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aac(4) -- Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver
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The aac driver provides support for the Adaptec AAC family of SCSI Ultra2, Ultra160, and Ultra320 RAID controllers. Supported controllers include: +o AAC-364 +o Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S +o Adaptec SCSI... |
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acd(4) -- generic ATA/ATAPI disk controller driver
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The ata driver provides access to ATA (IDE) and SerialATA disk drives, ATAPI CDROM/DVD drives, ZIP/LS120 ATAPI drives and ATAPI tape drives connected to controllers according to the ATA/ATAPI standard... |
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acpi(4) -- Advanced Configuration and Power Management support
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The acpi driver provides support for the Intel/Microsoft/Compaq/Toshiba ACPI standard. This support includes platform hardware discovery (superseding the PnP and PCI BIOS), as well as power management... |
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ad(4) -- generic ATA/ATAPI disk controller driver
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The ata driver provides access to ATA (IDE) and SerialATA disk drives, ATAPI CDROM/DVD drives, ZIP/LS120 ATAPI drives and ATAPI tape drives connected to controllers according to the ATA/ATAPI standard... |
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adv(4) -- Advansys ISA/VL/EISA/PCI 8bit SCSI Host adapter driver
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This driver provides access to the 8bit SCSI bus connected to the Advanced Systems Products, Inc. ASC900, ASC1000, ASC1090, ASC1200, ASC3030, ASC3050, and ASC3150 host adapter chips. The following tab... |
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adw(4) -- Advansys PCI 16bit SCSI Host adapter driver
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This driver provides access to the 16bit SCSI bus connected to the Advanced Systems Products, Inc. ASC3550 Ultra, and ASC38C0800 Ultra2, SCSI Host Adapter chips. AdvanSys products incorporating these ... |
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afd(4) -- generic ATA/ATAPI disk controller driver
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The ata driver provides access to ATA (IDE) and SerialATA disk drives, ATAPI CDROM/DVD drives, ZIP/LS120 ATAPI drives and ATAPI tape drives connected to controllers according to the ATA/ATAPI standard... |
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agp(4) -- generic interface to the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
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The agp driver provides uniform, abstract methods for controlling the following devices: +o Ali M1541 host-to-AGP bridge +o AMD 751 and 761 host-to-AGP bridges +o Intel i820, i840, i845, i850, and i86... |
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agpgart(4) -- generic interface to the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
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The agp driver provides uniform, abstract methods for controlling the following devices: +o Ali M1541 host-to-AGP bridge +o AMD 751 and 761 host-to-AGP bridges +o Intel i820, i840, i845, i850, and i86... |
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aha(4) -- Adaptec SCSI host adapter driver
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This driver provides access to the SCSI bus connected to an Adaptec AHA-154xA, AHA-154xB, AHA-154xC, AHA-154xCF, AHA-154xCP, or AHA-1640 host adapter. x is 0 for controllers without a floppy drive and... |
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ahb(4) -- Adaptec EISA SCSI host adapter driver
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This driver provides access to the SCSI bus connected to an Adaptec AHA-1740, AHA-1742, AHA-1740A, AHA-1742A host adapters in ``enhanced'' mode. Tagged queueing and synchronous SCSI transfers are su... |
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ahc(4) -- Adaptec VL/EISA/PCI SCSI host adapter driver
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This driver provides access to the SCSI bus(es) connected to Adaptec AIC7770, AIC7850, AIC7860, AIC7870, AIC7880, AIC7890, AIC7891, AIC7892, AIC7895, AIC7896, AIC7897 and AIC7899 host adapter chips. T... |
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ahd(4) -- Adaptec PCI/PCI-X Ultra320 SCSI host adapter driver
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This driver provides access to the SCSI bus(es) connected to Adaptec AIC7901 and AIC7902 host adapter chips. These chips are found on many motherboards as well as the 29320 and 39320 Adaptec SCSI cont... |
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i386/aic(4) -- Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 SCSI driver
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The aic driver provides support for the Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 SCSI controller chips. This includes the Adaptec AHA-1505, AHA-1510A, AHA-1510B, AHA-1520A, AHA-1520B, AHA-1522A, AHA-1522B, AHA-1... |
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aio(4) -- asynchronous I/O
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The aio facility provides system calls for asynchronous I/O. It is available both as a kernel option for static inclusion and as a dynamic kernel module. |
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i386/alpm(4) -- Acer Aladdin 15x3 Power Management controller driver
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This driver provides access to the Aladdin 15x3 Power Management Unit. Currently, only smbus controller function is implemented. The embedded SMBus controller of the Aladdin chipset may give you acces... |
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als4000(4) -- FreeBSD PCM audio device infrastructure
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The pcm driver provides support for PCM audio play and capture. This driver also supports various PCI, WSS/MSS compatible, ISA sound cards, and AC97 mixer. Once the pcm driver attaches, supported devi... |
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amd(4) -- amd53c974 PCI SCSI driver
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The amd driver provides support for the amd53c974 based SCSI cards, such as Tekram DC390 or Tekram DC390T. |
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i386/amdpm(4) -- AMD 756 Power Management controller driver
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This driver provides access to the AMD 756 Power management controller. Currently, only smbus controller function is implemented. The embedded SMBus controller of the AMD 756 chipset may give you acce... |
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amr(4) -- AMI MegaRAID PCI-SCSI RAID driver
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The amr driver provides support for American Megatrends MegaRAID Express, Elite and Enterprise family SCSI RAID controllers, including models relabeled and sold by Hewlett-Packard and Dell. Supported ... |
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an(4) -- Aironet Communications 4500/4800 wireless network adapter driver
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The an driver provides support for Aironet Communications 4500 and 4800 wireless network adapters and variants, including the following: +o Aironet Communications 4500 and 4800 series +o Cisco Aironet... |
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i386/apm(4) -- APM BIOS interface
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apm is an interface to the Intel / Microsoft APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS on laptop PCs. apm provides the following power management functions. 1. When the system wakes up from suspended mode,... |
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i386/ar(4) -- synchronous Digi/Arnet device driver
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The ar driver supports the Digi/Arnet SYNC/570i ISA and PCI cards that is based on the HD64570 chip. Both the 2 and 4 port cards are supported and auto detected. The standard FreeBSD sppp code is used... |
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arp(4) -- Address Resolution Protocol
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The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is used to dynamically map between Protocol Addresses (such as IP addresses) and Local Network Addresses (such as Ethernet addresses). This implementation maps IP... |
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i386/asc(4) -- device driver for a GI1904-based hand scanner
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The asc character device driver currently handles the GI1904-based hand scanner (e.g. Trust Amiscan Grey). It uses DMA and interrupts. Up to 50 lines of scanned input data are buffered in the driver. ... |
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asr(4) -- driver for Adaptec I2O based SCSI/ATA host bus adapters
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The Adaptec asr driver provides access to disks and disk arrays controlled by I2O based host bus adapters and SmartRAID SCSI RAID adapters through the standard SCSI disk da(4) interface. The adapters ... |
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ast(4) -- generic ATA/ATAPI disk controller driver
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The ata driver provides access to ATA (IDE) and SerialATA disk drives, ATAPI CDROM/DVD drives, ZIP/LS120 ATAPI drives and ATAPI tape drives connected to controllers according to the ATA/ATAPI standard... |
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ata(4) -- generic ATA/ATAPI disk controller driver
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The ata driver provides access to ATA (IDE) and SerialATA disk drives, ATAPI CDROM/DVD drives, ZIP/LS120 ATAPI drives and ATAPI tape drives connected to controllers according to the ATA/ATAPI standard... |
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atapicam(4) -- CAM XPT (transport) module for ATAPI devices
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The ATAPI/CAM module allows ATAPI devices (CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD drives, floppy drives such as Iomega Zip, tape drives) to be accessed through the SCSI subsystem, cam(4). ata(4) and scbus(4) must be conf... |
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ath(4) -- Atheros IEEE 802.11 driver
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The ath driver provides support for wireless network adapters based on the Atheros AR5210, AR5211, and AR5212 chips. Chip-specific support is provided by the Atheros Hardware Access Layer (HAL), that ... |
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ath_hal(4) -- Atheros Hardware Access Layer (HAL)
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The ath_hal module provides hardware support for wireless network adapters based on the Atheros AR5210, AR5211, and AR5212 chips. This module is required by the ath(4) driver. Devices supported by the... |
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atkbd(4) -- the AT keyboard interface
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The atkbd driver, together with the atkbdc driver, provides access to the AT 84 keyboard or the AT enhanced keyboard which is connected to the AT keyboard controller. This driver is required for the c... |
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atkbdc(4) -- the AT keyboard controller interface
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The keyboard controller atkbdc provides I/O services for the AT keyboard and PS/2 mouse style pointing devices. This controller is required for the keyboard driver atkbd and the PS/2 pointing device d... |
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aue(4) -- ADMtek AN986 Pegasus USB Ethernet driver
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The aue driver provides support for USB ethernet adapters based on the ADMtek AN986 Pegasus chipset, including the following: +o Abocom UFE1000, DSB650TX_NA +o Accton USB320-EC, SpeedStream +o ADMtek ... |
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awi(4) -- AMD PCnetMobile IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA wireless network driver
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The awi driver supports various IEEE 802.11 wireless cards which run AMD PCnetMobile firmware based on AMD 79c930 controller with Intersil (formerly Harris) PRISM radio chipset. It provides access to ... |
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axe(4) -- ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB Ethernet driver
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The axe driver provides support for USB ethernet adapters based on the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 chipset, including the following: +o D-Link DUBE100 +o LinkSys USB200M +o Netgear FA120 The AX88... |
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bfe(4) -- Broadcom BCM4401 Ethernet Device Driver
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The bfe driver provides support for the Broadcom BCM4401 based Fast Ethernet adapters. The bfe driver supports the following media types: autoselect Enable autoselection of the media type and options ... |
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bge(4) -- Broadcom BCM570x PCI gigabit ethernet adapter driver
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The bge driver provides support for various NICs based on the Broadcom BCM570x family of gigabit ethernet controller chips, including the following: +o 3Com 3c996-T (10/100/1000baseTX) +o Dell PowerEd... |
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bktr(4) -- video capture driver
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The bktr driver provides support for PCI video capture and VBI capture on low cost, high performance boards. The driver is based on the Matrox Meteor driver and uses the same API. The bktr driver shou... |
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blackhole(4) -- a sysctl(8) MIB for manipulating behaviour in respect of refused TCP or UDP connection attempts
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The blackhole sysctl(8) MIB is used to control system behaviour when connection requests are received on TCP or UDP ports where there is no socket listening. Normal behaviour, when a TCP SYN segment i... |
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bpf(4) -- Berkeley Packet Filter
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The Berkeley Packet Filter provides a raw interface to data link layers in a protocol independent fashion. All packets on the network, even those destined for other hosts, are accessible through this ... |
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bridge(4) -- bridging support
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FreeBSD supports bridging on Ethernet-type interfaces, including VLANs. Bridging support can be either compiled into the kernel, or loaded at runtime as a kernel module. A single FreeBSD host can do b... |
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brooktree(4) -- video capture driver
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The bktr driver provides support for PCI video capture and VBI capture on low cost, high performance boards. The driver is based on the Matrox Meteor driver and uses the same API. The bktr driver shou... |
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bt(4) -- Buslogic/Mylex MultiMaster SCSI host adapter driver
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This driver provides access to the SCSI bus connected to a Buslogic/Mylex MultiMaster or compatible controller: MultiMaster "W" Series Host Adapters: Adapter Bus Commands Description BT-948 PCI 192 ... |
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CAM(4) -- CAM SCSI subsystem
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The CAM SCSI subsystem provides a uniform and modular system for the implementation of drivers to control various SCSI devices, and to utilize different SCSI host adapters through host adapter drivers... |
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cam(4) -- CAM SCSI subsystem
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The CAM SCSI subsystem provides a uniform and modular system for the implementation of drivers to control various SCSI devices, and to utilize different SCSI host adapters through host adapter drivers... |
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card(4) -- PC Card bridge driver
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The pcic driver controls the PC Card subsystem. The pcic driver supports most ExCA devices attached to either ISA or PCI bus. The pcic driver does not support the so-called TCIC controllers made by Da... |
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cardbus(4) -- CardBus bus driver
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The cardbus driver implements the CardBus bus. The cardbus driver supports all cardbus bridges in the system. |
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cbb(4) -- cardbus bridge driver
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The pccbb driver implements the Yenta specification for CardBus bridges. The following PCI cardbus and pcmcia bridges are supported: Cirrus Logic PD6832 Cirrus Logic PD6833 Cirrus Logic PD6834 O2micro... |
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ccd(4) -- Concatenated Disk driver
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The ccd driver provides the capability of combining one or more disks/partitions into one virtual disk. This document assumes that you are familiar with how to generate kernels, how to properly config... |
