NAME
axge – ASIX Electronics AX88178A/179/179A USB Gigabit Ethernet driver
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
device xhci device ehci device uhci device ohci device usb device miibus device uether device axge
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
if_axge_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The axge driver provides support for USB Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX Electronics AX88179/AX88179A USB 3.0 and AX88178A USB 2.0 chipsets.
The AX88179, AX88179A and AX88178A contain a 10/100/1000 Ethernet MAC with a GMII interface for interfacing with the Gigabit Ethernet PHY.
These devices will operate with both USB 1.x and USB 2.0 controllers, and the AX88179/AX88179A will operate with USB 3.0 controllers. Packets are received and transmitted over separate USB bulk transfer endpoints.
The axge driver supports the following media types:
- autoselect
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Enable autoselection of the media type and options. The user can manually override the autoselected mode by adding media options to rc.conf(5).
- 10baseT/UTP
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Set 10Mbps operation. The ifconfig(8) mediaopt option can also be used to select either full-duplex or half-duplex modes.
- 100baseTX
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Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. The ifconfig(8) mediaopt option can also be used to select either full-duplex or half-duplex modes.
- 1000baseT
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Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation (AX88178 only). The ifconfig(8) mediaopt option can also be used to select either full-duplex or half-duplex modes.
The axge driver supports the following media options:
- full-duplex
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Force full duplex operation.
- half-duplex
-
Force half duplex operation.
For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).
HARDWARE
The axge driver supports the following USB Gigabit Ethernet controllers:
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ASIX Electronics AX88179A
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ASIX Electronics AX88179
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ASIX Electronics AX88178A
SEE ALSO
altq(4), arp(4), miibus(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), rgephy(4), vlan(4), ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
The axge device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 10.1.
AUTHORS
The axge driver was written by Kevin Lo ⟨[email protected]⟩ and Li-Wen Hsu ⟨[email protected]⟩. This manual page was adapted by Mark Johnston ⟨[email protected]⟩ from the axe(4) manual page.