EPIC(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual EPIC(4)
NAME
epic - SMC 83C170 (EPIC/100) 10/100 Ethernet device
SYNOPSIS
epic* at pci?
acphy* at mii?
lxtphy* at mii?
qsphy* at mii?
DESCRIPTION
The epic interface provides access to the 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s Ethernet
networks via the SMC EPIC chipset. This driver provides support for the
SMC EtherPower II 10/100 Ethernet cards.
The epic supports several media types, which are selected via the
ifconfig(8) command. The supported media types are:
media autoselect
Attempt to autoselect the media type (default)
media 100baseFX mediaopt full-duplex
Use 100baseFX (fiber), full duplex
media 100baseFX mediaopt half-duplex
Use 100baseFX (fiber), half duplex
media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
Use 100baseTX, full duplex
media 100baseTX mediaopt half-duplex
Use 100baseTX, half duplex
media 100baseTX mediaopt loopback
Put the interface into loopback mode
media 10baseT mediaopt full-duplex
Use 10baseT, full duplex
media 10baseT mediaopt half-duplex
Use 10baseT, half duplex
media 10baseT mediaopt loopback
Put the interface into loopback mode
SEE ALSO
acphy(4), arp(4), ifmedia(4), inet(4), intro(4), lxtphy(4), netintro(4),
pci(4), qsphy(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
The epic device driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.4. OpenBSD support was
added in OpenBSD 3.8.
AUTHORS
The epic driver was written by Jason R. Thorpe
<
[email protected]> and ported to OpenBSD by Brad Smith
<
[email protected]>.
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 March 21, 2022 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8