NAME
axen —
ASIX Electronics
AX88178a/AX88179 10/100/Gigabit USB Ethernet device
SYNOPSIS
axen* at uhub? port ?
rgephy* at mii?
DESCRIPTION
The
axen driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters
based on the ASIX Electronics AX88178a USB 2.0 and AX88179 USB 3.0 chipsets
including the following:
- Buffalo LUA4-U3-AGT
-
- Kurotoshiko GbE-USB3.0
-
- Kurotoshiko GbE-USB3.0S2
-
- Logitec LAN-GTJU3
-
- Logitec LAN-GTJU3H3
-
- Shanghai Donya DN-84327
-
The
axen driver supports the following media types:
-
-
- autoselect
- Enable autoselection of the media type and options (this is
the default). The user can manually override the autoselected mode by
adding media options to the appropriate
ifconfig.if(5)
file.
-
-
- 10baseT
- Set 10Mbps operation.
-
-
- 100baseTX
- Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
-
-
- 1000baseT
- Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
For more information on configuring this device, see
ifconfig(8).
DIAGNOSTICS
- axen%d: watchdog timeout
- A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit
command was issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the
transmission before a timeout expired.
SEE ALSO
arp(4),
mii(4),
netintro(4),
rgephy(4),
usb(4),
ifconfig.if(5),
ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
The
axen device driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 5.4 and in
NetBSD 7.0.
AUTHORS
The
axen driver was written by
Yojiro
UO <
yuo@nui.org> for
OpenBSD and ported to
NetBSD
by
NONAKA Kimihiro
<
nonaka@NetBSD.org>.