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cd(4) -- SCSI CD-ROM driver
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The cd driver provides support for a SCSI CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read Only Memory) drive. In an attempt to look like a regular disk, the cd driver synthesizes a partition table, with one partition cover... |
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ch(4) -- SCSI media-changer (juke box) driver
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The ch driver provides support for a SCSI media changer. It allows many slots of media to be multiplexed between a number of drives. The changer device may optionally be equipped with a bar code reade... |
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ciss(4) -- Common Interface for SCSI-3 Support driver
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The ciss driver claims to provide a common interface between generic SCSI transports and intelligent host adapters. The ciss driver supports CISS as defined in the document entitled CISS Command Inter... |
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i386/CPU_ELAN(4) -- AMD Elan 520 CPU support
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The options CPU_ELAN enables support for the AMD Elan 520 CPU. A device /dev/elan-mmcr exports the MMCR register bank to userland using mmap(2). The i8254 timer will be adjusted to the slightly unorth... |
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i386/CPU_SOEKRIS(4) -- AMD Elan 520 CPU support
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The options CPU_ELAN enables support for the AMD Elan 520 CPU. A device /dev/elan-mmcr exports the MMCR register bank to userland using mmap(2). The i8254 timer will be adjusted to the slightly unorth... |
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crypto(4) -- hardware crypto access driver
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The crypto driver provides userland applications access to hardware crypto support via the kernel. The /dev/crypto device node primarily operates in an ioctl(2) based model, permitting a variety of ap... |
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i386/cs(4) -- ethernet device driver
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The cs driver provides support for ISA ethernet adapters based on the Crystal Semiconductor CS8900 and CS8920 NICs. These devices are used on the IBM EtherJet ISA adapters and in many embedded applica... |
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csa(4) -- Crystal Semiconductor CS461x/462x/4280 PCI bridge device driver
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The csa bridge driver allows the generic audio drivers including pcm(4) to attach to the following PCI sound cards: +o Crystal Semiconductor CS461x/462x Audio Accelerator +o Crystal Semiconductor CS42... |
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cue(4) -- CATC USB-EL1210A USB Ethernet driver
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The cue driver provides support for USB ethernet adapters based on the Computer Access Technology Corporation's USB-EL1210A chipset, including the CATC Netmate and Netmate II, the Belkin F5U011/F5U11... |
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i386/cx(4) -- driver for synchronous/asynchronous Cronyx-Sigma WAN adapters
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The cx driver needs either sppp(4) or netgraph(4). Which one to use is determined by NETGRAPH_CRONYX option. If this option is present in your kernel configuration file, the cx driver will be compiled... |
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i386/cy(4) -- Cyclades Cyclom-Y serial driver
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The cy driver provides support for Cirrus Logic CD1400-based EIA RS-232C (CCITT V.24) communications interfaces (ports) on Cyclades Cyclom-Y boards. Each CD1400 provides 4 ports. Cyclom-Y boards with ... |
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da(4) -- SCSI Direct Access device driver
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The da driver provides support for all SCSI devices of the direct access class that are attached to the system through a supported SCSI Host Adapter. The direct access class includes disk, magneto-opt... |
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dc(4) -- DEC/Intel 21143 and clone 10/100 ethernet driver
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The dc driver provides support for several PCI fast ethernet adapters and embedded controllers based on the following chipsets: +o DEC/Intel 21143 +o ADMtek AL981 Comet, AN985 Centaur, ADM9511 Centaur... |
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dcons(4) -- dumb console device driver
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The dcons device is the simple console device which just reads from and writes to an allocated buffer for input and output respectivly. It is no use by itself and it is supposed that the buffer is acc... |
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dcons_crom(4) -- Configuration ROM stub for dcons(4)
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The dcons_crom exposes buffer address of dcons(4) through Configuration ROM of FireWire(4). This address is supposed to be used by dconschat(8). |
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ddb(4) -- interactive kernel debugger
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The ddb kernel debugger has most of the features of the old kdb, but with a more rational syntax inspired by gdb(1). If linked into the running kernel, it can be invoked locally with the `debug' keym... |
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de(4) -- DEC DC21x4x Ethernet device driver
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The de driver provides support for the Ethernet adapters based on the Digital Equipment DC21x4x based self-contained Ethernet and Fast Ethernet chips, including: +o Asante +o Cogent EM100FX and EM440T... |
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devctl(4) -- device event reporting and device control interface
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The devctl device is used to report device events from the kernel. Future versions will allow for some device control as well. |
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i386/dgb(4) -- DigiBoard intelligent serial cards driver
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The dgb driver provides support for DigiBoard PC/Xe and PC/Xi series intelligent serial multiport cards with asynchronous interfaces based on the EIA RS-232C (CCITT V.24) standard. Input and output fo... |
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disc(4) -- software discard network interface
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The disc interface is a software discard mechanism which may be used for performance analysis and/or software testing. As with other network interfaces, the discard interface must have network address... |
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divert(4) -- kernel packet diversion mechanism
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Divert sockets are similar to raw IP sockets, except that they can be bound to a specific divert port via the bind(2) system call. The IP address in the bind is ignored; only the port number is signif... |
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dpt(4) -- DPT RAID Controller SCSI driver
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The dpt driver provides support for the following RAID adapters: +o DPT Smart Cache Plus +o Smart Cache II (PM2?2?, PM2022 [EISA], PM2024/PM2124 [PCI]) (Gen2) +o Smart RAID II (PM3?2?, PM3021, PM3222)... |
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dummynet(4) -- traffic shaper, bandwidth manager and delay emulator
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The dummynet system facility permits the control of traffic going through the various network interfaces, by applying bandwidth and queue size limitations, implementing different scheduling and queue ... |
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ed(4) -- ethernet device driver
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The ed driver provides support for 8 and 16bit ethernet cards that are based on the National Semiconductor DS8390 and similar NICs manufactured by other companies. It supports all 80x3 series ethernet... |
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ef(4) -- pseudo-device driver providing support for multiple ethernet frame types
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The ef pseudo-device driver clones each ethernet type device with four additional interfaces. Each of them is capable to send or receive only one predefined frame type. Names for the new interfaces cr... |
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ehci(4) -- USB Enhanced Host Controller driver
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The ehci driver provides support for the USB Enhanced Host Controller Interface, which is used by USB 2.0 controllers. EHCI controllers are peculiar in that they can only handle the USB 2.0 protocol. ... |
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i386/el(4) -- Ethernet driver for 3Com Etherlink 3C501 device driver
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The el interface provides support for the 3Com 3c501 8bit ISA ethernet card. The 3c501 card is known to be quite slow, and a different ethernet card should be used if possible. However, they allow ine... |
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em(4) -- Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit Ethernet driver for the FreeBSD operating system
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The em driver provides support for PCI gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the Intel 82540, 82542, 82543, 82544 and 82546 Ethernet controller chips. The driver supports Transmit/Receive checksum offloa... |
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emu10k1(4) -- FreeBSD PCM audio device infrastructure
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The pcm driver provides support for PCM audio play and capture. This driver also supports various PCI, WSS/MSS compatible, ISA sound cards, and AC97 mixer. Once the pcm driver attaches, supported devi... |
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en(4) -- device driver for Midway-based ATM interfaces
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The en device driver supports Midway-based ATM interfaces including the Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155 and Adaptec ANA-59x0. Midway is an AAL5 SAR (Segmentation and Reassembly) chip. For configuring... |
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i386/ep(4) -- Ethernet driver for 3Com Etherlink III (3c5x9)
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The ep device driver supports network adapters based on the 3Com 3C5x9 Etherlink III Parallel Tasking chipset, like the following: +o 3C1 CF +o 3C509-TP, 3C509-BNC, 3C509-Combo, 3C509-TPO, 3C509-TPC I... |
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i386/ex(4) -- Ethernet device driver for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 and Pro/10+
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The ex driver provides support for the 16-bit PCI Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 and Pro/10+ Ethernet cards based on the Intel i82595 chip. The Olicom OC2220 is also supported. The card will be searched fo... |
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exca(4) -- helper module for PC Card and CardBus systems
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The exca module is used to implement the Intel ExCA interface to PC Cards. |
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faith(4) -- IPv6-to-IPv4 TCP relay capturing interface
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The faith interface captures IPv6 TCP traffic, for implementing userland IPv6-to-IPv4 TCP relay like faithd(8). Each faith interface is created at runtime using interface cloning. This is most easily ... |
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fast_ipsec(4) -- hardware-accelerated IP Security Protocols
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IPsec is a set of protocols, ESP (for Encapsulating Security Payload) AH (for Authentication Header), and IPComp (for IP Payload Compression Protocol) that provide security services for IP datagrams. ... |
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fatm(4) -- Device driver for Fore PCA200E ATM interfaces
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The fatm device driver supports the FORE (now Marconi) PCA200E ATM interface cards. The driver interfaces with the natm(4) framework, netgraph(4) and HARP. It provides only PVC services. Signalling, A... |
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fd(4) -- file descriptor files
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The files /dev/fd/0 through /dev/fd/# refer to file descriptors which can be accessed through the file system. If the file descriptor is open and the mode the file is being opened with is a subset of ... |
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fdc(4) -- PC architecture floppy disk controller driver
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Device Usage This driver provides access to floppy disk drives. Floppy disks using either FM (single-density) or MFM (double or high-density) recording can be handled. Floppy disk controllers can conn... |
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i386/fe(4) -- Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A based Ethernet adapters
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The fe is a network device driver for Ethernet adapters based on Fujitsu MB86960A, MB86965A, or other compatible chips, such as: +o Allied Telesis RE1000, RE1000Plus, ME1500 (110-pin) +o CONTEC C-NET(... |
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fea(4) -- device drivers for DEC FDDI controllers
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The fpa and fea device driver provides support for the DEC DEFPA PCI FDDI Controller and the DEC DEFEA EISA FDDI Controller, respectively. All variants of either controller are supported including the... |
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firewire(4) -- IEEE1394 High-performance Serial Bus
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FreeBSD provides machine-independent bus support and raw drivers for firewire interfaces. The firewire driver consists of two layers: the controller and the bus layer. The controller attaches to a phy... |
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fla(4) -- M-systems DiskOnChip
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DiskOnChip is a family of high-performance, single-chip flash disks available in a wide range of capacities. The fla driver supports the following in the family of M-systems DiskOnChip: DiskOnChip2000... |
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fpa(4) -- device drivers for DEC FDDI controllers
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The fpa and fea device driver provides support for the DEC DEFPA PCI FDDI Controller and the DEC DEFEA EISA FDDI Controller, respectively. All variants of either controller are supported including the... |
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fwe(4) -- Ethernet emulation driver for FireWire
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The fwe driver provides non-standard ethernet emulation over FireWire (IEEE 1394). firewire(4) and fwohci(4) must be configured in the kernel as well. This driver exploits asynchronous stream over IEE... |
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fwohci(4) -- OHCI firewire chipset device driver
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The fwohci driver provides support for PCI/CardBus firewire interface cards. The driver supports following IEEE 1394 OHCI chipsets. NEC uPD72861 Texas Instruments TSB12LV{22,23,26}, TSB43{AA22,AB22/A}... |
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fxp(4) -- Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B ethernet device driver
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The fxp driver provides support for the EtherExpress Pro/10, InBusiness 10/100, Pro/100 B, Pro/100+, Pro/100 VE, Pro/100 M, and Pro/100 S PCI Fast Ethernet adapters based on the Intel i82557, i82558, ... |
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gbde(4) -- Geom Based Disk Encryption
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NOTICE: Please be aware that this code has not yet received much review and analysis by qualified cryptographers and therefore should be consid- ered a slightly suspect experimental facility. We canno... |
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gem(4) -- ERI/GEM/GMAC Ethernet device driver
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The gem driver provides support for the GMac Ethernet hardware found mostly in the last Apple PowerBooks G3s and most G4-based Apple hardware, as well as many Sun UltraSPARCs. Cards supported by this ... |
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geom(4) -- modular disk I/O request transformation framework.
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The GEOM framework provides an infrastructure in which "classes" can perform transformations on disk I/O requests on their path from the upper kernel to the device drivers and back. Transformations ... |
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GEOM(4) -- modular disk I/O request transformation framework.
