NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     ex -- Ethernet device driver for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 and
     Pro/10+

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     device ex

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     The ex driver provides support for the 16-bit PCI Intel EtherExpress
     Pro/10 and Pro/10+ Ethernet cards based on the Intel i82595 chip.	The
     Olicom OC2220 is also supported.

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

DIAGNOSTICS    [Toc]    [Back]

     ex%d: Intel EtherExpress Pro/10, address %6D, connector %s  The device
     probe found an installed card, and was able to correctly install 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.

BUGS    [Toc]    [Back]

     Currently the driver does not support multicast.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

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

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

     The ex device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.

AUTHORS    [Toc]    [Back]

     The ex device driver was written by Javier Martin Rueda.  This manual
     page was written by David E. O'Brien.


FreeBSD 5.2.1		       January 19, 1997 		 FreeBSD 5.2.1