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NAME
     sis — SiS 900, SiS 7016 and NS DP83815/DP83816 Fast Ethernet device driver


SYNOPSIS
     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

           device miibus
           device sis

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

           if_sis_load="YES"


DESCRIPTION
     The sis driver provides support for PCI Ethernet adapters and embedded controllers based on the Silicon
     Integrated Systems SiS 900 and SiS 7016 Fast Ethernet controller chips.

     This driver also supports adapters based on the National Semiconductor DP83815 (MacPhyter) and DP83816 PCI
     Ethernet controller chip.

     The SiS 900 is a 100Mbps Ethernet MAC and MII-compliant transceiver in a single package.  It uses a bus
     master DMA and a scatter/gather descriptor scheme.  The SiS 7016 is similar to the SiS 900 except that it
     has no internal PHY, requiring instead an external transceiver to be attached to its MII interface.  The
     SiS 900 and SiS 7016 both have a 128-bit multicast hash filter and a single perfect filter entry for the
     station address.

     The NS DP83815 is also a 100Mbps Ethernet MAC with integrated PHY.  The NatSemi chip and the SiS 900 share
     many of the same features and a fairly similar programming interface, hence both chips are supported by the
     same driver.

     The sis 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 rc.conf(5).

     10baseT/UTP  Set 10Mbps operation.  The ifconfig(8) mediaopt option can also be used to select either
                  ‘full-duplex’ or ‘half-duplex’ modes.

     100baseTX    Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.  The ifconfig(8) mediaopt option can also be used to
                  select either ‘full-duplex’ or ‘half-duplex’ modes.

     The sis driver supports the following media options:

     full-duplex  Force full duplex operation.

     half-duplex  Force half duplex operation.

     For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).


HARDWARE
     The sis driver supports Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900 and SiS 7016 based Fast Ethernet adapters and
     embedded controllers, as well as Fast Ethernet adapters based on the National Semiconductor DP83815
     (MacPhyter) and DP83816 chips.  Supported adapters include:

     •   @Nifty FNECHARD IFC USUP-TX
     •   MELCO LGY-PCI-TXC
     •   Netgear FA311-TX (DP83815)
     •   Netgear FA312-TX (DP83815)
     •   SiS 630, 635, and 735 motherboard chipsets
     •   Soekris Engineering net45xx, net48xx, lan1621, and lan1641


SYSCTL VARIABLES
     The following variable is available as both sysctl(8) variable and loader(8) tunable:

     dev.sis.%unit.manual_pad
             This variable controls how to pad short frames for DP83815/DP83816 controllers on the specified
             device.  DP83815/DP83816 controllers are known to pad 0xFF for short frames which is violation of
             RFC 1042.  Set this variable to a non-zero value to let driver manually pad each short frame with
             zeros at the cost of extra CPU cycles.  The default value is 0 to let hardware perform automatic
             padding.


DIAGNOSTICS
     sis%d: couldn't map ports/memory  A fatal initialization error has occurred.

     sis%d: couldn't map interrupt  A fatal initialization error has occurred.

     sis%d: watchdog timeout  The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with the
     network connection (e.g. a cable fault).

     sis%d: no memory for rx list  The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring.

     sis%d: no memory for tx list  The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the transmitter ring when
     allocating a pad buffer or collapsing an mbuf chain into a cluster.

     sis%d: chip is in D3 power state -- setting to D0  This message applies only to adapters which support
     power management.  Some operating systems place the controller in low power mode when shutting down, and
     some PCI BIOSes fail to bring the chip out of this state before configuring it.  The controller loses all
     of its PCI configuration in the D3 state, so if the BIOS does not set it back to full power mode in time,
     it will not be able to configure it correctly.  The driver tries to detect this condition and bring the
     adapter back to the D0 (full power) state, but this may not be enough to return the driver to a fully
     operational condition.  If you see this message at boot time and the driver fails to attach the device as a
     network interface, you will have to perform a warm boot to have the device properly configured.

     Note that this condition only occurs when warm booting from another operating system.  If you power down
     your system prior to booting FreeBSD, the card should be configured correctly.


SEE ALSO
     altq(4), arp(4), miibus(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), polling(4), vlan(4), ifconfig(8)

     SiS 900 and SiS 7016 datasheets, http://www.sis.com.tw.

     NatSemi DP83815 datasheet, http://www.national.com.


HISTORY
     The sis device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.


AUTHORS
     The sis driver was written by Bill Paul <wpaul@ee.columbia.edu>.