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18.Dd October 26, 2013
19.Dt AXEN 4
20.Os
21.Sh NAME
22.Nm axen
23.Nd ASIX Electronics AX88178a/AX88179 10/100/Gigabit USB Ethernet device
24.Sh SYNOPSIS
25.Cd "axen*   at uhub? port ?"
26.Cd "rgephy* at mii?"
27.Sh DESCRIPTION
28The
29.Nm
30driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX
31Electronics AX88178a and AX88779 USB 2.0 chipsets
32(potentially the AX88779 supports USB 3.0, but there is currently no xhci support in
33.Nx ) ,
34including the following:
35.Pp
36.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
37.It Kurotoshiko GbE-USB3.0
38.It Logitec LAN-GTJU3
39.It Shanghai Donya DN-84327
40.El
41.Pp
42The
43.Nm
44driver supports the following media types:
45.Bl -tag -width "autoselect"
46.It autoselect
47Enable autoselection of the media type and options (this is the default).
48The user can manually override the autoselected mode by adding media
49options to the appropriate
50.Xr ifconfig.if 5
51file.
52.It 10baseT
53Set 10Mbps operation.
54.It 100baseTX
55Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
56.It 1000baseT
57Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
58.El
59.Pp
60For more information on configuring this device, see
61.Xr ifconfig 8 .
62.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
63.Bl -diag
64.It "axen%d: watchdog timeout"
65A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was
66issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the transmission
67before a timeout expired.
68.El
69.Sh SEE ALSO
70.Xr arp 4 ,
71.Xr mii 4 ,
72.Xr netintro 4 ,
73.Xr rgephy 4 ,
74.Xr usb 4 ,
75.Xr ifconfig.if 5 ,
76.Xr ifconfig 8
77.Sh HISTORY
78The
79.Nm
80device driver first appeared in
81.Ox 5.4
82and in
83.Nx 7.0 .
84.Sh AUTHORS
85.An -nosplit
86The
87.Nm
88driver was written by
89.An Yojiro UO Aq Mt yuo@nui.org
90for
91.Ox
92and ported to
93.Nx
94by
95.An NONAKA Kimihiro Aq Mt nonaka@NetBSD.org .
96