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The GEOM framework provides an infrastructure in which "classes" can perform transformations on disk I/O requests on their path from the upper kernel to the device drivers and back. Transformations ... |
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gif(4) -- generic tunnel interface
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The gif interface is a generic tunnelling device for IPv4 and IPv6. It can tunnel IPv[46] traffic over IPv[46]. Therefore, there can be four possible configurations. The behavior of gif is mainly base... |
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gre(4) -- encapsulating network device
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The gre network interface pseudo device encapsulates datagrams into IP. These encapsulated datagrams are routed to a destination host, where they are decapsulated and further routed to their final des... |
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i386/gsc(4) -- a device driver for a handy scanner
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The gsc character device driver currently handles only the Genius GS-4500 handy scanner. It operates in pure DMA modes, although the hardware could be set up to work with irq. I had neither enough doc... |
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gusc(4) -- Gravis UltraSound ISA bridge device driver
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The gusc bridge driver allows the generic audio drivers including pcm(4) to attach to the following ISA sound cards: +o Gravis UltraSound PnP +o Gravis UltraSound MAX The value of flags specifies the ... |
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gx(4) -- Intel Pro/1000 gigabit ethernet driver
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The gx driver provides support for NICs based on the Intel 82542 and 82543 gigabit ethernet controller chips. Both fiber and copper variants of the cards are supported. The 82542 supports TBI (ten bit... |
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harp(4) -- Pseudo physical interface driver for HARP
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The harp driver when loaded attaches to all netgraph ATM interface in the system and for each of these interfaces presents a physical interface to the HARP stack. The name of the harp physical interfa... |
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hatm(4) -- Device driver for Fore/Marconi HE155 and HE622 ATM interfaces
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The hatm device driver supports the FORE (now Marconi) HE155 and HE622 ATM interface cards. The driver interfaces with the natm(4) framework, netgraph(4) and the HARP ATM stack. It provides only PVC s... |
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hifn(4) -- Hifn 7751/7951/7811/7955/7956 crypto accelerator
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The hifn driver supports various cards containing the Hifn 7751, 7951, 7811, 7955, and 7956 chipsets, such as Invertex AEON No longer being made. Came as 128KB SRAM model, or 2MB DRAM model. Hifn 7751... |
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hme(4) -- Sun Microelectronics STP2002-STQ Ethernet interfaces device driver
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The hme driver supports Sun Microelectronics STP2002-STQ Fast Ethernet interfaces. |
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i4b(4) -- isdn4bsd call control ISDN driver
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The i4b device driver is used by the isdnd(8) daemon to exchange messages with the isdn4bsd kernel part for the purpose of call establishment, control and disconnection and to access various control a... |
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i4bcapi(4) -- CAPI driver for the isdn4bsd kernel part
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i4bcapi is a CAPI driver for the isdn4bsd package. It sits between layer 4 of isdn4bsd and a driver for an active ISDN card; currently only the iavc(4) driver for the AVM B1 and T1 family of active ca... |
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i4bctl(4) -- control device for the isdn4bsd kernel part
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The i4bctl device is used by the isdndebug(8) utility to get and set the current debugging level and other information of the isdn4bsd package kernel ISDN handling layers. |
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i4bing(4) -- isdn4bsd NetGraph ISDN B-channel interface driver
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The i4bing driver interfaces the FreeBSD NetGraph subsystem with the isdn4bsd package. The driver just packs packets received from the NetGraph subsystem without anything appended or prepended into ra... |
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i4bipr(4) -- isdn4bsd IP over ISDN B-channel network driver
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The i4bipr driver interfaces the IP subsystem of the operating system with the isdn4bsd package so that transport of IP packets over an ISDN link is possible. The driver just packs IP packets without ... |
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i4bisppp(4) -- isdn4bsd synchronous PPP over ISDN B-channel network driver
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The i4bisppp driver interfaces the IP subsystem of the operating system with the isdn4bsd package so that a transport of IP packets over an ISDN link is possible. The driver is just a glue layer betwe... |
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i4bq921(4) -- isdn4bsd pseudo device driver handling the Q.921 protocol
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i4bq921 is the ISDN D channel layer 2 handler. |
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i4bq931(4) -- isdn4bsd pseudo device driver handling the Q.931 protocol
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i4bq931 is the ISDN D channel layer 3 handler. |
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i4brbch(4) -- isdn4bsd ISDN Raw B-CHannel access driver
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The i4brbch driver provides an interface to the raw untranslated B-channel. It is part of the isdn4bsd package. |
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i4btel(4) -- isdn4bsd ISDN B-channel telephony interface driver
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The i4btel driver provides an interface to the ISDN B-channel for telephony applications and is currently used by the isdnd(8) for answering machine support. The driver is part of the isdn4bsd package... |
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i4btrc(4) -- isdn4bsd ISDN interface driver for D and B channel tracing
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The i4btrc driver is used to add a header to the data got from the D and/or B channel and queues it to be read and further processed by the isdntrace(8) or isdndecode(8) utilities. |
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iavc(4) -- isdn4bsd AVM B1/T1 driver
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The iavc driver is used to access the AVM family of active cards to the i4bcapi(4) driver and the isdn4bsd package. Currently the AVM B1 PCI, the AVM B1 ISA and the AVM T1 PCI cards are supported. |
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ichsmb(4) -- Intel ICH SMBus controller driver
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This driver provides access to the SMBus controller logical device contained in the Intel 82801AA (ICH), 82801AB (ICH0), 82801BA (ICH2), 82801CA (ICH3), and 82801DC (ICH4) PCI chips. |
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icmp(4) -- Internet Control Message Protocol
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ICMP is the error and control message protocol used by IP and the Internet protocol family. It may be accessed through a ``raw socket'' for network monitoring and diagnostic functions. The proto par... |
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icmp6(4) -- Internet Control Message Protocol for IPv6
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ICMPv6 is the error and control message protocol used by IPv6 and the Internet protocol family. It may be accessed through a ``raw socket'' for network monitoring and diagnostic functions. The proto... |
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ida(4) -- Compaq Intelligent Drive Array Controllers
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The Compaq Intelligent Drive Array (IDA) technology is used to distribute data across an array of hard drives. It unites these hard drives into one or more high-performance logical drives. The drive a... |
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idt(4) -- device driver for IDT NICStAR-based ATM interfaces
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The idt device driver supports ATM network interfaces based on the IDT NICStAR 77211 controller, including the FORE Systems ForeRunner LE25 and LE155. For configuring the card for IP see natmip(4). AT... |
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i386/ie(4) -- ethernet device driver
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The ie driver provides support for 8 and 16bit ISA ethernet cards that are based on the Intel i82586 chip. It supports the AT&T Starlan 10 and Starlan Fiber, the EN100, the Intel EtherExpress 16, the ... |
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ieee80211(4) -- standard interface to IEEE 802.11 devices
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This section describes the interface standard interface to configuration and status information on IEEE 802.11 devices. Most devices support options not configurable by this interface. They must be se... |
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ifmib(4) -- Management Information Base for network interfaces
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The ifmib facility is an application of the sysctl(3) interface to provide management information about network interfaces to client applications such as netstat(1), slstat(8), and SNMP management age... |
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ifpi(4) -- isdn4bsd AVM Fritz!Card PCI Version 1 driver
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The ifpi driver provides D-channel layer 1 support as specified in ITU Recommendation I.430 and layer 1 support for the B-channel. The driver supports passive PCI ISDN Version 1.0 cards from AVM based... |
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ifpi2(4) -- isdn4bsd AVM Fritz!Card PCI Version 2 driver
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The ifpi2 driver provides D-channel layer 1 support as specified in ITU Recommendation I.430 and layer 1 support for the B-channel. The driver supports the version 2 passive PCI ISDN cards from AVM ba... |
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ifpnp(4) -- isdn4bsd AVM Fritz!Card ISA PnP driver
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The ifpnp driver provides D-channel layer 1 supports as specified in ITU Recommendation I.430 and layer 1 support for the B-channel. The driver supports passive ISA PnP ISDN cards from AVM, based on t... |
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if_an(4) -- Aironet Communications 4500/4800 wireless network adapter driver
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The an driver provides support for Aironet Communications 4500 and 4800 wireless network adapters and variants, including the following: +o Aironet Communications 4500 and 4800 series +o Cisco Aironet... |
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if_aue(4) -- ADMtek AN986 Pegasus USB Ethernet driver
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The aue driver provides support for USB ethernet adapters based on the ADMtek AN986 Pegasus chipset, including the following: +o Abocom UFE1000, DSB650TX_NA +o Accton USB320-EC, SpeedStream +o ADMtek ... |
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if_awi(4) -- AMD PCnetMobile IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA wireless network driver
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The awi driver supports various IEEE 802.11 wireless cards which run AMD PCnetMobile firmware based on AMD 79c930 controller with Intersil (formerly Harris) PRISM radio chipset. It provides access to ... |
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if_bge(4) -- Broadcom BCM570x PCI gigabit ethernet adapter driver
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The bge driver provides support for various NICs based on the Broadcom BCM570x family of gigabit ethernet controller chips, including the following: +o 3Com 3c996-T (10/100/1000baseTX) +o Dell PowerEd... |
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if_cue(4) -- CATC USB-EL1210A USB Ethernet driver
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The cue driver provides support for USB ethernet adapters based on the Computer Access Technology Corporation's USB-EL1210A chipset, including the CATC Netmate and Netmate II, the Belkin F5U011/F5U11... |
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if_dc(4) -- DEC/Intel 21143 and clone 10/100 ethernet driver
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The dc driver provides support for several PCI fast ethernet adapters and embedded controllers based on the following chipsets: +o DEC/Intel 21143 +o ADMtek AL981 Comet, AN985 Centaur, ADM9511 Centaur... |
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if_de(4) -- DEC DC21x4x Ethernet device driver
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The de driver provides support for the Ethernet adapters based on the Digital Equipment DC21x4x based self-contained Ethernet and Fast Ethernet chips, including: +o Asante +o Cogent EM100FX and EM440T... |
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if_disc(4) -- software discard network interface
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The disc interface is a software discard mechanism which may be used for performance analysis and/or software testing. As with other network interfaces, the discard interface must have network address... |
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if_ed(4) -- ethernet device driver
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The ed driver provides support for 8 and 16bit ethernet cards that are based on the National Semiconductor DS8390 and similar NICs manufactured by other companies. It supports all 80x3 series ethernet... |
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if_ef(4) -- pseudo-device driver providing support for multiple ethernet frame types
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The ef pseudo-device driver clones each ethernet type device with four additional interfaces. Each of them is capable to send or receive only one predefined frame type. Names for the new interfaces cr... |
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if_em(4) -- Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit Ethernet driver for the FreeBSD operating system
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The em driver provides support for PCI gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the Intel 82540, 82542, 82543, 82544 and 82546 Ethernet controller chips. The driver supports Transmit/Receive checksum offloa... |
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if_en(4) -- device driver for Midway-based ATM interfaces
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The en device driver supports Midway-based ATM interfaces including the Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155 and Adaptec ANA-59x0. Midway is an AAL5 SAR (Segmentation and Reassembly) chip. For configuring... |
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if_faith(4) -- IPv6-to-IPv4 TCP relay capturing interface
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The faith interface captures IPv6 TCP traffic, for implementing userland IPv6-to-IPv4 TCP relay like faithd(8). Each faith interface is created at runtime using interface cloning. This is most easily ... |
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if_fatm(4) -- Device driver for Fore PCA200E ATM interfaces
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The fatm device driver supports the FORE (now Marconi) PCA200E ATM interface cards. The driver interfaces with the natm(4) framework, netgraph(4) and HARP. It provides only PVC services. Signalling, A... |
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if_fwp(4) -- Ethernet emulation driver for FireWire
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The fwe driver provides non-standard ethernet emulation over FireWire (IEEE 1394). firewire(4) and fwohci(4) must be configured in the kernel as well. This driver exploits asynchronous stream over IEE... |
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if_fxp(4) -- Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B ethernet device driver
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The fxp driver provides support for the EtherExpress Pro/10, InBusiness 10/100, Pro/100 B, Pro/100+, Pro/100 VE, Pro/100 M, and Pro/100 S PCI Fast Ethernet adapters based on the Intel i82557, i82558, ... |
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if_gem(4) -- ERI/GEM/GMAC Ethernet device driver
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The gem driver provides support for the GMac Ethernet hardware found mostly in the last Apple PowerBooks G3s and most G4-based Apple hardware, as well as many Sun UltraSPARCs. Cards supported by this ... |
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if_gif(4) -- generic tunnel interface
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The gif interface is a generic tunnelling device for IPv4 and IPv6. It can tunnel IPv[46] traffic over IPv[46]. Therefore, there can be four possible configurations. The behavior of gif is mainly base... |
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if_gre(4) -- encapsulating network device
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The gre network interface pseudo device encapsulates datagrams into IP. These encapsulated datagrams are routed to a destination host, where they are decapsulated and further routed to their final des... |
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if_gx(4) -- Intel Pro/1000 gigabit ethernet driver
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The gx driver provides support for NICs based on the Intel 82542 and 82543 gigabit ethernet controller chips. Both fiber and copper variants of the cards are supported. The 82542 supports TBI (ten bit... |
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if_hatm(4) -- Device driver for Fore/Marconi HE155 and HE622 ATM interfaces
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The hatm device driver supports the FORE (now Marconi) HE155 and HE622 ATM interface cards. The driver interfaces with the natm(4) framework, netgraph(4) and the HARP ATM stack. It provides only PVC s... |
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if_hme(4) -- Sun Microelectronics STP2002-STQ Ethernet interfaces device driver
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The hme driver supports Sun Microelectronics STP2002-STQ Fast Ethernet interfaces. |
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if_idt(4) -- device driver for IDT NICStAR-based ATM interfaces
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The idt device driver supports ATM network interfaces based on the IDT NICStAR 77211 controller, including the FORE Systems ForeRunner LE25 and LE155. For configuring the card for IP see natmip(4). AT... |
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if_kue(4) -- Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101B USB Ethernet driver
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The kue driver provides support for USB ethernet adapters based on the Kawasaki LSI KL5KLUSB101B chipset, including the following: +o 3Com 3c19250 +o AOX USB101 +o Abocom URE 450 +o ADS Technologies U... |
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if_lge(4) -- Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator PCI gigabit ethernet adapter driver
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The lge driver provides support for various NICs based on the Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator gigabit ethernet controller chip, including the following: +o SMC TigerCard 1000 (SMC9462SX) +o D-Link DGE-5... |
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if_nge(4) -- National Semiconductor PCI gigabit ethernet adapter driver
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The nge driver provides support for various NICs based on the National Semiconductor DP83820 and DP83821 gigabit ethernet controller chips, including the following: +o SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX) +o ... |
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if_patm(4) -- Device driver for IDT77252 based ATM interfaces (ProSum and IDT)
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The patm device driver supports ATM cards based on the IDT77252 chip. It has been tested with ProSum's ProATM-155 cards and with IDT's evaluation boards. The driver interfaces with the natm(4) frame... |
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if_pcn(4) -- AMD PCnet/PCI fast ethernet device driver
