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NAME
sk - SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your
kernel configuration file:
device miibus
device sk
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
following line in loader.conf(5):
if_sk_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The sk driver provides support for the SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x
series PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapters.
The SysKonnect adapters consist of two main components: the XaQti Corp.
XMAC II gigabit MAC and the SysKonnect GEnesis controller ASIC. The XMAC
provides the gigabit MAC and PHY support while the GEnesis provides an
interface to the PCI bus, DMA support, packet buffering and arbitration.
The GEnesis can control up to two XMACs simultaneously, allowing dual-
port NIC configurations.
The SK-982x 1000baseT adapters also include a Broadcom BCM5400 1000baseTX
PHY which is used in place of the XMAC’s internal PHY. The Broadcom PHY
is connected to the XMAC via its GMII port.
The sk driver configures dual port SysKonnect adapters such that each
XMAC is treated as a separate logical network interface. Both ports can
operate independently of each other and can be connected to separate net‐
works. The SysKonnect driver software currently only uses the second
port on dual port adapters for failover purposes: if the link on the pri‐
mary port fails, the SysKonnect driver will automatically switch traffic
onto the second port.
Also supported is the Marvell Semiconductor 88E1000* gigabit PHY.
The XaQti XMAC II supports full and half duplex operation with autonego‐
tiation. The XMAC also supports unlimited frame sizes. Support for
jumbo frames is provided via the interface MTU setting. Selecting an MTU
larger than 1500 bytes with the ifconfig(8) utility configures the
adapter to receive and transmit jumbo frames. Using jumbo frames can
greatly improve performance for certain tasks, such as file transfers and
data streaming.
The sk driver supports the following media types:
autoselect Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
The user can manually override the autoselected
mode by adding media options to the /etc/rc.conf
file.
1000baseTX Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair. This
is only available for SK-982x series adapters with
1000baseT ports. Both full-duplex and half-duplex
modes are supported.
1000baseSX Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation. Both
full-duplex and half-duplex modes are supported.
The sk driver supports the following media options:
full-duplex Force full duplex operation
half-duplex Force half duplex operation.
The sk driver also supports one special link option for 1000baseTX cards:
link0 With 1000baseTX cards, establishing a link between
two ports requires that one port is configured as
master and the other one as slave. With autonego‐
tiation, the master/slave settings will be chosen
automatically. However when manually selecting the
link state, it is necessary to force one side of
the link to be a master and the other a slave. The
sk driver configures the ports as slaves by
default. Setting the link0 flag with ifconfig(8)
will set a port as a master instead.
For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).
HARDWARE
Adapters supported by the sk driver include:
3Com 3C940 single port, 1000baseT adapter
3Com 3C2000-T single port, 1000baseT adapter
Belkin F5D5005 single port, 1000baseT adapter
D-Link DGE-530T single port, 1000baseT adapter
Linksys EG1032 single port, 1000baseT adapter
SK-9521 SK-NET GE-T single port, 1000baseT adapter
SK-9821 SK-NET GE-T single port, 1000baseT adapter
SK-9822 SK-NET GE-T dual port, 1000baseT adapter
SK-9841 SK-NET GE-LX single port, single mode fiber adapter
SK-9842 SK-NET GE-LX dual port, single mode fiber adapter
SK-9843 SK-NET GE-SX single port, multimode fiber adapter
SK-9844 SK-NET GE-SX dual port, multimode fiber adapter
SMC 9452TX single port, 1000baseT adapter
The following variable is available as both sysctl(8) variable and
loader(8) tunable:
dev.skc.%d.int_mod
This variable controls interrupt moderation. The accepted range
is 10 to 10000, default value is 100 microseconds. The interface
has to be brought down and up again before a change takes effect.
DIAGNOSTICS
sk%d: couldn t map memory A fatal initialization error has occurred.
sk%d: couldn t map ports A fatal initialization error has occurred.
sk%d: couldn t map interrupt A fatal initialization error has occurred.
sk%d: no memory for softc struct! The driver failed to allocate memory
for per-device instance information during initialization.
sk%d: failed to enable memory mapping! The driver failed to initialize
PCI shared memory mapping. This might happen if the card is not in a
bus-master slot.
sk%d: no memory for jumbo buffers! The driver failed to allocate memory
for jumbo frames during initialization.
sk%d: watchdog timeout The device has stopped responding to the network,
or there is a problem with the network connection (cable).
arp(4), miibus(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), vlan(4), ifconfig(8)
XaQti XMAC II datasheet, http://www.xaqti.com.
SysKonnect GEnesis programming manual, http://www.syskonnect.com.
HISTORY
The sk device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.
AUTHORS
The sk driver was written by Bill Paul 〈wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu〉.