NE(4)

okay bestie, welcome to NE(4) from the Kernel Interfaces Manual — the device driver page for NE2000 and compatible Ethernet cards, and it’s giving vintage-network-icon energy 👑✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

ne — NE2000 and compatible Ethernet cards device driver. That’s the name, that’s the whole mission, no cap 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here’s the config tea, grouped by bus/machine — copy these exactly, bestie, character for character 🫶

🧸 ISA boards

ne0 at isa? port 0x280 irq 9
ne1 at isa? port 0x300 irq 10
ne* at isapnp?

🎀 MCA boards

ne* at mca? slot ?

🦋 PCI boards

ne* at pci? dev ? function ?

🍓 PCMCIA

ne* at pcmcia? function ?

🌈 acorn32

ne* at podulebus?

💜 amiga

ne* at zbus0 # AriadneII
ne* at xsurfbus? # X-Surf
ne* at xshbus? # X-Surf 100

💖 amigappc

ne* at zbus0 # AriadneII
ne* at xsurfbus? # X-Surf
ne* at xshbus? # X-Surf 100

⭐ atari

ne0 at mainbus0 # EtherNEC on Atari ROM cartridge slot

🧚 evbarm

ne0 at obio? addr 0x0e000200 intr 5 # on-board Asix AX88796

🌸 evbsh3

ne0 at mainbus? # Realtek RTL8019AS

🔥 x68k

ne* at intio0 addr 0xece300 intr 249 # Nereid Ethernet
ne* at intio0 addr 0xeceb00 intr 248 # Nereid Ethernet
neptune0 at intio0 addr 0xece000 intr 249 # Neptune-X
neptune1 at intio0 addr 0xece400 intr 249 # Neptune-X at alt. addr.
ne* at neptune? addr 0x300

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

the ne device driver supports NE2000 and compatible (including NE1000) Ethernet cards. While the original NE2000 is designed for ISA bus, the compatible Realtek 8019 chip is widely used on various local busses, and the ne driver also supports such devices on various machines. literally versatile icon behavior ✨

🎀 MEDIA SELECTION 🎀

the Realtek 8019 (ISA, ISAPnP, some PCMCIA) and Realtek 8029 (PCI) NE2000-compatible Ethernet chips include support for software media selection. slay.

some cards based on AX88x9x chips (like X-Surf 100) also support media selection and link auto negotiation through the mii(4) interface. highkey fancy.

if one of the above chips is detected by the driver, the list of supported media will be displayed. cute of it, honestly 💅

for all other chips supported by the ne driver, media selection must be performed either via card jumper settings or by vendor-supplied configuration programs. old-school but valid 🫡

💀 DIAGNOSTICS 💀

ne0: where did the card go? — this means the driver found the card, but was unable to make the card respond to complete the configuration sequence. it’s giving “I see you but you’re not answering” energy 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

ifmedia(4), intro(4), isa(4), isapnp(4), mca(4), pci(4), pcmcia(4), ifconfig(8) — the whole friend group 💖

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okay bestie, that’s the whole NE(4) page — brought to you by Debian, dated August 14, 2013, and signed off with main-character network-driver energy 💅✨