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34.Dd December 25, 1999
35.Dt AUE 4
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm aue
39.Nd ADMtek AN986 Pegasus USB Ethernet driver
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Cd "aue*   at uhub?"
42.Cd "ukphy* at mii?"
43.Sh HARDWARE
44The
45.Nm
46driver supports the following adapters:
47.Pp
48.Bl -tag -width -offset indent -compact
49.It Tn Billionton Systems USB100
50.It Tn Corega FEther USB-TX
51.It Tn D-Link DSB-650TX
52.It Tn LinkSys USB100TX
53.It Tn Melco Inc. LU-ATX
54.It Tn SMC 2202USB
55.El
56.Sh DESCRIPTION
57The
58.Nm
59driver provides support for USB ethernet adapters based on the ADMtek
60AN986 Pegasus chipset.
61.Pp
62The Pegasus contains a 10/100
63ethernet MAC with MII interface and is designed to work with both
64ethernet and HomePNA transceivers. Although designed to interface with
65100Mbps peripherals, the existing USB standard specifies a maximum
66transfer speed of 12Mbps. Users should therefore not expect to actually
67achieve 100Mbps speeds with these devices.
68.Pp
69The Pegasus supports a 64-bit multicast hash table, single perfect
70filter entry for the station address and promiscuous mode. Packets are
71received and transmitted over separate USB bulk transfer endpoints.
72.Pp
73The
74.Nm
75driver supports the following media types:
76.Pp
77.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
78.It autoselect
79Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
80The user can manually override
81the autoselected mode by adding media options to the
82.Pa /etc/rc.conf
83file.
84.It 10baseT/UTP
85Set 10Mbps operation. The
86.Ar mediaopt
87option can also be used to enable
88.Ar full-duplex
89operation. Not specifying
90.Ar full duplex
91implies
92.Ar half-duplex
93mode.
94.It 100baseTX
95Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation. The
96.Ar mediaopt
97option can also be used to enable
98.Ar full-duplex
99operation. Not specifying
100.Ar full duplex
101implies
102.Ar half-duplex
103mode.
104.El
105.Pp
106The
107.Nm
108driver supports the following media options:
109.Pp
110.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
111.It full-duplex
112Force full duplex operation. The interface will operate in
113half duplex mode if this media option is not specified.
114.El
115.Pp
116For more information on configuring this device, see
117.Xr ifconfig 8 .
118.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
119.Bl -diag
120.It "aue%d: watchdog timeout"
121A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was
122issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the transmission
123before a timeout expired.
124.It "aue%d: no memory for rx list"
125The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring.
126.El
127.Sh SEE ALSO
128.Xr arp 4 ,
129.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
130.Xr netintro 4 ,
131.Xr usb 4
132.Rs
133.%T ADMtek AN986 data sheet
134.%O http://www.admtek.com.tw
135.Re
136.Sh HISTORY
137The
138.Nm
139device driver first appeared in
140.Fx 4.0 ,
141and in
142.Nx 1.5 .
143.Sh AUTHORS
144The
145.Nm
146driver was written by
147.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@ee.columbia.edu .
148