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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