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18.Dd April 21, 2015
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 Buffalo LUA4-U3-AGT
38.It Kurotoshiko GbE-USB3.0
39.It Kurotoshiko GbE-USB3.0S2
40.It Logitec LAN-GTJU3
41.It Logitec LAN-GTJU3H3
42.It Shanghai Donya DN-84327
43.El
44.Pp
45The
46.Nm
47driver supports the following media types:
48.Bl -tag -width "autoselect"
49.It autoselect
50Enable autoselection of the media type and options (this is the default).
51The user can manually override the autoselected mode by adding media
52options to the appropriate
53.Xr ifconfig.if 5
54file.
55.It 10baseT
56Set 10Mbps operation.
57.It 100baseTX
58Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
59.It 1000baseT
60Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
61.El
62.Pp
63For more information on configuring this device, see
64.Xr ifconfig 8 .
65.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
66.Bl -diag
67.It "axen%d: watchdog timeout"
68A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was
69issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the transmission
70before a timeout expired.
71.El
72.Sh SEE ALSO
73.Xr arp 4 ,
74.Xr mii 4 ,
75.Xr netintro 4 ,
76.Xr rgephy 4 ,
77.Xr usb 4 ,
78.Xr ifconfig.if 5 ,
79.Xr ifconfig 8
80.Sh HISTORY
81The
82.Nm
83device driver first appeared in
84.Ox 5.4
85and in
86.Nx 7.0 .
87.Sh AUTHORS
88.An -nosplit
89The
90.Nm
91driver was written by
92.An Yojiro UO Aq Mt yuo@nui.org
93for
94.Ox
95and ported to
96.Nx
97by
98.An NONAKA Kimihiro Aq Mt nonaka@NetBSD.org .
99