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16.\" $FreeBSD$
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18.Dd February 14, 2011
19.Dt MOS 4
20.Os
21.Sh NAME
22.Nm mos
23.Nd Moschip MCS7730/MCS7840 USB Ethernet driver
24.Sh SYNOPSIS
25To compile this driver into the kernel,
26place the following lines in your
27kernel configuration file:
28.Bd -ragged -offset indent
29.Cd "device uhci"
30.Cd "device ohci"
31.Cd "device usb"
32.Cd "device miibus"
33.Cd "device mos"
34.Ed
35.Pp
36Alternatively, to load the driver as a
37module at boot time, place the following line in
38.Xr loader.conf 5 :
39.Bd -literal -offset indent
40if_mos_load="YES"
41.Ed
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The
44.Nm
45driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the
46Moschip MCS7730/MCS7830 chipset.
47.Pp
48The adapters that contain the Moschip MCS7730/MCS7830 chipset
49will operate at 100Base-TX and full-duplex.
50.Pp
51The Moschip contains a 10/100
52Ethernet MAC with MII interface and is designed to work with both
53Ethernet and HomePNA transceivers.
54Although designed to interface with
55100Mbps peripherals, this only works with USB 2.0. The existing USB 1.0
56standard specifies a maximum transfer speed of 12Mbps.
57USB 1.0 Users should therefore not expect to actually achieve 100Mbps speeds
58with these devices.
59.Pp
60The Moschip supports a 64-bit multicast hash table, single perfect
61filter entry for the station address and promiscuous mode.
62Packets are
63received and transmitted over separate USB bulk transfer endpoints.
64.Pp
65For more information on configuring this device, see
66.Xr ifconfig 8 .
67.Sh HARDWARE
68Adapters supported by the
69.Nm
70driver include:
71.Pp
72.Bl -bullet -compact
73.It
74Sitecom LN030
75.Sh SEE ALSO
76.Xr altq 4 ,
77.Xr arp 4 ,
78.Xr miibus 4 ,
79.Xr netintro 4 ,
80.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
81.Xr ifconfig 8
82.Rs
83.%T ADMtek AN986 data sheet
84.%O http://www.moschip.com/data/products/MCS7830/Data%20Sheet_7830.pdf
85.Re
86.Sh HISTORY
87The
88.Nm
89device driver first appeared in
90.Fx 8.2 .
91.Sh AUTHORS
92The
93.Nm
94driver was written by
95.An Rick van der Zwet info@rickvanderzwet.nl .
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