Index
Numbers and Special
Characters
10Base2 transceiver
ensuring that it is off
,8–5
A
allocating the ether_driver data
structure
,5–7
attach interface,6–1
registering adapters,6–9
setting network attributes,6–9
autoconfiguration
attach interface
,6–1
probe interface,5–1
autoconfiguration support
section
,1–10, 5–1
implementing,6–1
autosense thread
context information
,3–9
autosensethread
starting
,8–11
B
base register,3–6
baud rate
setting
,6–8
broadcast flag,3–8
buffer
transmitting
,9–6
bus-specific information,3–7
initializing,5–8
C
carrier
checking for transmits
,5–23
cfg_subsys_attr_t data structure,
4–2
command port register
definitions
,2–2
common information
el_softc data structure
,3–2
computing the CSR addresses
,5–8
configuration,14–1
configure interface
,4–1
configure section,1–10
controller data structure
allocating multiple
,5–16
array declaration,1–6
saving pointer,5–16
counter
reading
,12–8
updating,9–7
CSR pointer information
,3–7
D
data collision
dealing with excessive
,13–11
data structure
cfg_subsys_attr_t
,4–2
controller,5–16
driver,1–7
el_softc,1–6, 5–6, 5–8, 5–16
simple lock,3–10
softc,3–1
w3_eeprom,2–13, 3–10
data transfer
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