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The pcn driver provides support for PCI ethernet adapters and embedded controllers based on the AMD PCnet/FAST, PCnet/FAST+, PCnet/FAST III, PCnet/PRO and PCnet/Home ethernet controller chips. The PCn... |
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if_ppp(4) -- point to point protocol network interface
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The ppp interface allows serial lines to be used as network interfaces using the point-to-point protocol. The ppp interface can use various types of compression and has many features over the sl(4) pr... |
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if_rl(4) -- RealTek 8129/8139 Fast Ethernet device driver
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The rl driver provides support for PCI Ethernet adapters and embedded controllers based on the RealTek 8129 and 8139 Fast Ethernet controller chips, including the following: +o Accton ``Cheetah'' EN... |
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i386/if_sbni(4) -- Granch SBNI12 leased line modem driver
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The sbni driver provides support for leased line modems of following models: +o SBNI12-02, SBNI12D-02 +o SBNI12-04, SBNI12D-04 +o SBNI12-05, SBNI12D-05, ISA and PCI +o SBNI12-10, SBNI12D-10, ISA and P... |
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if_sbsh(4) -- Granch SBNI16 SHDSL modem device driver
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The sbsh driver provides support for an internal PCI modem SBNI16-SHDSL. A device is introduced to the OS as a common Ethernet-like network card which must be configured with ifconfig(8) (all standard... |
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if_sf(4) -- Adaptec AIC-6915 "Starfire" PCI fast ethernet adapter driver
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The sf driver provides support for Adaptec Duralink fast ethernet adapters based on the Adaptec AIC-6915 "Starfire" chipset. This includes the following: +o ANA-62011 64-bit single port 10/100baseTX... |
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if_sis(4) -- SiS 900, SiS 7016 and NS DP83815 Fast Ethernet device driver
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The sis driver provides support for PCI Ethernet adapters and embedded controllers based on the Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900 and SiS 7016 Fast Ethernet controller chips, including: +o @Nifty FNE... |
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if_sk(4) -- SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x PCI gigabit ethernet adapter driver
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The sk driver provides support for the SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x series PCI gigabit ethernet adapters, including the following: +o 3COM 3C940 single port, 1000baseT adapter +o Linksys EG1032 sing... |
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if_sl(4) -- slip network interface
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The sl interface allows serial lines to be used as network interfaces using the slip protocol. The sl interface can use Van Jacobson TCP header compression and ICMP filtering. This is arranged by usin... |
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if_sn(4) -- Ethernet driver for SMC91Cxx based cards
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The sn device driver supports SMC9xxx based ISA and PCMCIA cards. |
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if_ste(4) -- Sundance Technologies ST201 fast ethernet device driver
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The ste driver provides support for PCI ethernet adapters and embedded controllers based on the Sundance Technologies ST201 PCI fast ethernet controller chip. This includes the D-Link DFE-550TX. The S... |
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if_stf(4) -- 6to4 tunnel interface
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The stf interface supports ``6to4'' IPv6 in IPv4 encapsulation. It can tunnel IPv6 traffic over IPv4, as specified in RFC3056. For ordinary nodes in 6to4 site, you do not need stf interface. The stf... |
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if_tap(4) -- Ethernet tunnel software network interface
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The tap interface is a software loopback mechanism that can be loosely described as the network interface analog of the pty(4), that is, tap does for network interfaces what the pty driver does for te... |
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if_ti(4) -- Alteon Networks Tigon I and Tigon II gigabit ethernet driver
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The ti driver provides support for PCI gigabit ethernet adapters based on the Alteon Networks Tigon gigabit ethernet controller chip. The Tigon contains an embedded R4000 CPU, gigabit MAC, dual DMA ch... |
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if_tl(4) -- Texas Instruments ThunderLAN ethernet device driver
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The tl driver provides support for PCI ethernet adapters based on the Texas Instruments ThunderLAN ethernet controller chip. This includes a large number of Compaq PCI-bus ethernet adapters as well as... |
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if_tun(4) -- tunnel software network interface
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The tun interface is a software loopback mechanism that can be loosely described as the network interface analog of the pty(4), that is, tun does for network interfaces what the pty(4) driver does for... |
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if_txp(4) -- 3Com 3XP Typhoon/Sidewinder (3CR990) Ethernet interface
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The txp interface provides access to the 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s Ethernet networks via the 3Com Typhoon/Sidewinder chipset. This driver supports the following cards: +o 3Com 3CR990-TX-95 +o 3Com 3CR990-TX-... |
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if_vlan(4) -- IEEE 802.1Q VLAN network interface
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The vlan driver demultiplexes frames tagged according to the IEEE 802.1Q standard into logical vlan network interfaces, which allows routing/bridging between multiple VLANs through a single switch tru... |
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if_vr(4) -- VIA Technologies Rhine I/II/III ethernet device driver
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The vr driver provides support for PCI ethernet adapters and embedded controllers based on the VIA Technologies VT3043 Rhine I, VT86C100A Rhine II, and VT6105/VT6105M Rhine III fast ethernet controlle... |
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if_wb(4) -- Winbond W89C840F fast ethernet device driver
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The wb driver provides support for PCI ethernet adapters and embedded controllers based on the Winbond W89C840F fast ethernet controller chip. This includes the Trendware TE100-PCIE and various other ... |
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if_wi(4) -- Lucent Hermes, Intersil PRISM and Spectrum24 IEEE 802.11 driver
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The wi driver provides support for wireless network adapters based around the Lucent Hermes, Intersil PRISM-II, Intersil PRISM-2.5, Intersil Prism-3, and Symbol Spectrum24 chipsets. All five chipsets ... |
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if_xl(4) -- 3Com Etherlink XL and Fast Etherlink XL ethernet device driver
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The xl driver provides support for PCI ethernet adapters and embedded controllers based on the 3Com "boomerang," "cyclone," "hurricane" and "tornado" bus-master Etherlink XL chips. This includ... |
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ihfc(4) -- isdn4bsd ISA Cologne Chip HFC[-S][-SP] 2B[DS0] driver
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The ihfc driver provides D-channel layer 1 supports as specified in ITU Recommendation I.430 and layer 1 support for the B-channel. The driver supports some passive ISA ISDN cards based on the HFC[-S]... |
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iic(4) -- I2C generic i/o device driver
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The iic character device driver provides generic i/o to any iicbus(4) instance. In order to control I2C devices, use /dev/iic? with the following ioctls: Ioctl Description I2CSTART send start conditio... |
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iicbb(4) -- I2C generic bit-banging driver
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The iicbb driver provides support to any bit-banging interface for the iicbus(4) system. |
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iicbus(4) -- I2C bus system
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The iicbus system provides a uniform, modular and architecture-independent system for the implementation of drivers to control various I2C devices and to utilize different I2C controllers. |
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iicsmb(4) -- I2C to SMB bridge
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The iicsmb driver supports SMB commands over iicbus(4) for the smbus(4) system. |
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iir(4) -- Intel Integrated RAID controller and ICP Vortex driver
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The iir driver claims to interface with the Intel integrated RAID controller cards, and all versions of the ICP Vortex controllers (including FC). Supported controllers include: Intel RAID Controller ... |
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imm(4) -- parallel to SCSI interface driver
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The primary purpose of the vpo driver is to provide access to the Adaptec AIC-7110 SCSI controller built in the Iomega ZIP drive. But it should also work with the Iomega Jaz Traveller parallel to SCSI... |
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inet(4) -- Internet protocol family
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The Internet protocol family is a collection of protocols layered atop the Internet Protocol (IP) transport layer, and utilizing the Internet address format. The Internet family provides protocol supp... |
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inet6(4) -- Internet protocol version 6 family
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The inet6 family is an updated version of inet(4) family. While inet(4) implements Internet Protocol version 4, inet6 implements Internet Protocol version 6. inet6 is a collection of protocols layered... |
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intpm(4) -- Intel PIIX4 Power Management controller driver
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This driver provides access to Intel PIIX4 PCI Controller function 3, Power management controller. Currently, only smbus controller function is implemented. But it also have bus idle monitoring functi... |
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intro(4) -- introduction to devices and device drivers
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This section contains information related to devices, device drivers and miscellaneous hardware. The device abstraction [Toc] [Back] Device is a term used mostly for hardware-related stuff that ... |
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i386/io(4) -- I/O privilege file
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The special file /dev/io is a controlled security hole that allows a process to gain I/O privileges (which are normally reserved for kernelinternal code). Any process that holds a file descriptor on /... |
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ip(4) -- Internet Protocol
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IP is the transport layer protocol used by the Internet protocol family. Options may be set at the IP level when using higher-level protocols that are based on IP (such as TCP and UDP). It may also be... |
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ip6(4) -- Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
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IPv6 is the network layer protocol used by the Internet protocol version 6 family (AF_INET6). Options may be set at the IPv6 level when using higher-level protocols that are based on IPv6 (such as TCP... |
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ipaccounting(4) -- IP packet filter and traffic accounting
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The ipfw system facility allows filtering, redirecting, and other operations on IP packets travelling through network interfaces. The user interface for ipfw is implemented by the ipfw(8) utility, so ... |
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ipacct(4) -- IP packet filter and traffic accounting
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The ipfw system facility allows filtering, redirecting, and other operations on IP packets travelling through network interfaces. The user interface for ipfw is implemented by the ipfw(8) utility, so ... |
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ipf(4) -- packet filtering kernel interface
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ipfirewall(4) -- IP packet filter and traffic accounting
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The ipfw system facility allows filtering, redirecting, and other operations on IP packets travelling through network interfaces. The user interface for ipfw is implemented by the ipfw(8) utility, so ... |
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ipfw(4) -- IP packet filter and traffic accounting
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The ipfw system facility allows filtering, redirecting, and other operations on IP packets travelling through network interfaces. The user interface for ipfw is implemented by the ipfw(8) utility, so ... |
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ipl(4) -- IP packet log device
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The ipl pseudo device's purpose is to provide an easy way to gather packet headers of packets you wish to log. If a packet header is to be logged, the entire header is logged (including any IP option... |
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ipnat(4) -- Network Address Translation kernel interface
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ips(4) -- IBM/Adaptec ServeRAID controller driver
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The ips driver claims to support the IBM (now Adaptec) ServeRAID series SCSI controller cards. Some supported devices include: IBM ServeRAID 3H ServeRAID 4L/4M/4H ServeRAID Series 5 ServeRAID 6i/6M Th... |
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ipsec(4) -- IP security protocol
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ipsec is a security protocol in Internet Protocol layer. ipsec is defined for both IPv4 and IPv6 (inet(4) and inet6(4)). ipsec consists of two sub-protocols, namely ESP (encapsulated security payload)... |
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isic(4) -- isdn4bsd Siemens ISDN Chipset device driver
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The isic driver provides D-channel layer 1 supports as specified in ITU Recommendation I.430 and layer 1 support for the B-channel. The driver supports several 8 and 16bit passive ISA, ISA PnP and PCI... |
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isp(4) -- Qlogic based SCSI and FibreChannel SCSI Host Adapters
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This driver provides access to SCSI or FibreChannel devices. SCSI features include support for Ultra SCSI and wide mode transactions for SCSI, Ultra2 LVD (for the ISP1080 and ISP1280), and Ultra3 LVD ... |
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ispfw(4) -- Firmware Module for Qlogic based SCSI and FibreChannel SCSI Host Adapters
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This trivial driver provides access to firmware sets for the Qlogic based SCSI and FibreChannel SCSI Host Adapters. It may either be statically linked into the kernel, or loaded as a module. In either... |
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itjc(4) -- isdn4bsd NETjet-S / Teles PCI-TJ hardware driver
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The itjc driver provides D-channel layer 1 supports as specified in ITU Recommendation I.430 and layer 1 support for the B-channel. The driver supports passive PCI ISDN cards based on the combination ... |
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iwic(4) -- isdn4bsd Winbond ISDN Chip device driver
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The iwic driver provides D-channel layer 1 supports as specified in ITU Recommendation I.430 and layer 1 support for the B-channel. The driver supports passive PCI ISDN cards from various manufacturer... |
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joy(4) -- joystick device driver
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The joystick device driver allows applications to read the status of the PC joystick. This device may be opened by only one process at a time. The joystick status is read from a structure via a read()... |
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kame(4) -- introduction and roadmap to KAME IPv6 software package
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KAME software package is a result of joint work of several IPv6 researchers in Japan, to provide reference implementation of IPv6 to Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) derived system such as BSD/OS,... |
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keyboard(4) -- pc keyboard interface
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The PC keyboard is used as the console character input device. The keyboard is owned by the current virtual console. To switch between the virtual consoles use the sequence ALT+Fn, which means hold do... |
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kld(4) -- dynamic kernel linker facility
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The LKM (Loadable Kernel Modules) facility has been deprecated in FreeBSD 3.0 and above in favor of the kld interface. This interface, like its predecessor, allows the system administrator to dynamica... |
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kmem(4) -- memory files
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The special file /dev/mem is an interface to the physical memory of the computer. Byte offsets in this file are interpreted as physical memory addresses. Reading and writing this file is equivalent to... |
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ktr(4) -- kernel tracing facility
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The ktr facility allows kernel events to be logged while the kernel executes so that they can be examined later when debugging. The only mandatory option to enable ktr is ``options KTR''. The KTR_EN... |
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kue(4) -- Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101B USB Ethernet driver
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The kue driver provides support for USB ethernet adapters based on the Kawasaki LSI KL5KLUSB101B chipset, including the following: +o 3Com 3c19250 +o AOX USB101 +o Abocom URE 450 +o ADS Technologies U... |
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i386/le(4) -- DEC EtherWORKS II/III Ethernet device driver
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The le driver provides support for the later Digital Equipment EtherWORKS II (DE200, DE201, DE202, DE422), and the DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205) NICs. The valid IRQ settings for th... |
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led(4) -- enable soekris hardware specific options like the error LED
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The led driver provides generic support for handling LEDs, lamps and other announciators. The hardware driver must supply a function to turn the announciator on and off and the device name of the anno... |
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lge(4) -- Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator PCI gigabit ethernet adapter driver
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The lge driver provides support for various NICs based on the Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator gigabit ethernet controller chip, including the following: +o SMC TigerCard 1000 (SMC9462SX) +o D-Link DGE-5... |
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i386/linux(4) -- Linux ABI support
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The linux module provides limited Linux ABI (application binary interface) compatibility for userland applications. The module provides the following significant facilities: +o An image activator for ... |
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lmc(4) -- LAN Media Corp. PCI WAN adapter driver
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The lmc driver supports Lan Media Corp. Wide Area Network (WAN) adapters based on the DEC DECchip 21140A (DEC ``Tulip'') PCI Fast Ethernet controller. Supported boards include: LMC1000 Synchronous S... |
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i386/lnc(4) -- AMD Lance/PCnet Ethernet device driver
