1.\" $NetBSD: ale.4,v 1.5 2012/11/29 00:12:21 jdf Exp $ 2.\" $OpenBSD: ale.4,v 1.2 2009/02/25 03:15:50 deraadt Exp $ 3.\" 4.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kevin Lo <kevlo@openbsd.org> 5.\" 6.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any 7.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above 8.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. 9.\" 10.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES 11.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 12.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR 13.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES 14.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN 15.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF 16.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. 17.\" 18.Dd May 5, 2009 19.Dt ALE 4 20.Os 21.Sh NAME 22.Nm ale 23.Nd Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device 24.Sh SYNOPSIS 25.Cd "ale* at pci?" 26.Cd "atphy* at mii?" 27.Sh DESCRIPTION 28The 29.Nm 30driver provides support for Ethernet interfaces based on the 31Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Ethernet chipset, also known as 32the Attansic L1E. 33.Pp 34The 35.Nm 36driver supports IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload and VLAN 37tag insertion and stripping. 38.Pp 39The following 40.Ar media 41types are supported: 42.Pp 43.Bl -tag -width autoselect -compact 44.It Cm autoselect 45Enable autoselection of the media type and options. 46.It Cm 10baseT 47Set 10Mbps operation. 48.It Cm 100baseTX 49Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. 50.It Cm 1000baseT 51Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation. 52.El 53.Pp 54For more information on configuring this device, see 55.Xr ifconfig 8 . 56To view a list of media types and options supported by the card, try 57.Ic ifconfig Fl m Ao Ic device Ac . 58For example, 59.Ic ifconfig Fl m Ic ale0 . 60.Sh SEE ALSO 61.Xr arp 4 , 62.Xr atphy 4 , 63.Xr ifmedia 4 , 64.Xr intro 4 , 65.Xr netintro 4 , 66.Xr pci 4 , 67.Xr ifconfig 8 68.Sh HISTORY 69The 70.Nm 71device driver first appeared in 72.Ox 4.5 . 73It was then ported to 74.Nx 5.1 . 75.Sh AUTHORS 76.An -nosplit 77The 78.Nm 79driver was written by 80.An Pyun YongHyeon 81for 82.Fx 83and ported to 84.Ox 85by 86.An Kevin Lo 87.Aq kevlo@OpenBSD.org 88then ported to 89.Nx 90by 91.An Christoph Egger 92.Aq cegger@NetBSD.org 93and Kevin Lahey. 94