ADM6996FC(4)

👑 ADM6996FC — the Infineon switch chip driver, bestie edition 💅

okay so this is adm6996fc(4), a kernel interfaces manual page, and it's literally all about the driver for the Infineon ADM6996FC fast ethernet switch chip. yes the name is a mouthful. no we are not shortening it. periodt.

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✨ NAME ✨

adm6996fc — driver for Infineon ADM6996FC fast ethernet switch chip 🦋

like. that's the whole thing. it's a driver. it drives the chip. iconic behaviour honestly.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

device mdio
device etherswitch
device adm6996fc

hint.adm6996fc.0.at="mdio0"

so you gotta bring mdio, etherswitch and adm6996fc to the party, and then set that hint so adm6996fc.0 attaches at mdio0. no cap. 🔥

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

the adm6996fc device driver provides a management interface to the Infineon ADM6996FC fast ethernet switch chip. it's giving "i speak fluent switch". this driver uses the smi interface by ethernet interface — that's the vibe, that's the pipeline. 🫶

now the good part: this driver supports port and dot1q vlan. and the dot1q support does port base tag/untag. so if you were wondering "can i tag" — yes bestie, you can tag, you can untag, we contain multitudes. ✨

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🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

configuring dot1q vlan with the etherswitchcfg command 💅

# etherswitchcfg config vlan_mode dot1q

configuring port 5 to be the tagging port 👑

# etherswitchcfg port5 addtag

not me giving you two whole examples. slay. use them. 🌈

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🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

• etherswitch(4)
• etherswitchcfg(8)

go read those too, iykyk 🧚

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📜 HISTORY 📜

the adm6996fc device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 12.0. a whole era. ⭐

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🌟 AUTHORS 🌟

the adm6996fc driver was written by Hiroki Mori. absolute legend, we stan. 🙈💜

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lowkey reminder bestie: all the facts above are the whole facts. no substitutions, no merge, no invented flags. this page is the real one, just with better energy. 💖

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and that's the page! 🌸 this was the Debian build, dated April 5, 2017, and yes the footer said ADM6996FC(4) too — main character energy from start to finish. bye bestie, go configure a vlan 🎀✨