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The lnc driver provides support for the AMD family of Lance/PCnet Ethernet NICs including the Am7990 and Am79C960. The Ethernet cards supported by the lnc interface are: Novell NE2100 Novell NE32-VL I... |
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lo(4) -- software loopback network interface
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The loop interface is a software loopback mechanism which may be used for performance analysis, software testing, and/or local communication. As with other network interfaces, the loopback interface m... |
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lomac(4) -- Low-Watermark Mandatory Access Control security facility
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The LOMAC module provides a drop-in security mechanism in addition to the traditional POSIX UID-based security facilities, requiring no additional configuration from the administrator. LOMAC aims to b... |
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i386/longrun(4) -- Transmeta(TM) Crusoe(TM) LongRun(TM) support
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loop(4) -- software loopback network interface
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The loop interface is a software loopback mechanism which may be used for performance analysis, software testing, and/or local communication. As with other network interfaces, the loopback interface m... |
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lp(4) -- printer port Internet Protocol driver
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The lp driver allows a PC parallel printer port to be used as a point-topoint network interface between two similarly configured systems. Data is transferred 4 bits at a time, using the printer status... |
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lpbb(4) -- parallel port I2C bit-banging interface
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The lpbb driver supports the Philips official I2C parallel bit-banging interface. LS05 pin 14 (Vcc) o ------- | | | +--+--+---------------------+--+--+------------+------+-o 1 | | | | | | | ===.1uF | ... |
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lpt(4) -- generic printer device driver
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The current lpt driver is the port of the original lpt driver to the ppbus(4) system. One purpose of this port was to allow parallel port sharing with other parallel devices. Secondly, inb()/outb() ca... |
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mac(4) -- Mandatory Access Control
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Introduction The Mandatory Access Control, or MAC, framework allows administrators to finely control system security by providing for a loadable security policy architecture. It is important to note t... |
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mac_biba(4) -- Biba data integrity policy
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The mac_biba policy module implements the Biba integrity model, which protects the integrity of system objects and subjects by means of a strict information flow policy. In Biba, all system subjects a... |
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mac_bsdextended(4) -- file system firewall policy
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The mac_bsdextended interface provides an interface for the system administrator to impose mandatory rules regarding users and some system objects. Rules are uploaded to the module (typically using ug... |
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mac_ifoff(4) -- interface silencing policy
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The mac_ifoff interface silencing module allows administrators to enable and disable incoming and outgoing data flow on system network interfaces via the sysctl(8) interface. To disable network traffi... |
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mac_lomac(4) -- Low-watermark Mandatory Access Control data integrity policy
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The mac_lomac policy module implements the LOMAC integrity model, which protects the integrity of system objects and subjects by means of an information flow policy coupled with the subject demotion v... |
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mac_mls(4) -- Multi-Level Security confidentiality policy
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The mac_mls policy module implements the Multi-Level Security, or MLS model, which controls access between subjects and objects based on their confidentiality by means of a strict information flow pol... |
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mac_none(4) -- null MAC policy module
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The mac_none policy module implements a sample MAC policy that has no effect on access control in the system. Unlinke 4(mac_stub), none of the MAC entry points are defined. Label Format [Toc] [B... |
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mac_partition(4) -- process partition policy
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The mac_partition policy module implements a process partition policy, which allows administrators to place running processes into ``partitions'', based on their numeric process partition (specified... |
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mac_portacl(4) -- network port access control policy
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The mac_portacl policy allows administrators to administratively limit binding to local UDP and TCP ports via the sysctl(8) interface. In order to enable the mac_portacl policy, MAC policy must be enf... |
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mac_seeotheruids(4) -- simple policy controlling whether users see other users
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The mac_seeotheruids policy module, when enabled, denies users to see processes or sockets owned by other users. To enable mac_seeotheruids, set the sysctl OID security.mac.seeotheruids.enabled to 1. ... |
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mac_stub(4) -- MAC policy stub module
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The mac_stub policy module implements a sample MAC policy that has no effect on access control in the system. Unlinke 4(mac_none), each MAC entry point is defined as a ``no-op'', so the policy modul... |
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mac_test(4) -- MAC framework testing policy
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The mac_test policy module implements a testing facility for the MAC framework. Among other things, mac_test will try to catch corrupt labels the system is attempting to destroy and drop to the debugg... |
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maestro3(4) -- FreeBSD audio sub-driver for ESS Maestro3/Allegro-1 hardware
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The maestro3 driver provides support for the ESS Maestro3 and Allegro-1 sound chips under the PCM framework. These chips are mostly found in laptop computers and feature an AC97 mixer, a multi-channel... |
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i386/mcd(4) -- Mitsumi CD-ROM driver
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The mcd driver provides a data and audio interface to the Mitsumi-brand CD-ROM player. The CD-ROM player must be interfaced to the ISA bus through one of the Mitsumi proprietary controller boards. The... |
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md(4) -- memory disk
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The md driver provides support for four kinds of memory backed virtual disks: malloc Backing store is allocated using malloc(9). Only one mallocbucket is used, which means that all md devices with mal... |
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mem(4) -- memory files
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The special file /dev/mem is an interface to the physical memory of the computer. Byte offsets in this file are interpreted as physical memory addresses. Reading and writing this file is equivalent to... |
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i386/meteor(4) -- video capture driver
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The meteor driver provides support for a PCI video capture. It allows the capture of 24 bit RGB, 16 bit RGB and 16 bit YUV output formats. Meteor Driver Installation [Toc] [Back] To use the Matr... |
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miibus(4) -- IEEE 802.3 Media Independent Interface network bus
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The miibus driver provides an interconnection between the Media Access Control (MAC) sublayer, the Physical Layer entities (PHY), Station Management (STA) entities, and the PHY Layer as defined by the... |
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mlx(4) -- Mylex DAC-family RAID driver
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The mlx driver provides support for Mylex DAC-family PCI to SCSI RAID controllers, including versions relabeled by Digital/Compaq. Supported controllers include: +o DAC960P +o DAC960PD / DEC KZPSC (Fa... |
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mly(4) -- Mylex AcceleRAID/eXtremeRAID family driver
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The mly driver provides support for Mylex AcceleRAID and eXtremeRAID-family PCI to SCSI RAID controllers with version 6.00 and later firmware. Supported controllers include: +o AcceleRAID 160 +o Accel... |
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mouse(4) -- mouse and pointing device drivers
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The mouse drivers mse(4), psm(4), ums(4) and sysmouse(4) provide user programs with movement and button state information of the mouse. Currently there are specific device drivers for bus, InPort, PS/... |
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mpt(4) -- LSI Fusion-MPT SCSI/Fibre Channel driver
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The mpt driver provides support for the LSI Logic Fusion-MPT family of SCSI and Fibre Channel controllers: +o 53c1030 (Dual Ultra320 SCSI) +o FC909 (1Gb/s Fibre Channel) +o FC909A (Dual 1Gb/s Fibre Ch... |
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i386/mse(4) -- bus and InPort mice driver
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The mse driver provides support for the bus mouse and the InPort mouse, which are often collectively called ``bus'' mice, as these mice are sold with an interface card which needs to be installed in... |
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mtio(4) -- FreeBSD magtape interface
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The special files named /dev/[n]sa* refer to SCSI tape drives, which may be attached to the system. /dev/[n]sa*.ctl are control devices that can be used to issue ioctls to the SCSI tape driver to set ... |
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multicast(4) -- Multicast Routing
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Multicast routing is used to efficiently propagate data packets to a set of multicast listeners in multipoint networks. If unicast is used to replicate the data to all listeners, then some of the netw... |
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my(4) -- Myson Technology Ethernet PCI driver
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The my driver provides support for various NICs based on the Myson chipset. The Myson chipset is a variant of the DEC Tulip NIC chipset. Supported models include: +o Myson MTD800 PCI Fast Ethernet chi... |
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natm(4) -- Native Mode ATM protocol layer
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The BSD ATM software comes with a native mode ATM protocol layer which provides socket level access to AAL0 and AAL5 virtual circuits. To enable this protocol layer, add options NATM to your kernel co... |
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natmip(4) -- IP over ATM PVCs
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The NATM protocol stack includes support for IP over ATM. Without any additional signalling stacks or other modules it is possible to build a CLIP (classical IP over ATM) network based on PVCs. An ATM... |
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ncr(4) -- NCR 53C8xx SCSI driver
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The ncr driver provides support for the following NCR/Symbios SCSI controller chips: +o 53C810 +o 53C810A +o 53C815 +o 53C820 +o 53C825A +o 53C860 +o 53C875 +o 53C875J +o 53C885 +o 53C895 +o 53C895A +... |
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ncv(4) -- NCR 53C500 based SCSI host adapter driver
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The ncv driver provides access to the SCSI bus connected to an NCR 53C500 based PC-Card SCSI host adapter or an Adaptec AHA-2920 on the PCI bus. The following list of devices are currently supported: ... |
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net(4) -- introduction to networking facilities
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This section is a general introduction to the networking facilities available in the system. Documentation in this part of section 4 is broken up into three areas: protocol families (domains), protoco... |
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netgraph(4) -- graph based kernel networking subsystem
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The netgraph system provides a uniform and modular system for the implementation of kernel objects which perform various networking functions. The objects, known as nodes, can be arranged into arbitra... |
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netintro(4) -- introduction to networking facilities
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This section is a general introduction to the networking facilities available in the system. Documentation in this part of section 4 is broken up into three areas: protocol families (domains), protoco... |
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networking(4) -- introduction to networking facilities
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This section is a general introduction to the networking facilities available in the system. Documentation in this part of section 4 is broken up into three areas: protocol families (domains), protoco... |
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nge(4) -- National Semiconductor PCI gigabit ethernet adapter driver
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The nge driver provides support for various NICs based on the National Semiconductor DP83820 and DP83821 gigabit ethernet controller chips, including the following: +o SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX) +o ... |
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ng_async(4) -- asynchronous framing netgraph node type
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The async node type performs conversion between synchronous frames and asynchronous frames, as defined for the PPP protocol in RFC 1662. Asynchronous framing uses flag bytes and octet-stuffing to simu... |
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ng_atm(4) -- netgraph ATM node type
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ng_atmpif(4) -- netgraph HARP/ATM Virtual Physical Interface
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ng_bluetooth(4) -- placeholder for global Bluetooth variables
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The ng_bluetooth module is a placeholder for global Bluetooth variables. All Bluetooth variables can be examined and changed via sysctl(8). Bluetooth Variables [Toc] [Back] Below is the descript... |
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ng_bpf(4) -- Berkeley packet filter netgraph node type
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The bpf node type allows Berkeley Packet Filter (see bpf(4)) filters to be applied to data travelling through a Netgraph network. Each node allows an arbitrary number of connections to arbitrarily nam... |
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ng_bridge(4) -- Ethernet bridging netgraph node type
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The bridge node type performs Ethernet bridging over one or more links. Each link (represented by a connected hook) is used to transmit and receive raw Ethernet frames. As packets are received, the no... |
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ng_bt3c(4) -- Netgraph node type that is also a 3Com Bluetooth PC card driver
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The btccc node type is both a persistent Netgraph node type and a driver for 3Com Bluetooth PC card (3CRWB6096-HP). It implements a Bluetooth HCI UART transport layer as per chapter H4 of the Bluetoot... |
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ng_btsocket(4) -- Bluetooth sockets layer
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The ng_btsocket module implements three Netgraph node types. Each type in its turn implements one protocol within PF_BLUETOOTH domain. BLUETOOTH_PROTO_HCI protocol SOCK_RAW HCI sockets Implemented by ... |
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ng_cisco(4) -- Cisco HDLC protocol netgraph node type
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The cisco node type performs encapsulation and de-encapsulation of packets using the Cisco HDLC protocol. This is a fairly simple protocol for the transmission of packets across high speed synchronous... |
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ng_device(4) -- device netgraph node type
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A device node is both a netgraph node and a system device interface. When a device node is created, a new device entry appears which is accessible via the regular file operators such as open(2), close... |
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ng_echo(4) -- netgraph echo node type
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The echo node type reflects all data and control messages back to the sender. This node type is used for testing and debugging. |
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ng_etf(4) -- Ethertype filtering netgraph node type
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The etf node type multiplexes and filters data between hooks on the basis of the ethertype found in an ethernet header, presumed to be in the first 14 bytes of the data. Incoming Ethernet frames are a... |
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ng_ether(4) -- Ethernet netgraph node type
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The ng_ether netgraph node type allows Ethernet interfaces to interact with the netgraph(4) networking subsystem. Once the ng_ether module is loaded in the kernel, a node is automatically created for ... |
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ng_frame_relay(4) -- frame relay netgraph node type
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The frame_relay node type performs encapsulation, de-encapsulation, and multiplexing of packets using the frame relay protocol. It supports up to 1024 DLCI's. The LMI protocol is handled by a separat... |
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ng_gif(4) -- generic tunnel interface netgraph node type
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The ng_gif netgraph node type allows gif(4) interfaces to interact with the netgraph(4) networking subsystem. Once the ng_gif module is loaded in the kernel, a node is automatically created for each g... |
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ng_gif_demux(4) -- demultiplexer for packets from ng_gif(4) nodes
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The ng_gif_demux netgraph node type demultiplexes the output from ng_gif(4) nodes in the netgraph(4) networking subsystem. The gif hook is meant to be connected to the lower or orphans hook of an ng_g... |
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ng_h4(4) -- Netgraph node type that is also an H4 line discipline
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The h4 node type is both a persistent Netgraph node type and a H4 line discipline. It implements a Bluetooth HCI UART transport layer as per chapter H4 of the Bluetooth Specification Book v1.1. A new ... |
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ng_hci(4) -- Netgraph node type that is also a Bluetooth Host Controller Interface (HCI) layer
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The hci node type is a Netgraph node type that implements Bluetooth Host Controller Interface (HCI) layer as per chapter H1 of the Bluetooth Specification Book v1.1. |
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ng_hole(4) -- netgraph discard node type
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The hole node type silently discards all data and control messages it receives. This type is used for testing and debugging. |
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ng_iface(4) -- interface netgraph node type
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An iface node is both a netgraph node and a system networking interface. When an iface node is created, a new interface appears which is accessible via ifconfig(8). Iface node interfaces are named ng0... |
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ng_ip_input(4) -- netgraph IP input node type
