Functional Description; Network Link And Activity Indication - Broadcom 440X User Manual

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Introduction: Broadcom 440X 10/100
Integrated Controller User Guide

Functional Description

Features

Network Link and Activity Indication

Functional Description
The Broadcom 440X 10/100 Integrated Controller connects a PCI workstation to a 10/100-Mbps
Ethernet network. The BCM440X LAN on Motherboard device is a fully-integrated 10/100 Ethernet MAC/
PHY.
Features
The following lists the Broadcom 440X 10/100 Integrated Controller features for all supported
operating systems:
Combination 10/100 Ethernet
PCI 2.3 and LAN on Motherboard (LOM)
Meets PCI Power Management Interface Specification v1.1 for Advanced Power Management
Fully WHQL certified software drivers for Windows 2000 and Windows XP
Integrated MAC/PHY 10/100 PCI Ethernet
IEEE 802.3u compliant transmit and receive engines
Transmit and receive FIFOs (2 kB transmit and 4 kB receive)
Full-duplex and half-duplex operation
Internal 64-entry Content Addressable Memory (CAM) for perfect address filtering
MII management interface allows control of internal transceiver functions
Internal MAC and PHY loopbacks
Support for PXE 2.1 available (Windows 2000, Intel APITEST, DOS UNDI)
Network Link and Activity Indication
The state of the network link and activity is indicated by the two LEDs on the RJ-45 connector, as