Fast Ethernet Interfaces
Sun supports four Fast Ethernet drivers for its range of SPARC platforms:
10/100 hme Fast Ethernet
10/100 qfe Quad Fast Ethernet
10/100 eri Fast Ethernet
10/100 dmfe Fast Ethernet
The following sections describe the details of these interfaces.
10/100 hme Fast Ethernet
The hme interface is available for Sbus systems and PCI bus systems. In both cases, they share the same device driver.
The interface at the lowest level provides an RJ-45 twisted-pair Ethernet physical layer that supports auto-negotiation. There are also motherboard implementations using hme that provide a MII connection. This allows an external transceiver to be attached and alternative physical layer interfaces like 100BASE-T4 or 100BASE-SX to be made available. ...
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