LE(4)

NAME
le - Ethernet driver for AMD7990(LANCE) and AMD 79C960 based boards

SYNOPSIS
le* at zbus0

DESCRIPTION
The le interface provides access to the 10 Mb/s Ethernet network via the AMD 7990 and 79C960 LANCE Ethernet chip set.

HARDWARE
The le interface supports the following Zorro II expansion cards:

A2065
    Commodore's ethernet card, manufacturer 514, product 112

AMERISTAR
    Ameristar's ethernet card, manufacturer 1053, product 1

ARIADNE
    Village Tronic's ethernet card, manufacturer 2167, product 201

MEDIA SELECTION
The A2065 and Ameristar ethernet cards supports only manual media selection.

The Ariadne card supports a software media selection for it's two different connectors:

10Base2/BNC
    also known as thinwire-ethernet

10BaseT/UTP
    also known as twisted pair

The Ariadne card uses an autoselect between UTP and BNC, so it uses UTP when an active UTP line is connected or otherwise BNC. To control this choice, use the following flag combinations with ifconfig(8) or in your /etc/hostname.le? file.

media auto
    Use the autoselect between UTP and BNC (default).

media BNC
    Use the BNC port.

media UTP
    Use the UTP port.

HISTORY
The Amiga le interface first appeared in NetBSD 0.9a

The Ariadne ethernet card first appeared with the Amiga ae interface in NetBSD 1.0a and was converted to the Amiga le interface in NetBSD 1.2d

SEE ALSO
ifconfig(8), inet(4), intro(4)