NAME

axe — ASIX Electronics AX88172/AX88178/AX88772 10/100/Gigabit USB Ethernet device

SYNOPSIS

axe* at uhub?
XXphy* at mii?

HARDWARE

The axe driver supports the following adapters:

Apple USB Ethernet Adapter A1277

ATEN UC-210T

BAFO BF-320

Billionton Systems USB2AR

Buffalo(MELCO) LUA-U2-GT

Buffalo(MELCO) LUA-U2-KTX

Corega FEther USB2-TX

D-Link DUB-E100

Good Way GWUSB2E

Hawking UF200

Intellinet USB 2.0 to Ethernet (rev A)

IO-Data ETG-US2

JVC MP-PRX1

Konig CMP-NWUSB20

Level One USB-0200

Linksys USB200M

Linksys USB1000

Logitec LAN-GTJ/U2

Netgear FA120

Nintendo Wii USB Lan Ethernet Adapter RVL-015

OQO model 01+ Ethernet

Sitecom LN-029

SMC 2209USB/ETH

SnapPort USB 2.0 LAN Adapter

ST Lab USB 2.0 Fast Ethernet

Surecom EP-1427X-2

System TALKS SGC-X2UL

TRENDnet TU2-ET100

Z-TEK ZK-R01-2

DESCRIPTION

The axe driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX Electronics AX88172, AX88178, and AX88772 USB 2.0 chipsets.

The chip contains a 10/100 Ethernet MAC with MII interface and is designed to work with both Ethernet and HomePNA transceivers. The AX8172 and AX88772 contain 10/100 Ethernet MACs with MII interfaces. The AX8178 contains a 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet MAC with a GMII/MII interface. The chip also supports USB 2.0, thereby accommodating 100 Mb/s data rates.

The axe driver supports the following media types:

autoselect

Enable automatic selection of the media type and options.

10baseT/UTP

Set 10Mbps operation. The mediaopt option can also be used to enable full-duplex operation. Not specifying full duplex implies half-duplex mode.

100baseTX

Set 100Mbps (fast Ethernet) operation. The mediaopt option can also be used to enable full-duplex operation. Not specifying full duplex implies half-duplex mode.

1000baseT

Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation (AX88178 only).

The axe driver supports the following media options:

full-duplex

Force full duplex operation. The interface will operate in half duplex mode if this media option is not specified.

For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).

SEE ALSO

arp(4), ifmedia(4), netintro(4), usb(4), ifconfig(8)

ASIX AX88172 data sheet, http://www.asix.com.tw.

HISTORY

The axe device driver first appeared in FreeBSD and was ported to NetBSD 3.0. It replaces the NetBSD uax driver.