LII(4)

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version 11.0 · 2 versions
, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 lii(4) — the Kernel Interfaces Manual situation 💖

okay so bestie, grab a lil snack because we're about to talk about a network driver and honestly? it's giving niche but iconic. this is lii, straight out of the Kernel Interfaces Manual, and it's here to make your ethernet card go brrr 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

lii — the Attansic/Atheros L2 Fast-Ethernet device driver. yes that whole mouthful. no cap, that's the name, we don't make the rules 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

lii* at pci? dev ? function ?

look at her. so concise. so mysterious. she's attaching herself to the pci bus at some dev and function, and the ?s mean the kernel gets to figure out the specifics. main character energy honestly 👑

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so here's the tea 🍓: lii provides support for the Attansic/Atheros Fast-Ethernet card. that's it, that's her whole job, and she does it.

and where do you find this card? in a whole variety of low-end Asus hardware — notably, and this is the fun part, the Asus EeePC. the little netbook that could. the tiny clamshell legend. your fave's fave 💜 if you ever had one of those lil guys, this driver is lowkey the reason your internet worked. iykyk 🌈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • atphy(4) — go read about this too bestie
  • mii(4) — and this one, fr fr

both of these are absolutely worth a vibe check, the manpage said so not me 💫

⭐ HISTORY ⭐

the lii driver appeared in NetBSD 5.0. a whole era. we stan a driver with a documented origin story 🎀✨

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Quentin Garnier ⟨cube@NetBSD.org⟩ — that's the human. give them their flowers, they earned them 🌸🫶

aaaand that's the whole page, bestie! you ate that. 💅✨

cute lil sign-off: this page came from Debian, dated January 18, 2015, and it's LII(4) — catch you on the flip side 🦋💖
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