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The ip_input node type takes all received packets and queues them into the IP in input processing subsystem. |
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ng_ksocket(4) -- kernel socket netgraph node type
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A ksocket node is both a netgraph node and a BSD socket. The ng_ksocket node type allows one to open a socket inside the kernel and have it appear as a Netgraph node. The ng_ksocket node type is the r... |
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ng_l2cap(4) -- Netgraph node type that implements Bluetooth Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP)
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The l2cap node type is a Netgraph node type that implements Bluetooth Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol as per chapter D of the Bluetooth Specification Book v1.1. L2CAP provides connection-... |
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ng_l2tp(4) -- L2TP protocol netgraph node type
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The l2tp node type implements the encapsulation layer of the L2TP protocol as described in RFC 2661. This includes adding the L2TP packet header for outgoing packets and verifying and removing it for ... |
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ng_lmi(4) -- frame relay LMI protocol netgraph node type
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The lmi node type performs the frame relay LMI protocol. It supports the ITU Annex A, ANSI Annex D, and Group-of-four LMI types. It also supports auto-detection of the LMI type. To enable a specific L... |
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ng_mppc(4) -- Microsoft MPPC/MPPE compression and encryption netgraph node type
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The mppc node type implements the Microsoft Point-to-Point Compression (MPPC) and Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption (MPPE) sub-protocols of the PPP protocol. These protocols are often used in conjun... |
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ng_one2many(4) -- packet multiplexing netgraph node type
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The one2many provides a simple mechanism for routing packets over several links in a one-to-many (and in the reverse direction, many-to-one) fashion. There is a single hook named one, and multiple hoo... |
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ng_ppp(4) -- PPP protocol netgraph node type
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The ppp node type performs multiplexing for the PPP protocol. It handles only packets that contain data, and forwards protocol negotiation and control packets to a separate controlling entity (e.g., a... |
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ng_pppoe(4) -- RFC 2516 PPPOE protocol netgraph node type
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The pppoe node type performs the PPPoE protocol. It is used in conjunction with the netgraph(4) extensions to the Ethernet framework to divert and inject Ethernet packets to and from a PPP agent (whic... |
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ng_pptpgre(4) -- PPTP GRE protocol netgraph node type
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The pptpgre node type performs Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) over IP for the PPTP protocol as specified by RFC 2637. This involves packet encapsulation, sequencing, acknowledgement, and an adapt... |
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ng_rfc1490(4) -- RFC 1490 netgraph node type
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The rfc1490 node type performs protocol encapsulation, de-encapsulation, and multiplexing according to RFC 1490 (which has since been updated by RFC 2427). This particular type of encapsulation is oft... |
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ng_socket(4) -- netgraph socket node type
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A socket node is both a BSD socket and a netgraph node. The ng_socket node type allows user-mode processes to participate in the kernel netgraph(4) networking subsystem using the BSD socket interface.... |
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ng_split(4) -- netgraph node to separate incoming and outgoing flows
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The split node type is used to split a bidirectional stream of packets into two separate unidirectional streams of packets. |
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ng_sscfu(4) -- netgraph SSCF at the UNI node type
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ng_sscop(4) -- netgraph SSCOP node type
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ng_tee(4) -- netgraph ``tee'' node type
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The tee node type has a purpose similar to the tee(1) command. Tee nodes are useful for debugging or ``snooping'' on a connection between two netgraph nodes. Tee nodes have four hooks, right, left, ... |
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ng_tty(4) -- netgraph node type that is also a line discipline
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The tty node type is both a netgraph node type and a line discipline. A new node is created when the corresponding line discipline, NETGRAPHDISC, is registered on a tty device (see tty(4)). The node h... |
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ng_ubt(4) -- Netgraph node type that is also a driver for Bluetooth USB devices
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The ubt node type is both a persistent Netgraph node type and a driver for Bluetooth USB devices. It implements a Bluetooth USB transport layer as per chapter H2 of the Bluetooth Specification Book v1... |
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ng_UI(4) -- UI netgraph node type
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The UI node type has two hooks, upstream and downstream. Packets received on downstream must have 0x03 (indicating unnumbered information) as their first byte; if not the packet is dropped. This byte ... |
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ng_uni(4) -- netgraph UNI node type
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ng_vjc(4) -- Van Jacobson compression netgraph node type
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The vjc node type performs Van Jacobson compression, which is used over PPP, SLIP, and other point-to-point IP connections to compress TCP packet headers. The ip hook represents the uncompressed side ... |
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nmdm(4) -- nullmodem terminal driver
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The nmdm driver provides support for a device-pair termed a null modem pair. A null modem pair is a pair of character devices. Each device provides to a process an interface identical to that describe... |
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i386/npx(4) -- Numeric Processing Extension coprocessor
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The npx driver enables the use of the system's Numeric Processing Extension coprocessor. Numeric processing extensions are present in systems with 486DX CPUs and in systems with 387 or 487SX coproces... |
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nsp(4) -- Workbit Ninja SCSI-3 based PC-Card SCSI host adapter driver
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The nsp driver provides access to the SCSI bus connected to a PC-Card SCSI host adapter based on a Ninja SCSI-3 controller by Workbit. The following adapters are known to work: +o Alpha-Data AD-PCS201... |
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null(4) -- the null device
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The null device accepts and reads data as any ordinary (and willing) file - but throws it away. The length of the null device is always zero. |
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ohci(4) -- OHCI USB Host Controller driver
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The ohci driver provides support for OHCI-type PCI based USB controllers. This includes AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) AMD-756 OPTi 82C861 (FireLink) NEC uPD 9210 CMD Tech 670 (USB0670) CMD Tech 673 (USB0... |
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oldcard(4) -- PC Card bridge driver
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The pcic driver controls the PC Card subsystem. The pcic driver supports most ExCA devices attached to either ISA or PCI bus. The pcic driver does not support the so-called TCIC controllers made by Da... |
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opie(4) -- One-time Passwords In Everything
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OPIE is a package derived from the Bellcore S/Key Version 1 distribution that helps to secure a system against replay attacks (see below). It does so using a secure hash function and a challenge/respo... |
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orm(4) -- ISA I/O space option ROM(s) driver
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The driver scans at boot time the ISA I/O memory space for option ROM(s) and claims them. Other drivers are thus precluded from using ISA I/O memory that is on top of an option ROM. |
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i386/pae(4) -- 0PAE
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The PAE option provides support for the physical address extensions capability of the Intel Pentium Pro and above CPUs, and allows for up to 64 gigabytes of memory to be used in systems capable of sup... |
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i386/PAE(4) -- 0PAE
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The PAE option provides support for the physical address extensions capability of the Intel Pentium Pro and above CPUs, and allows for up to 64 gigabytes of memory to be used in systems capable of sup... |
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pass(4) -- CAM application passthrough driver
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The pass driver provides a way for userland applications to issue CAM CCBs to the kernel. Since the pass driver allows direct access to the CAM subsystem, system administrators should exercise caution... |
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patm(4) -- Device driver for IDT77252 based ATM interfaces (ProSum and IDT)
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The patm device driver supports ATM cards based on the IDT77252 chip. It has been tested with ProSum's ProATM-155 cards and with IDT's evaluation boards. The driver interfaces with the natm(4) frame... |
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pccard(4) -- PC Card bus driver
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The pccard driver implements the PC Card bus. The pccard driver supports all PC Card bridges in the system. |
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pccbb(4) -- cardbus bridge driver
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The pccbb driver implements the Yenta specification for CardBus bridges. The following PCI cardbus and pcmcia bridges are supported: Cirrus Logic PD6832 Cirrus Logic PD6833 Cirrus Logic PD6834 O2micro... |
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i386/pcf(4) -- Philips I2C bus controller
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The pcf driver provides support to the Philips PCF8584 I2C controller for the iicbus(4) system. The PCF8584 is an integrated circuit designed in CMOS technology which serves as an interface between mo... |
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pci(4) -- generic PCI driver
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The pci driver provides a way for userland programs to read and write PCI configuration registers. It also provides a way for userland programs to get a list of all PCI devices, or all PCI devices tha... |
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pcic(4) -- PC Card bridge driver
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The pcic driver provides support for older ISA and non-Yenta PCI PC Card bridges. The pcic driver supports most ExCA devices attached to the ISA bus or PCI devices that do not conform to the Yenta spe... |
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pcm(4) -- FreeBSD PCM audio device infrastructure
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The pcm driver provides support for PCM audio play and capture. This driver also supports various PCI, WSS/MSS compatible, ISA sound cards, and AC97 mixer. Once the pcm driver attaches, supported devi... |
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pcn(4) -- AMD PCnet/PCI fast ethernet device driver
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The pcn driver provides support for PCI ethernet adapters and embedded controllers based on the AMD PCnet/FAST, PCnet/FAST+, PCnet/FAST III, PCnet/PRO and PCnet/Home ethernet controller chips. The PCn... |
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pcvt(4) -- VT220 virtual screen system console
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Overview The pcvt driver provides a virtual screen handling system. Probably most important is an emulation of a wide range of DEC VT-220 functionality. See Features for a detailed description. The pc... |
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i386/perfmon(4) -- CPU performance-monitoring interface
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The perfmon driver provides access to the internal performance-monitoring capabilities of the Intel Pentium and Pentium Pro CPUs. These processors implement two internal counters which can be configur... |
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pim(4) -- Protocol Independent Multicast
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PIM is the common name for two multicast routing protocols: Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) and Protocol Independent Multicast - Dense Mode (PIM-DM). PIM-SM is a multicast routin... |
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plip(4) -- printer port Internet Protocol driver
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The lp driver allows a PC parallel printer port to be used as a point-topoint network interface between two similarly configured systems. Data is transferred 4 bits at a time, using the printer status... |
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i386/pnp(4) -- support for ``Plug and Play'' (PnP) ISA devices
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The pnp driver enumerates ISA devices which support ``Plug and Play ISA Specification'' in the system. It assigns ISA bus resources (interrupt line, DMA channel, I/O ports, and memory region) to eac... |
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i386/pnpbios(4) -- support for embedded devices on the motherboard
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The pnpbios driver enumerates embedded ISA devices on the motherboard whose BIOS supports ``Plug and Play BIOS Specification''. It assigns ISA bus resources (interrupt line, DMA channel, I/O ports, ... |
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polling(4) -- device polling support
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``Device polling'' (polling for brevity) refers to a technique to handle devices that does not rely on the latter to generate interrupts when they need attention, but rather lets the CPU poll device... |
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ppbus(4) -- Parallel Port Bus system
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The ppbus system provides a uniform, modular and architecture-independent system for the implementation of drivers to control various parallel devices, and to utilize different parallel port chipsets. |
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ppc(4) -- Parallel Port Chipset driver
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The ppc driver provides low level support to various parallel port chipsets for the ppbus(4) system. During the probe phase, ppc detects parallel port chipsets and initializes private data according t... |
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ppi(4) -- user-space interface to ppbus parallel 'geek' port
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The ppi driver provides a convenient means for user applications to manipulate the state of the parallel port, enabling easy low-speed I/O operations without the security problems inherent with the us... |
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ppp(4) -- point to point protocol network interface
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The ppp interface allows serial lines to be used as network interfaces using the point-to-point protocol. The ppp interface can use various types of compression and has many features over the sl(4) pr... |
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psm(4) -- PS/2 mouse style pointing device driver
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The psm driver provides support for the PS/2 mouse style pointing device. Currently there can be only one psm device node in the system. As the PS/2 mouse port is located at the auxiliary port of the ... |
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pst(4) -- device driver for Promise Supertrak SX6000
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This driver is for the Promise Supertrak SX6000 ATA hardware RAID controller. It supports (in hardware) RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5 and JBOD on up to 6 ATA disk drives, including automatic rebuild and... |
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pt(4) -- SCSI processor type driver
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The pt driver provides support for a SCSI processor type device. These are usually scanners and other devices using the SCSI link as a communication interface with device specific commands embedded in... |
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pty(4) -- pseudo terminal driver
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The pty driver provides support for a device-pair termed a pseudo terminal. A pseudo terminal is a pair of character devices, a master device and a slave device. The slave device provides to a process... |
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puc(4) -- PCI ``Universal'' Communications driver
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This driver acts as a shim to connect PCI serial and parallel ports to the sio(4) and ppc(4) driver. The list of supported devices is in sys/dev/puc/pucdata.c. Support for new cards should be added th... |
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raid(4) -- RAIDframe disk driver
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The raid driver provides RAID 0, 1, 4, and 5 (and more!) capabilities to FreeBSD. This document assumes that the reader has at least some familiarity with RAID and RAID concepts. The reader is also as... |
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random(4) -- the entropy device
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The random device accepts and reads data as any ordinary (and willing) file, but throws away any data written to it, and returns an endless supply of random bytes when read. The only purpose of writin... |
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i386/ray(4) -- Raytheon Raylink/Webgear Aviator PCCard driver
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The ray driver provides support for Raytheon Raylink adapters (commonly available as Webgear Aviator, Webgear Aviator Pro and Raylink PC Card devices.) The core of the Raylink cards is a frequency hop... |
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i386/rdp(4) -- Ethernet driver for RealTek RTL 8002 pocket ethernet
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The rdp device driver supports RealTek RTL 8002-based pocket ethernet adapters, connected to a standard parallel port. These adapters seem to belong to the cheaper choices among pocket ethernet adapte... |
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re(4) -- RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S PCI ethernet adapter driver
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The re driver provides support for various NICs based on the RealTek RTL8139C+, RTL8169, RTL8169S and RTL8110S PCI ethernet controllers, including the following: +o Alloy Computer Products EtherGOLD 1... |
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rl(4) -- RealTek 8129/8139 Fast Ethernet device driver
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The rl driver provides support for PCI Ethernet adapters and embedded controllers based on the RealTek 8129 and 8139 Fast Ethernet controller chips, including the following: +o Accton ``Cheetah'' EN... |
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rndtest(4) -- FIPS 140-2 random number generator test monitor
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The rndtest driver ``hooks up'' to hardware crypto devices to monitor the entropy data passed to the random(4) subsystem. This data is periodically tested for FIPS 140-2 compliance and statistics ar... |
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route(4) -- kernel packet forwarding database
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FreeBSD provides some packet routing facilities. The kernel maintains a routing information database, which is used in selecting the appropriate network interface when transmitting packets. A user pro... |
