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EX(4)		     FreeBSD/i386 Kernel Interfaces Manual		 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.

FreeBSD 7.2		       September 4, 2004		   FreeBSD 7.2
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