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diff --git a/share/man/man4/aue.4 b/share/man/man4/aue.4 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..fdb5fb5e4429 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/aue.4 @@ -0,0 +1,207 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999 +.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@ee.columbia.edu>. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by Bill Paul. +.\" 4. 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IN NO EVENT SHALL Bill Paul OR THE VOICES IN HIS HEAD +.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR +.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF +.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS +.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN +.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) +.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF +.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd October 7, 2006 +.Dt AUE 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm aue +.Nd ADMtek AN986 Pegasus USB Ethernet driver +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following lines in your +kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device uhci" +.Cd "device ohci" +.Cd "device usb" +.Cd "device miibus" +.Cd "device aue" +.Ed +.Pp +Alternatively, to load the driver as a +module at boot time, place the following line in +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +if_aue_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the ADMtek +AN986 Pegasus chipset. +.Pp +The LinkSys USB10T adapters that contain the AN986 Pegasus chipset +will operate at 100Base-TX and full-duplex. +.Pp +The Pegasus contains a 10/100 +Ethernet MAC with MII interface and is designed to work with both +Ethernet and HomePNA transceivers. +Although designed to interface with +100Mbps peripherals, the existing USB standard specifies a maximum +transfer speed of 12Mbps. +Users should therefore not expect to actually +achieve 100Mbps speeds with these devices. +.Pp +The Pegasus supports a 64-bit multicast hash table, single perfect +filter entry for the station address and promiscuous mode. +Packets are +received and transmitted over separate USB bulk transfer endpoints. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media types: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +.It autoselect +Enable autoselection of the media type and options. +The user can manually override +the autoselected mode by adding media options to the +.Pa /etc/rc.conf +file. +.It 10baseT/UTP +Set 10Mbps operation. +The +.Ar mediaopt +option can also be used to enable +.Ar full-duplex +operation. +Not specifying +.Ar full duplex +implies +.Ar half-duplex +mode. +.It 100baseTX +Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. +The +.Ar mediaopt +option can also be used to enable +.Ar full-duplex +operation. +Not specifying +.Ar full duplex +implies +.Ar half-duplex +mode. +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media options: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +.It full-duplex +Force full duplex operation. +The interface will operate in +half duplex mode if this media option is not specified. +.El +.Pp +For more information on configuring this device, see +.Xr ifconfig 8 . +.Sh HARDWARE +Adapters supported by the +.Nm +driver include: +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +Abocom UFE1000, DSB650TX_NA +.It +Accton USB320-EC, SpeedStream +.It +ADMtek AN986, AN8511 +.It +Billionton USB100, USB100LP, USB100EL, USBE100 +.It +Corega Ether FEther USB-T, FEther USB-TX, FEther USB-TXS +.It +D-Link DSB-650, DSB-650TX, DSB-650TX-PNA +.It +Elecom LD-USBL/TX +.It +Elsa Microlink USB2Ethernet +.It +HP hn210e +.It +I-O Data USB ETTX +.It +Kingston KNU101TX +.It +LinkSys USB10T adapters that contain the AN986 Pegasus chipset, +USB10TA, USB10TX, USB100TX, USB100H1 +.It +MELCO LUA-TX, LUA2-TX +.It +Netgear FA101 +.It +Planex UE-200TX +.It +Sandberg USB to Network Link (model number 133-06) +.It +Siemens Speedstream +.It +SmartBridges smartNIC +.It +SMC 2202USB +.It +SOHOware NUB100 +.El +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "aue%d: watchdog timeout" +A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was +issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the transmission +before a timeout expired. +.It "aue%d: no memory for rx list" +The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr altq 4 , +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr miibus 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr ng_ether 4 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Rs +.%T ADMtek AN986 data sheet +.%O http://www.admtek.com.tw +.Re +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +device driver first appeared in +.Fx 4.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@ee.columbia.edu . |