@msj.biglobe.ne.jp>.
It first appeared in FreeBSD 4.2. This manual page first
appeared in
FreeBSD 5.3.

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeB
SD.org>.

BUGS

Currently the snc driver only works on the PC-98 architec
ture. It should
probably work on the i386 architecture as well.
BSD September 4, 2004
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