XE(4)

📦 in nixpkgs unstable

💖 XE(4) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the xe manual page — that's section 4 of the Kernel Interfaces Manual, mwah 😘 — and honestly it's a little icon and you're gonna love her.

✨ NAME ✨

xe — the Xircom-based 16-bit PCMCIA 10/100 Ethernet device 🫶 that's literally her whole job, and she ate.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xe* at pcmcia?
icsphy* at mii?

that's it, that's the whole glow-up ✨ she attaches at pcmcia? and the icsphy* attaches at mii? — the question marks are doing the "wherever you want, queen" energy 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

kay so here's the tea ☕ — the xe interface gives you access to a 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet network through a Xircom Ethernet card. literally her main character moment.

the Ethernet cards that are known to be supported by the xe interface are:

  • Xircom Realport 👑
  • Xircom CE3 🎀

but ngl, most 16-bit Xircom Ethernet cards should work too — no cap, she's flexible like that 💜

fr fr though: the list above is what's known to be supported, so if your card isn't named, that's not a no, it's just a "we haven't confirmed it" 🙈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole friend group, assembled 🫶:

iykyk 💫

⭐ HISTORY ⭐

the xe driver appeared in OpenBSD 2.5 — she's been iconic since day one, a true legacy queen 👑

and that's the page bestie!! 🎀 this little beauty is from the Debian edition, dated May 31, 2007 — yeah she's vintage, she's archival, she's serving 💅 bye ily 🦋💖

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