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Add device driver support for the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 ethernet controller. The driver has been tested with the LinkSys USB200M adapter. I know for a fact that there are other devices out there with this chip but don't have all the USB vendor/device IDs. Note: I'm not sure if this will force the driver to end up in the install kernel image or not. Special magic needs to be done to exclude it to keep the boot floppies from bloating again, someone please advise.
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.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000-2003
.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@windriver.com>. All rights reserved.
.\"
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Add a "Load module on start up" comment, similar to mac_*.4 pages[1]. Quote .Cd and .Nd text. Bump doc date. Requested by: some user through ru Supported by: ru, dwmalone, brueffer
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.Dd July 16, 2005
Add device driver support for the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 ethernet controller. The driver has been tested with the LinkSys USB200M adapter. I know for a fact that there are other devices out there with this chip but don't have all the USB vendor/device IDs. Note: I'm not sure if this will force the driver to end up in the install kernel image or not. Special magic needs to be done to exclude it to keep the boot floppies from bloating again, someone please advise.
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.Dt AXE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm axe
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.Nd "ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB Ethernet driver"
Add device driver support for the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 ethernet controller. The driver has been tested with the LinkSys USB200M adapter. I know for a fact that there are other devices out there with this chip but don't have all the USB vendor/device IDs. Note: I'm not sure if this will force the driver to end up in the install kernel image or not. Special magic needs to be done to exclude it to keep the boot floppies from bloating again, someone please advise.
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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To compile this driver into the kernel,
place the following lines in your
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kernel configuration file:
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.Bd -ragged -offset indent
Add device driver support for the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 ethernet controller. The driver has been tested with the LinkSys USB200M adapter. I know for a fact that there are other devices out there with this chip but don't have all the USB vendor/device IDs. Note: I'm not sure if this will force the driver to end up in the install kernel image or not. Special magic needs to be done to exclude it to keep the boot floppies from bloating again, someone please advise.
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.Cd "device ehci"
.Cd "device uhci"
.Cd "device ohci"
.Cd "device usb"
.Cd "device miibus"
.Cd "device axe"
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.Ed
.Pp
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Alternatively, to load the driver as a
module at boot time, place the following line in
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.Xr loader.conf 5 :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
if_axe_load="YES"
.Ed
Add device driver support for the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 ethernet controller. The driver has been tested with the LinkSys USB200M adapter. I know for a fact that there are other devices out there with this chip but don't have all the USB vendor/device IDs. Note: I'm not sure if this will force the driver to end up in the install kernel image or not. Special magic needs to be done to exclude it to keep the boot floppies from bloating again, someone please advise.
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
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driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX
Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 chipset.
Add device driver support for the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 ethernet controller. The driver has been tested with the LinkSys USB200M adapter. I know for a fact that there are other devices out there with this chip but don't have all the USB vendor/device IDs. Note: I'm not sure if this will force the driver to end up in the install kernel image or not. Special magic needs to be done to exclude it to keep the boot floppies from bloating again, someone please advise.
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.Pp
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The AX88172 is a USB 2.0 device which contains a 10/100
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Ethernet MAC with MII interface and is designed to work with both
Ethernet and HomePNA transceivers.
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The AX88172 will operate with
Spelling fixes.
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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
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maximum transfer speed of 12Mbps.
Add device driver support for the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 ethernet controller. The driver has been tested with the LinkSys USB200M adapter. I know for a fact that there are other devices out there with this chip but don't have all the USB vendor/device IDs. Note: I'm not sure if this will force the driver to end up in the install kernel image or not. Special magic needs to be done to exclude it to keep the boot floppies from bloating again, someone please advise.
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Users with USB 1.x controllers should therefore not expect to actually
achieve 100Mbps speeds with these devices.
.Pp
The AX88172 supports 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:
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.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP"
.It Cm autoselect
Add device driver support for the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 ethernet controller. The driver has been tested with the LinkSys USB200M adapter. I know for a fact that there are other devices out there with this chip but don't have all the USB vendor/device IDs. Note: I'm not sure if this will force the driver to end up in the install kernel image or not. Special magic needs to be done to exclude it to keep the boot floppies from bloating again, someone please advise.
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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.
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.It Cm 10baseT/UTP
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Set 10Mbps operation.
The
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.Cm mediaopt
Add device driver support for the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 ethernet controller. The driver has been tested with the LinkSys USB200M adapter. I know for a fact that there are other devices out there with this chip but don't have all the USB vendor/device IDs. Note: I'm not sure if this will force the driver to end up in the install kernel image or not. Special magic needs to be done to exclude it to keep the boot floppies from bloating again, someone please advise.
