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17.Dd January 18, 2015
18.Dt ALC 4
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm alc
22.Nd Atheros AR813x/AR815x/AR816x/AR817x Ethernet device
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Cd "alc* at pci?"
25.Cd "atphy* at mii?"
26.Sh DESCRIPTION
27The
28.Nm
29driver provides support for Ethernet interfaces based on the
30Atheros AR813x/AR815x/AR816x/AR817x Gigabit/Fast Ethernet chipsets.
31.Pp
32The following
33.Ar media
34types are supported:
35.Pp
36.Bl -tag -width autoselect -compact
37.It Cm autoselect
38Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
39.It Cm 10baseT
40Set 10Mbps operation.
41.It Cm 100baseTX
42Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
43.It Cm 1000baseT
44Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
45.El
46.Pp
47For more information on configuring this device, see
48.Xr ifconfig 8 .
49.Sh SEE ALSO
50.Xr arp 4 ,
51.Xr atphy 4 ,
52.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
53.Xr intro 4 ,
54.Xr netintro 4 ,
55.Xr pci 4 ,
56.Xr ifconfig 8
57.Sh HISTORY
58The
59.Nm
60device driver was written by
61.An Pyun YongHyeon
62and first appeared in
63.Fx 8.0 .
64It was ported to
65.Ox 4.7
66by
67.An Kevin Lo
68and then ported to
69.Nx 6.0
70by
71.An Fire Crow .
72.An Leonardo Taccari
73ported the AR816x/AR817x support for
74.Nm
75from
76.Fx 11.0 .
77