TX (4) | Special files and drivers | Unix Manual Pages

The tx driver supports the following media types (depending on card’s capabilities):

autoselect	Enable autonegotiation (default).
100baseFX	Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) fiber optic operation.
100baseTX	Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) twisted pair operation.
10baseT/UTP	Set 10Mbps on 10baseT port.
10base2/BNC	Set 10Mbps on 10base2 port.

The tx driver supports the following media options:

The tx driver supports oversized Ethernet packets (up to 1600 bytes). Refer to the ifconfig(8) man page on setting the interface’s MTU.

"tx%d: device timeout %d packets"	The device stops responding. Device and driver reset follows this error.
"tx%d: PCI fatal error occurred (%s)"	One of following errors occurred: PCI Target Abort, PCI Master Abort, Data Parity Error or Address Parity Error. Device and driver reset follows this error.
"tx%d: cannot allocate mbuf header/cluster"	Cannot allocate memory for received packet. Packet thrown away.
"tx%d: can’t stop %s DMA"	While resetting, the driver failed to stop the device correctly.

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