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diff --git a/share/man/man4/axe.4 b/share/man/man4/axe.4 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..b33112692e28 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/axe.4 @@ -0,0 +1,213 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000-2003 +.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@windriver.com>. 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 January 20, 2008 +.Dt AXE 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm axe +.Nd "ASIX Electronics AX88172/178/772 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 ehci" +.Cd "device uhci" +.Cd "device ohci" +.Cd "device usb" +.Cd "device miibus" +.Cd "device axe" +.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_axe_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX +Electronics AX88172, AX88178 and AX88772 USB 2.0 chipsets. +.Pp +The AX88172 and AX88178 are USB 2.0 devices that contain a 10/100 +Ethernet MAC with MII interface and are designed to work with both +Ethernet and HomePNA transceivers. +The AX88772 will additionally support 10/100/1000 MACs. +.Pp +These devices will operate with +both USB 1.x and USB 2.0 controllers, however performance with 1.x +controllers will be limited since the USB 1.x standard specifies a +maximum transfer speed of 12Mbps. +Users with USB 1.x controllers should therefore not expect to actually +achieve 100Mbps speeds with these devices. +.Pp +All chipsets support a 64-bit multicast hash table, single perfect +filter entry for the station address, all-multicast mode and promiscuous mode. +Packets are +received and transmitted over separate USB bulk transfer endpoints. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media types: +.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP" +.It Cm 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 Cm 10baseT/UTP +Set 10Mbps operation. +The +.Cm mediaopt +option can also be used to enable +.Cm full-duplex +operation. +Not specifying +.Cm full-duplex +implies +.Cm half-duplex +mode. +.It Cm 100baseTX +Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. +The +.Cm mediaopt +option can also be used to enable +.Cm full-duplex +operation. +Not specifying +.Cm full-duplex +implies +.Cm half-duplex +mode. +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media options: +.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP" +.It Cm 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 +The +.Nm +driver supports ASIX Electronics AX88172/AX88178/AX88772 based USB Ethernet +adapters including: +.Pp +AX88172: +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +AboCom UF200 +.It +Acer Communications EP1427X2 +.It +ATen UC210T +.It +Billionton SnapPort +.It +Billionton USB2AR +.It +Buffalo (Melco Inc.) LUA-U2-KTX +.It +Corega USB2_TX +.It +D-Link DUBE100 +.It +Goodway GWUSB2E +.It +JVC MP_PRX1 +.It +LinkSys USB200M +.It +Netgear FA120 +.It +Sitecom LN-029 +.It +System TALKS Inc.\& SGC-X2UL +.El +.Pp +AX88178: +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +Belkin F5D5055 +.It +Planex Communications GU1000T +.It +Sitecom Europe LN-028 +.El +.Pp +AX88772: +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +Cisco-Linksys USB200Mv2 +.It +D-Link DUBE100B1 +.El +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "axe%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 "axe%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 "ASIX AX88172 AX88178 and AX88772 data sheets" +.%O http://www.asix.com.tw +.Re +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +device driver first appeared in +.Fx 5.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@windriver.com . |