EX(4)

NAME

     ex -- Ethernet device driver for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 and
     Pro/10+

SYNOPSIS

     device ex

DESCRIPTION

     The ex driver provides support for Ethernet adapters based on the Intel
     i82595 chip.

     The card will be searched for in the I/O address range 0x200 - 0x3a0.  If
     the IRQ will be read from the EEPROM on the card.	For correct operation
     on newer cards the Plug-N-Play support should be disabled.

HARDWARE

     The ex driver supports the following Ethernet adapters:

     +o	 Intel EtherExpress Pro/10
     +o	 Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+
     +o	 The Olicom OC2220

DIAGNOSTICS

     ex%d: Intel EtherExpress Pro/10, address %6D, connector %s  The device
     probe found an installed card, and was able to correctly install the
     device driver.

     ex%d: WARNING: board's EEPROM is configured for IRQ %d, using %d  The
     device probe detected that the board is configured for a different inter-
     rupt than the one specified in the kernel configuration file.

     ex%d: invalid IRQ.  The device probe detected an invalid IRQ setting.

BUGS

     Currently the driver does not support multicast.

SEE ALSO

     arp(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY

     The ex device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.

AUTHORS

     The ex device driver was written by Javier Martin Rueda.  This manual
     page was written by David E. O'Brien.