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updates for additional chip support

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Submitted by:	"J.R. Oldroyd" <jr@opal.com>
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@ -30,12 +30,12 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd June 6, 2007
.Dd January 20, 2008
.Dt AXE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm axe
.Nd "ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB Ethernet driver"
.Nd "ASIX Electronics AX88172/178/772 USB Ethernet driver"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel,
place the following lines in your
@ -59,19 +59,21 @@ if_axe_load="YES"
The
.Nm
driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX
Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 chipset.
Electronics AX88172, AX88178 and AX88772 USB 2.0 chipsets.
.Pp
The AX88172 is a USB 2.0 device which contains a 10/100
Ethernet MAC with MII interface and is designed to work with both
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 AX88172 will operate with
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
The AX88172 supports a 64-bit multicast hash table, single perfect
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.
@ -127,14 +129,31 @@ For more information on configuring this device, see
.Sh HARDWARE
The
.Nm
driver supports ASIX Electronics AX88172 based USB Ethernet
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
D-Link DUB-E100, revision A
Corega USB2_TX
.It
D-Link DUBE100
.It
Goodway GWUSB2E
.It
JVC MP_PRX1
.It
LinkSys USB200M
.It
@ -144,6 +163,24 @@ 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"
@ -161,7 +198,7 @@ The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring.
.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Rs
.%T "ASIX AX88172 data sheet"
.%T "ASIX AX88172 AX88178 and AX88772 data sheets"
.%O http://www.asix.com.tw
.Re
.Sh HISTORY