From e9646f6441b5803d8086dfbbb4036fb3092938c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marius Strobl Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 14:57:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Correct and improve the description of le(4) vs. pcn(4); apparently I was thinking from the pcn(4) perspective instead of the le(4) one when writing the former version as le(4) supports a superset of the chips supported by pcn(4) and not the other way round. --- share/man/man4/le.4 | 17 ++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/share/man/man4/le.4 b/share/man/man4/le.4 index 829b80510a3..ad4e4194dda 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/le.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/le.4 @@ -79,17 +79,24 @@ driver also supports PCnet adapters based on the .Tn AMD 79C9xx family of chips, which are single-chip implementations of a .Tn LANCE -chip and +chip and a DMA engine. +This includes a superset of the .Tn PCI -bus interface. -This includes most of the adapters which are also supported by the +bus Ethernet chip sets supported by the .Xr pcn 4 driver. The .Nm -driver does not support all features of these adapters however, thus the +driver treats all of these +.Tn PCI +bus Ethernet chip sets as an +.Tn AMD Am79C970 PCnet-PCI +and does not support the additional features like the MII bus and burst mode of +.Tn AMD Am79C971 PCnet-FAST +and greater chip sets. +Thus the .Xr pcn 4 -driver should be preferred. +driver should be preferred for the latter. .Pp The .Nm