November 14, 2007 NFE 4

### NAME

nfe - NVIDIA nForce MCP Ethernet driver

### SYNOPSIS

nfe* at pci? ciphy* at mii? icsphy* at mii? makphy* at mii? rlphy* at mii?

### DESCRIPTION

The nfe driver supports PCI Ethernet adapters based on the NVIDIA nForce Media and Communications Processors (MCP), such as the nForce, nForce 2, nForce 3, CK804, MCP04, MCP51, MCP55, MCP61, MCP65, MCP67 and MCP73 Ethernet controller chips.

The nfe driver supports the following media types:

autoselect
  Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
10baseT
  Set 10Mbps operation.
100baseTX
  Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
1000baseT
  Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation (recent models only).

### SEE ALSO

arp(4), ciphy(4), icsphy(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), rlphy(4), ifconfig(8)

### HISTORY

The nfe device driver first appeared in OpenBSD3.9. It was added to NetBSD3.1.

### AUTHORS

The nfe driver was written by Jonathan Gray <jsg@openbsd.org> and Damien Bergamini <damien@openbsd.org>.

### CAVEATS

NVIDIA refuse to release any documentation on their products.