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option can also be used to enable
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.Cm full-duplex
Add device driver support for the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 ethernet controller. The driver has been tested with the LinkSys USB200M adapter. I know for a fact that there are other devices out there with this chip but don't have all the USB vendor/device IDs. Note: I'm not sure if this will force the driver to end up in the install kernel image or not. Special magic needs to be done to exclude it to keep the boot floppies from bloating again, someone please advise.
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operation.
Not specifying
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.Cm full-duplex
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implies
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.Cm half-duplex
Add device driver support for the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 ethernet controller. The driver has been tested with the LinkSys USB200M adapter. I know for a fact that there are other devices out there with this chip but don't have all the USB vendor/device IDs. Note: I'm not sure if this will force the driver to end up in the install kernel image or not. Special magic needs to be done to exclude it to keep the boot floppies from bloating again, someone please advise.
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mode.
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.It Cm 100baseTX
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Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
Add device driver support for the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 ethernet controller. The driver has been tested with the LinkSys USB200M adapter. I know for a fact that there are other devices out there with this chip but don't have all the USB vendor/device IDs. Note: I'm not sure if this will force the driver to end up in the install kernel image or not. Special magic needs to be done to exclude it to keep the boot floppies from bloating again, someone please advise.
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The
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.Cm mediaopt
Add device driver support for the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 ethernet controller. The driver has been tested with the LinkSys USB200M adapter. I know for a fact that there are other devices out there with this chip but don't have all the USB vendor/device IDs. Note: I'm not sure if this will force the driver to end up in the install kernel image or not. Special magic needs to be done to exclude it to keep the boot floppies from bloating again, someone please advise.
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option can also be used to enable
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.Cm full-duplex
Add device driver support for the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 ethernet controller. The driver has been tested with the LinkSys USB200M adapter. I know for a fact that there are other devices out there with this chip but don't have all the USB vendor/device IDs. Note: I'm not sure if this will force the driver to end up in the install kernel image or not. Special magic needs to be done to exclude it to keep the boot floppies from bloating again, someone please advise.
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operation.
Not specifying
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.Cm full-duplex
Add device driver support for the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 ethernet controller. The driver has been tested with the LinkSys USB200M adapter. I know for a fact that there are other devices out there with this chip but don't have all the USB vendor/device IDs. Note: I'm not sure if this will force the driver to end up in the install kernel image or not. Special magic needs to be done to exclude it to keep the boot floppies from bloating again, someone please advise.
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implies
Assorted mdoc(7) fixes. Approved by: re (blanket)
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.Cm half-duplex
Add device driver support for the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 ethernet controller. The driver has been tested with the LinkSys USB200M adapter. I know for a fact that there are other devices out there with this chip but don't have all the USB vendor/device IDs. Note: I'm not sure if this will force the driver to end up in the install kernel image or not. Special magic needs to be done to exclude it to keep the boot floppies from bloating again, someone please advise.
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mode.
.El
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver supports the following media options:
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.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP"
.It Cm full-duplex
Add device driver support for the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 ethernet controller. The driver has been tested with the LinkSys USB200M adapter. I know for a fact that there are other devices out there with this chip but don't have all the USB vendor/device IDs. Note: I'm not sure if this will force the driver to end up in the install kernel image or not. Special magic needs to be done to exclude it to keep the boot floppies from bloating again, someone please advise.
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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 .
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.Sh HARDWARE
The
.Nm
driver supports ASIX Electronics AX88172 based USB Ethernet
adapters including:
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
Buffalo (Melco Inc.) LUA-U2-KTX
.It
D-Link DUBE100
.It
LinkSys USB200M
.It
Netgear FA120
.It
Add Sitecom LN-029 to list of supported devices.
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Sitecom LN-029
.It
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System TALKS Inc.\& SGC-X2UL
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.El
Add device driver support for the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 ethernet controller. The driver has been tested with the LinkSys USB200M adapter. I know for a fact that there are other devices out there with this chip but don't have all the USB vendor/device IDs. Note: I'm not sure if this will force the driver to end up in the install kernel image or not. Special magic needs to be done to exclude it to keep the boot floppies from bloating again, someone please advise.
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.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 arp 4 ,
.Xr miibus 4 ,
.Xr netintro 4 ,
.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Rs
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.%T "ASIX AX88172 data sheet"
Add device driver support for the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 ethernet controller. The driver has been tested with the LinkSys USB200M adapter. I know for a fact that there are other devices out there with this chip but don't have all the USB vendor/device IDs. Note: I'm not sure if this will force the driver to end up in the install kernel image or not. Special magic needs to be done to exclude it to keep the boot floppies from bloating again, someone please advise.
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.%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 .
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