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rp(4) -- driver for Comtrol RocketPort Intelligent Serial Port Cards
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This driver provides a kernel device driver for the RocketPort and RocketPort RA serial boards. These boards provide 8, 16, or 32 highspeed serial ports while requiring only 68 bytes of I/O space for ... |
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rue(4) -- RealTek RTL8150 USB To Fast Ethernet controller driver
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The rue driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the RealTek RTL8150 USB to Fast Ethernet controller chip. This includes the Melco Inc. LUA-KTX, the GREEN HOUSE GH-USB100B, and the B... |
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sa(4) -- SCSI Sequential Access device driver
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The sa driver provides support for all SCSI devices of the sequential access class that are attached to the system through a supported SCSI Host Adapter. The sequential access class includes tape and ... |
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sab(4) -- Infineon SAB82532 (ESCC2) serial communications driver
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The sab is a Infineon (formerly Siemens) SAB82532 (ESCC2) serial interface chip used in PCI-based UltraSPARC Sun workstations. The ESCC2 provides two independent input/output channels per instance. Th... |
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safe(4) -- SafeNet crypto accelerator
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The safe driver supports cards containing any of the following chips: SafeNet 1141 The original chipset. Supports DES, Triple-DES, AES, MD5, and SHA-1 symmetric crypto operations, RNG, public key oper... |
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sbc(4) -- Creative Sound Blaster ISA and compatible bridge device driver
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The sbc bridge driver allows the generic audio drivers including pcm(4) to attach to the following ISA sound cards: +o Creative SB16, SB32, SB AWE64 (including Gold) and ViBRA16 +o Advance Asound 100,... |
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i386/sbni(4) -- Granch SBNI12 leased line modem driver
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The sbni driver provides support for leased line modems of following models: +o SBNI12-02, SBNI12D-02 +o SBNI12-04, SBNI12D-04 +o SBNI12-05, SBNI12D-05, ISA and PCI +o SBNI12-10, SBNI12D-10, ISA and P... |
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sbp(4) -- Serial Bus Protocol 2 (SBP-2) Mass Storage Devices driver
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The sbp driver provides support for SBP-2 devices that attach to the FireWire (IEEE 1394) port. It should work with SBP-2 devices which CAM layer supports, for example, HDD, CDROM drive and DVD drive.... |
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sbp_targ(4) -- Serial Bus Protocol 2 (SBP-2) Target Mode devices driver
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The sbp_targ driver provides support for SBP-2 target mode. This driver is supposed to work with cam(4), targ(4) and firewire(4). You also need to use scsi_target(8), which can be found in /usr/share/... |
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sbsh(4) -- Granch SBNI16 SHDSL modem device driver
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The sbsh driver provides support for an internal PCI modem SBNI16-SHDSL. A device is introduced to the OS as a common Ethernet-like network card which must be configured with ifconfig(8) (all standard... |
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sc(4) -- the console driver
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The syscons driver provides multiple virtual terminals. It resembles the SCO color console driver. The syscons driver is implemented on top of the keyboard driver (atkbd(4)) and the video card driver ... |
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scbus(4) -- CAM SCSI subsystem
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The CAM SCSI subsystem provides a uniform and modular system for the implementation of drivers to control various SCSI devices, and to utilize different SCSI host adapters through host adapter drivers... |
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i386/scd(4) -- Sony CDU31/33 CD-ROM driver
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The scd driver provides a data interface to the Sony CDU31 and CDU33A CDROM drives. The drive must be hooked to a Sony proprietary interface card or a compatible clone. |
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screen(4) -- pc display interface
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Access to the virtual consoles are obtained through the device files /dev/ttyv0 - /dev/ttyvb. Each of these files correspond to a separate virtual console. All virtual console devices can be open at o... |
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screensaver(4) -- splash screen / screen saver interface
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The splash pseudo device driver adds support for the splash screen and screen savers to the kernel. This driver is required if the splash bitmap image is to be loaded or any screen saver is to be used... |
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scsi(4) -- CAM SCSI subsystem
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The CAM SCSI subsystem provides a uniform and modular system for the implementation of drivers to control various SCSI devices, and to utilize different SCSI host adapters through host adapter drivers... |
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SCSI(4) -- CAM SCSI subsystem
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The CAM SCSI subsystem provides a uniform and modular system for the implementation of drivers to control various SCSI devices, and to utilize different SCSI host adapters through host adapter drivers... |
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sd(4) -- SCSI disk driver
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The sd driver has been replaced by the da(4) driver. |
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sem(4) -- POSIX semaphores
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The sem facility provides system calls used by the standard C library (libc) to implement POSIX semaphores. It is available both as a kernel option for static inclusion and as a dynamic kernel module. |
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ses(4) -- SCSI Environmental Services driver
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The ses driver provides support for all SCSI devices of the environmental services class that are attached to the system through a supported SCSI Host Adapter, as well as emulated support for SAF-TE (... |
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sf(4) -- Adaptec AIC-6915 "Starfire" PCI fast ethernet adapter driver
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The sf driver provides support for Adaptec Duralink fast ethernet adapters based on the Adaptec AIC-6915 "Starfire" chipset. This includes the following: +o ANA-62011 64-bit single port 10/100baseTX... |
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si(4) -- driver for Specialix International SI/XIO or SX intelligent serial card
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The Specialix SI/XIO and SX hardware makes up an 8 to 32 port RS-232 serial multiplexor. The system uses two components: A "Host adapter", which is plugged into an ISA, EISA or PCI slot and provides... |
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sio(4) -- fast interrupt driven asynchronous serial communications interface
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The sio driver provides support for NS8250-, NS16450-, NS16550 and NS16550A-based EIA RS-232C (CCITT V.24) communications interfaces. The NS8250 and NS16450 have single character buffers, the NS16550A... |
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sis(4) -- SiS 900, SiS 7016 and NS DP83815 Fast Ethernet device driver
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The sis driver provides support for PCI Ethernet adapters and embedded controllers based on the Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900 and SiS 7016 Fast Ethernet controller chips, including: +o @Nifty FNE... |
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sk(4) -- SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x PCI gigabit ethernet adapter driver
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The sk driver provides support for the SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x series PCI gigabit ethernet adapters, including the following: +o 3COM 3C940 single port, 1000baseT adapter +o Linksys EG1032 sing... |
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skey(4) -- One-time Passwords In Everything
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OPIE is a package derived from the Bellcore S/Key Version 1 distribution that helps to secure a system against replay attacks (see below). It does so using a secure hash function and a challenge/respo... |
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sl(4) -- slip network interface
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The sl interface allows serial lines to be used as network interfaces using the slip protocol. The sl interface can use Van Jacobson TCP header compression and ICMP filtering. This is arranged by usin... |
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i386/smapi(4) -- System Management Application Program Interface driver
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Many IBM Thinkpad laptops utilize a special software interface known as SMAPI (System Management Application Program Interface). This interface controls various aspects of the system including: +o Sys... |
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smb(4) -- SMB generic I/O device driver
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The smb character device driver provides generic i/o to any smbus(4) instance. In order to control SMB devices, use /dev/smb? with the following ioctls: Ioctl Description SMB_QUICK_WRITE QuickWrite co... |
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smbus(4) -- System Management Bus
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The smbus system provides a uniform, modular and architecture-independent system for the implementation of drivers to control various SMB devices and to utilize different SMB controllers (I2C, PIIX4, ... |
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smp(4) -- description of the FreeBSD Symmetric MultiProcessor kernel
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The SMP kernel implements symmetric multiprocessor support. |
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SMP(4) -- description of the FreeBSD Symmetric MultiProcessor kernel
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The SMP kernel implements symmetric multiprocessor support. |
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sn(4) -- Ethernet driver for SMC91Cxx based cards
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The sn device driver supports SMC9xxx based ISA and PCMCIA cards. |
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snd(4) -- FreeBSD PCM audio device infrastructure
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The pcm driver provides support for PCM audio play and capture. This driver also supports various PCI, WSS/MSS compatible, ISA sound cards, and AC97 mixer. Once the pcm driver attaches, supported devi... |
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snp(4) -- tty snoop interface
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/dev/snp? are snoop devices which allow users to attach to any tty and watch activities on it. The kernel must be compiled with device snp, or the snp module must be loaded, for these devices to be av... |
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i386/speaker(4) -- console speaker device driver
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The speaker device driver allows applications to control the PC console speaker on an IBM-PC--compatible machine running FreeBSD. Only one process may have this device open at any given time; open(2) ... |
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spic(4) -- Sony Programmable I/O Controller device driver
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The spic driver allows using moused(8) to drive the Sony Vaio Jogdial device found on several Sony Vaio models. It works by mapping the forward, backwards, up, and down inputs to ``l'', ``r'', ``u... |
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i386/spkr(4) -- console speaker device driver
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The speaker device driver allows applications to control the PC console speaker on an IBM-PC--compatible machine running FreeBSD. Only one process may have this device open at any given time; open(2) ... |
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splash(4) -- splash screen / screen saver interface
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The splash pseudo device driver adds support for the splash screen and screen savers to the kernel. This driver is required if the splash bitmap image is to be loaded or any screen saver is to be used... |
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sppp(4) -- point to point protocol network layer for synchronous lines
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The sppp network layer implements the state machine and the Link Control Protocol (LCP) of the point to point protocol (PPP) as described in RFC 1661. Note that this layer does not provide network int... |
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i386/sr(4) -- synchronous RISCom/N2 / WANic 400/405 device driver
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The sr driver supports the RISCom/N2 ISA cards and the WANic 400/405 PCI cards that is based on the HD64570 chip. If you have ISA cards, you need to specify the resources for them in /boot/device.hint... |
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st(4) -- SCSI tape driver
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The st driver has been replaced by the sa(4) driver. |
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stderr(4) -- file descriptor files
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The files /dev/fd/0 through /dev/fd/# refer to file descriptors which can be accessed through the file system. If the file descriptor is open and the mode the file is being opened with is a subset of ... |
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stdin(4) -- file descriptor files
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The files /dev/fd/0 through /dev/fd/# refer to file descriptors which can be accessed through the file system. If the file descriptor is open and the mode the file is being opened with is a subset of ... |
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stdout(4) -- file descriptor files
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The files /dev/fd/0 through /dev/fd/# refer to file descriptors which can be accessed through the file system. If the file descriptor is open and the mode the file is being opened with is a subset of ... |
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ste(4) -- Sundance Technologies ST201 fast ethernet device driver
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The ste driver provides support for PCI ethernet adapters and embedded controllers based on the Sundance Technologies ST201 PCI fast ethernet controller chip. This includes the D-Link DFE-550TX. The S... |
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stf(4) -- 6to4 tunnel interface
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The stf interface supports ``6to4'' IPv6 in IPv4 encapsulation. It can tunnel IPv6 traffic over IPv4, as specified in RFC3056. For ordinary nodes in 6to4 site, you do not need stf interface. The stf... |
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stg(4) -- driver for Future Domain based SCSI controllers
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The stg driver provides support for ISA, PCCARD and PCI controllers based on Future Domain SCSI controller chips including the TMC-16C30, 16C50 and 32C60. Supported controllers include: - Adaptec 2920... |
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i386/stl(4) -- drivers for Stallion Technologies multiport serial controllers
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This is a kernel driver for Stallion Technologies multiport serial boards. There are two drivers, each supporting a different class of boards. The stl driver supports the EasyIO and EasyConnection 8/3... |
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i386/stli(4) -- drivers for Stallion Technologies multiport serial controllers
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This is a kernel driver for Stallion Technologies multiport serial boards. There are two drivers, each supporting a different class of boards. The stl driver supports the EasyIO and EasyConnection 8/3... |
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i386/streams(4) -- System V STREAMS networking ABI support
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The streams module provides limited System V Release 4 STREAMS interprocess communication ABI (application binary interface) compatibility for userland applications. Internally, streams provides STREA... |
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i386/svr4(4) -- System V Release 4 ABI support
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The svr4 module provides limited System V Release 4 ABI (application binary interface) compatibility for userland applications. The module provides the following significant facilities: +o An image ac... |
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sym(4) -- NCR/Symbios/LSI Logic 53C8XX PCI SCSI host adapter driver
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This driver provides support for the following Symbios/LSI Logic PCI SCSI controllers: +o 53C810 +o 53C810A +o 53C815 +o 53C825 +o 53C825A +o 53C860 +o 53C875 +o 53C876 +o 53C895 +o 53C895A +o 53C896 ... |
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syncache(4) -- sysctl(8) MIBs for controlling TCP SYN caching
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The syncache sysctl(8) MIB is used to control the TCP SYN caching in the system, which is intended to handle SYN flood Denial of Service attacks. When a TCP SYN segment is received on a port correspon... |
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syncer(4) -- file system synchronizer kernel process
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The syncer kernel process helps protect the integrity of disk volumes by flushing volatile cached file system data to disk. The kernel places all vnode(9)'s in a number of queues. The syncer process ... |
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syncookies(4) -- sysctl(8) MIBs for controlling TCP SYN caching
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The syncache sysctl(8) MIB is used to control the TCP SYN caching in the system, which is intended to handle SYN flood Denial of Service attacks. When a TCP SYN segment is received on a port correspon... |
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syscons(4) -- the console driver
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The syscons driver provides multiple virtual terminals. It resembles the SCO color console driver. The syscons driver is implemented on top of the keyboard driver (atkbd(4)) and the video card driver ... |
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sysmouse(4) -- virtualized mouse driver
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The console driver, in conjunction with the mouse daemon moused(8), supplies mouse data to the user process in the standardized way via the sysmouse driver. This arrangement makes it possible for the ... |
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tap(4) -- Ethernet tunnel software network interface
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The tap interface is a software loopback mechanism that can be loosely described as the network interface analog of the pty(4), that is, tap does for network interfaces what the pty driver does for te... |
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targ(4) -- SCSI target emulator driver
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The targ driver provides an interface for usermode programs to emulate SCSI target devices. A sample program that emulates a disk drive (similar to da(4)) can be found in /usr/share/examples/scsi_targ... |
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tcp(4) -- Internet Transmission Control Protocol
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The TCP protocol provides reliable, flow-controlled, two-way transmission of data. It is a byte-stream protocol used to support the SOCK_STREAM abstraction. TCP uses the standard Internet address form... |
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tdfx(4) -- Voodoo Graphics and VoodooII Memory Access GLIDE device driver
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This driver creates an entry in /dev that allows programs (mostly GLIDE-based software) to access the device memory of the Voodoo Graphics and VoodooII 3D accelerators created by 3Dfx, Inc. This provi... |
