NFE(4) | Device Drivers Manual | NFE(4)

# NAME

`nfe` — NVIDIA nForce MCP 10/100/1Gb Ethernet device

# SYNOPSIS

`nfe* at pci?`
`atphy* at mii?`
`brgphy* at mii?`
`ciphy* at mii?`
`eephy* at mii?`
`icsphy* at mii?`
`rgephy* at mii?`
`rlphy* at mii?`

# DESCRIPTION

The `nfe` driver supports Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the NVIDIA nForce Media and Communications Processors (MCP), the nForce, nForce 2, nForce 3, CK804, MCP04, MCP51, MCP55, MCP61, MCP65, MCP67, MCP73, MCP77, MCP79 and MCP89 Ethernet controller chips.

The `nfe` driver supports IPv4 transmit/receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload with the nForce 3, CK804, MCP55, MCP77, MCP79 and MCP89 chipsets and VLAN tag insertion and stripping with the MCP55 chipset.

The `nfe` driver additionally supports Wake on LAN (WoL). See arp(8) and ifconfig(8) for more details.

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), atphy(4), brgphy(4), ciphy(4), eephy(4), icsphy(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), rgephy(4), rlphy(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)

# HISTORY

The `nfe` device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 3.9.

# AUTHORS

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

# CAVEATS

NVIDIA refuse to release any documentation on their products.

September 8, 2021 | Debian