devn-lance.so

Driver for AMD LANCE (AMD-79c96x) compatible Ethernet adapters

Syntax:

io-net -d lance [option[,option ...]] ...

Options:

Use commas (,) to separate the options (not spaces).

ioport=num

Set the I/O port of interface to num. The num parameter must be a hex address (e.g. 0x320). The default is automatically detected on supported hardware (but see caution below).

irq=num

Set the IRQ of interface to num. The default is automatically detected on supported hardware (but see caution below).

mac=XXXXXXXXXXXX

MAC address of controller. The default is automatically detected on supported hardware.

nomulticast

Disable multicast support.

promiscuous

Enable promiscuous mode. The default is off.

verbose
verbose=num

Be verbose. Specify num for more verbosity (num can be 1-4, the higher the number, the more detailed the output). The output goes to slogger, invoke sloginfo to view.

Description:

The devn-lance.so driver controls AMD LANCE (AMD-79c96x) compatible Ethernet adapters.

This driver cannot always detect the correct irq and ioport options, especially for ISA devices. To be sure, always specify irq and ioport when using this driver.

Examples:

Start io-net using the AMD LANCE driver and the full TCP/IP stack:

io-net -d lance ioport=0x320,irq=11 -p tcpip
ifconfig en0 10.184

Files:

/dev/io-net

The directory where, by default, drivers and protocol modules add entries. For more information, the documentation for io-net.

See also:

io-net

"Network drivers (devn-*)" and "Network protocol interfaces (npm-*)" in the Utilities Summary