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termios(4) -- general terminal line discipline
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This describes a general terminal line discipline that is supported on tty asynchronous communication ports. Opening a Terminal Device File [Toc] [Back] When a terminal file is opened, it normal... |
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ti(4) -- Alteon Networks Tigon I and Tigon II gigabit ethernet driver
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The ti driver provides support for PCI gigabit ethernet adapters based on the Alteon Networks Tigon gigabit ethernet controller chip. The Tigon contains an embedded R4000 CPU, gigabit MAC, dual DMA ch... |
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tl(4) -- Texas Instruments ThunderLAN ethernet device driver
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The tl driver provides support for PCI ethernet adapters based on the Texas Instruments ThunderLAN ethernet controller chip. This includes a large number of Compaq PCI-bus ethernet adapters as well as... |
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trm(4) -- Tekram TRM-S1040 ASIC based PCI SCSI host adapter driver
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The trm driver supports PCI SCSI host adapters based on the Tekram TRMS1040 SCSI ASIC. |
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ttcp(4) -- Transmission Control Protocol Extensions for Transactions
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T/TCP refers to a set of extensions to the TCP protocol (see tcp(4)) which permit hosts to reliably exchange a small amount of data in a twopacket exchange, thus eliminating the extra round-trip delay... |
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tty(4) -- general terminal interface
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This section describes the interface to the terminal drivers in the system. Terminal Special Files [Toc] [Back] Each hardware terminal port on the system usually has a terminal special device fi... |
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tun(4) -- tunnel software network interface
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The tun interface is a software loopback mechanism that can be loosely described as the network interface analog of the pty(4), that is, tun does for network interfaces what the pty(4) driver does for... |
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twe(4) -- 3ware Escalade ATA RAID adapter driver
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The twe driver provides support for the following series of ATA RAID controllers: +o Escalade 3W-5x00 +o Escalade 3W-6x00 +o Escalade 3W-7x00 +o Escalade 3W-8x00 These devices support 2, 4 or 8 ATA di... |
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i386/tx(4) -- SMC 83c17x Fast Ethernet device driver
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The tx driver provides support for the Ethernet adapters based on the SMC 83c17x (EPIC) chips. These are mostly SMC 9432 series cards. The tx driver supports the following media types (depending on ca... |
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txp(4) -- 3Com 3XP Typhoon/Sidewinder (3CR990) Ethernet interface
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The txp interface provides access to the 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s Ethernet networks via the 3Com Typhoon/Sidewinder chipset. This driver supports the following cards: +o 3Com 3CR990-TX-95 +o 3Com 3CR990-TX-... |
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uart(4) -- driver for Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) devices
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The uart device driver provides support for various classes of UARTs implementing the EIA RS-232C (CCITT V.24) serial communications interface. Each such interface is controlled by a seperate and inde... |
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uaudio(4) -- USB audio device driver
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The uaudio driver provides support for USB audio class devices. A USB audio device consists of a number of components: input terminals (e.g. USB digital input), output terminals (e.g. speakers), and a... |
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ubsa(4) -- USB support for Belkin serial adapters
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The ubsa driver provides support for USB-to-RS232 Bridge chip used by a variety of serial adapters from Belkin and other vendors. The device is accessed through the ucom(4) driver which makes it behav... |
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ubsec(4) -- Broadcom and BlueSteel uBsec 5x0x crypto accelerator
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The ubsec driver supports cards containing any of the following chips: Bluesteel 5501 The original chipset, no longer made. This extremely rare unit was not very fast, lacked a RNG, and had a number o... |
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ubtbcmfw(4) -- Firmware driver for Broadcom BCM2033 chip based Bluetooth USB devices
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The ubtbcmfw is a firmware driver for Broadcom BCM2033 chip based Bluetooth USB devices. It provides minimal access to the parts of the device required to download firmware. The ubtbcmfw driver create... |
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ucom(4) -- USB tty support
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The ucom driver attaches to USB modems, serial ports, and other devices that need to look like a tty. The ucom driver shows a behavior like a tty(4). This means that normal programs such as tip(1) or ... |
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udbp(4) -- USB Double Bulk Pipe driver
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The udbp driver provides support for host-to-host cables that contain at least two bulk pipes (one for each direction), for example the EzLink cable and the NetChip 1080 chip. It requires netgraph(4) ... |
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udp(4) -- Internet User Datagram Protocol
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UDP is a simple, unreliable datagram protocol which is used to support the SOCK_DGRAM abstraction for the Internet protocol family. UDP sockets are connectionless, and are normally used with the sendt... |
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ufm(4) -- USB driver for Cypress Semiconductor FM Radio
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The ufm driver provides support for the D-Link/GEMTEK FM tuner. The USB interface chip is the common Cypress 63001, and the tuner is a Philips TEA5757 radio chip that uses a serial interface to set th... |
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uftdi(4) -- USB support for serial adapters based on the FT8U100AX and FT8U232AM
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The uftdi driver provides support for various serial adapters based on the FTDI FT8U100AX and FT8U232AM chips. The device is accessed through the ucom(4) driver which makes it behave like a tty(4). |
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ugen(4) -- USB generic device support
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The ugen driver provides support for all USB devices that do not have a special driver. It supports access to all parts of the device, but not in a way that is as convenient as a special purpose drive... |
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uhci(4) -- UHCI USB Host Controller driver
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The uhci driver provides support for UHCI-type PCI based USB controllers. This includes Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) Intel 82371SB (PIIX3) VIA 83C572 or any other UHCI v1.1 compliant controller. |
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uhid(4) -- USB generic HID support
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The uhid driver provides support for all HID (Human Interface Device) interfaces in USB devices that do not have a special driver. The device handles the following ioctl(2) calls: USB_GET_REPORT_ID (i... |
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uhidev(4) -- USB Human Interface Device support
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The uhidev driver handles all Human Interface Devices. Each HID device can have several components, e.g., a keyboard and a mouse. These components use different report identifiers (a byte) to distingu... |
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ukbd(4) -- USB keyboard driver
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The ukbd driver provides support for keyboards that attach to the USB port. usb(4) and one of uhci(4) or ohci(4) must be configured in the kernel as well. |
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ulpt(4) -- USB printer support
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The ulpt driver provides support for USB printers that follow the printer bi- or uni-directional protocol. The bits in the minor number select various features of the driver. Minor Bit Function 64 Do ... |
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umass(4) -- USB Mass Storage Devices driver
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The umass driver provides support for Mass Storage devices that attach to the USB port. Supported are: Iomega USB Zip 100 drive Iomega USB Zip 250 drive Microtech International, Inc. USB-SCSI-HD 50 US... |
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umodem(4) -- USB modem support
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The umodem driver provides support for USB modems in the Communication Device Class using the Abstract Control Model. These modems are basically standard serial line modems, but they are accessed via ... |
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ums(4) -- USB mouse driver
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The ums driver provides support for mice that attach to the USB port. Supported are mice with any number of buttons and mice with a wheel. usb and one of uhci or ohci must be configured in the kernel ... |
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unix(4) -- UNIX-domain protocol family
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The UNIX-domain protocol family is a collection of protocols that provides local (on-machine) interprocess communication through the normal socket(2) mechanisms. The UNIX-domain family supports the SO... |
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uplcom(4) -- USB support for Prolific PL-2303 serial adapters driver
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The uplcom driver provides support for Prolific PL-2303 USB-to-RS232 Bridge chip. The device is accessed through the ucom(4) driver which makes it behave like a tty(4). |
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urio(4) -- USB driver for the Rio500 MP3 player
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The urio driver provides support for the Rio500 MP3 player from Diamond MultiMedia which attaches to the USB port. The urio device must be configured in the kernel, along with usb and one of the uhci ... |
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usb(4) -- Universal Serial Bus
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FreeBSD provides machine-independent bus support and drivers for USB devices. The usb driver has three layers: the controller, the bus, and the device layer. The controller attaches to a physical bus ... |
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uscanner(4) -- USB Scanners
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The uscanner driver provides support for scanners that attach to the USB port. For each scanner attached it will provide an entry like /dev/uscanner0 in /dev. See the SANE home page for the exact conf... |
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utopia(4) -- Driver module for ATM PHY chips
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This module is used by all ATM drivers for cards that use PMC-Sierra S/Uni and IDT77105/IDT77155 chips to provide uniform functionality. The module implements status monitoring in either interrupt or ... |
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uvisor(4) -- USB support for the Handspring Visor, a Palmpilot compatible PDA
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The uvisor driver provides support for the Handspring Visor, a Palmpilot compatible PDA. The device is accessed through the ucom(4) driver which makes it behave like a tty(4). The device has several p... |
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uvscom(4) -- USB support for SUNTAC Slipper U VS-10U serial adapters driver
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The uvscom driver provides support for SUNTAC Slipper U VS-10U. Slipper U is a PC card to USB converter for data communication card adapter. It supports DDI Pocket's Air H" C@rd, C@rd H" 64, NTT's... |
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vga(4) -- generic video card interface
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The vga driver is a generic video card driver which provides access to video cards. This driver is required for the console driver syscons(4). The console driver will call the vga driver to manipulate... |
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i386/viapm(4) -- VIA chipsets Power Management controller driver
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This driver provides access to the VIA chipset Power Management Unit family. They are VT82C586B, VT82C596A, VT82C596B, VT82C686A and VT8233. The embedded controller of the VIA chipset may give you acc... |
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vinum(4) -- Logical Volume Manager
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vinum is a logical volume manager inspired by, but not derived from, the Veritas Volume Manager. It provides the following features: +o It provides device-independent logical disks, called volumes. Vo... |
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vlan(4) -- IEEE 802.1Q VLAN network interface
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The vlan driver demultiplexes frames tagged according to the IEEE 802.1Q standard into logical vlan network interfaces, which allows routing/bridging between multiple VLANs through a single switch tru... |
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vn(4) -- memory disk
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The md driver provides support for four kinds of memory backed virtual disks: malloc Backing store is allocated using malloc(9). Only one mallocbucket is used, which means that all md devices with mal... |
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i386/vpd(4) -- Vital Product Data kernel interface
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IBM ThinkPad notebooks (and most IBM desktop PCs) have a 48-byte Vital Product Data (VPD) structure located in the BIOS Shadow RAM. The VPD provides machine type and model information, the build ID (t... |
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vpo(4) -- parallel to SCSI interface driver
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The primary purpose of the vpo driver is to provide access to the Adaptec AIC-7110 SCSI controller built in the Iomega ZIP drive. But it should also work with the Iomega Jaz Traveller parallel to SCSI... |
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vr(4) -- VIA Technologies Rhine I/II/III ethernet device driver
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The vr driver provides support for PCI ethernet adapters and embedded controllers based on the VIA Technologies VT3043 Rhine I, VT86C100A Rhine II, and VT6105/VT6105M Rhine III fast ethernet controlle... |
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vt(4) -- VT220 virtual screen system console
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Overview The pcvt driver provides a virtual screen handling system. Probably most important is an emulation of a wide range of DEC VT-220 functionality. See Features for a detailed description. The pc... |
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i386/vx(4) -- 3Com EtherLink III / Fast EtherLink III (3c59x) Ethernet driver
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The vx driver provides support for the 3Com ``Vortex'' chipset. The following Ethernet adapters are supported: +o 3Com 3c590 EtherLink III PCI +o 3Com 3c592 EtherLink III EISA +o 3Com 3c595 Fast Eth... |
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watchdog(4) -- Software watchdog
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watchdog is a set of checks and routines which allow the implementation of a software watchdog solution. The user interface for watchdog is implemented via a trio of sysctl OIDs. When debug.watchdog.e... |
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wb(4) -- Winbond W89C840F fast ethernet device driver
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The wb driver provides support for PCI ethernet adapters and embedded controllers based on the Winbond W89C840F fast ethernet controller chip. This includes the Trendware TE100-PCIE and various other ... |
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i386/wd(4) -- generic WD100x/IDE disk controller driver
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This driver provides access to disks connected to controllers that emulate the Western Digital WD100x series. This range of controllers includes WD1003 type ST412 controllers, WD1007 ESDI controllers ... |
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i386/wdc(4) -- generic WD100x/IDE disk controller driver
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This driver provides access to disks connected to controllers that emulate the Western Digital WD100x series. This range of controllers includes WD1003 type ST412 controllers, WD1007 ESDI controllers ... |
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wi(4) -- Lucent Hermes, Intersil PRISM and Spectrum24 IEEE 802.11 driver
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The wi driver provides support for wireless network adapters based around the Lucent Hermes, Intersil PRISM-II, Intersil PRISM-2.5, Intersil Prism-3, and Symbol Spectrum24 chipsets. All five chipsets ... |
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witness(4) -- lock validation facility
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The witness module keeps track of the locks acquired and released by each thread. It also keeps track of the order in which locks are acquired with respect to each other. Each time a lock is acquired,... |
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i386/wl(4) -- T1 speed ISA/radio lan card
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The wl driver controls a radio lan card system made originally by NCR, then ATT, now Lucent. The system is spread-spectrum radio at around 915 MHz (or 2.4 GHz). With the supplied omni-directional ante... |
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wlan(4) -- generic 802.11 link-layer support
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The wlan device provides generic code to support 802.11 drivers, including host AP mode. Currently it is required for the wi(4), an(4) and ath(4) drivers but will eventually be required by all 802.11 ... |
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worm(4) -- write-once (CD-R) disk driver
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The worm driver was provided under FreeBSD releases prior to FreeBSD 3.0. The FreeBSD SCSI layer was replaced for FreeBSD 3.0 by a CAM-compliant SCSI layer. The new SCSI layer doesn't include a worm ... |
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i386/wt(4) -- Archive/Wangtek cartridge tape driver
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The wt driver provides support for the following Archive and Wangtek boards: QIC-02 QIC-36 |
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xe(4) -- Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet device driver
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The xe driver supports PCMCIA Ethernet adapters based on Xircom CE2- and CE3-class hardware. This includes devices made by Xircom along with various OEM manufacturers. The following cards are supporte... |
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xl(4) -- 3Com Etherlink XL and Fast Etherlink XL ethernet device driver
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The xl driver provides support for PCI ethernet adapters and embedded controllers based on the 3Com "boomerang," "cyclone," "hurricane" and "tornado" bus-master Etherlink XL chips. This includ... |
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xpt(4) -- CAM transport layer interface
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The xpt driver provides a way for userland applications to issue certain CAM CCBs to the kernel. Since the xpt driver allows direct access to the CAM subsystem, system administrators should exercise c... |
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zero(4) -- the zero device
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The zero device accepts and reads data as any ordinary (and willing) file, but throws away any data written to it, and returns an endless supply of null bytes when read. |
