1.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000-2003 2.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@windriver.com>. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by Bill Paul. 15.\" 4. Neither the name of the author nor the names of any co-contributors 16.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 17.\" without specific prior written permission. 18.\" 19.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY Bill Paul AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 20.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 21.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 22.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL Bill Paul OR THE VOICES IN HIS HEAD 23.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 24.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 25.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 26.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 27.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 28.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF 29.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" 31.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/axge.4 267938 2014-06-26 21:46:14Z bapt $ 32.\" 33.Dd May 27, 2021 34.Dt AXGE 4 35.Os 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm axge 38.Nd "ASIX Electronics AX88178A/AX88179 USB Gigabit Ethernet driver" 39.Sh SYNOPSIS 40To compile this driver into the kernel, 41place the following lines in your 42kernel configuration file: 43.Bd -ragged -offset indent 44.Cd "device xhci" 45.Cd "device ehci" 46.Cd "device uhci" 47.Cd "device ohci" 48.Cd "device usb" 49.Cd "device miibus" 50.Cd "device uether" 51.Cd "device axge" 52.Ed 53.Pp 54Alternatively, to load the driver as a 55module at boot time, place the following line in 56.Xr loader.conf 5 : 57.Bd -literal -offset indent 58if_axge_load="YES" 59.Ed 60.Sh DESCRIPTION 61The 62.Nm 63driver provides support for USB Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX 64Electronics AX88179 USB 3.0 and AX88178A USB 2.0 chipsets. 65.Pp 66The AX88179 and AX88178A contain a 10/100/1000 Ethernet MAC with a GMII 67interface for interfacing with the Gigabit Ethernet PHY. 68.Pp 69These devices will operate with both USB 1.x and USB 2.0 controllers, and the 70AX88179 will operate with USB 3.0 controllers. 71Packets are received and transmitted over separate USB bulk transfer endpoints. 72.Pp 73The 74.Nm 75driver supports the following media types: 76.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP" 77.It Cm autoselect 78Enable autoselection of the media type and options. 79The user can manually override 80the autoselected mode by adding media options to 81.Xr rc.conf 5 . 82.It Cm 10baseT/UTP 83Set 10Mbps operation. 84The 85.Xr ifconfig 8 86.Cm mediaopt 87option can also be used to select either 88.Cm full-duplex 89or 90.Cm half-duplex 91modes. 92.It Cm 100baseTX 93Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. 94The 95.Xr ifconfig 8 96.Cm mediaopt 97option can also be used to select either 98.Cm full-duplex 99or 100.Cm half-duplex 101modes. 102.It Cm 1000baseT 103Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation (AX88178 only). 104The 105.Xr ifconfig 8 106.Cm mediaopt 107option can also be used to select either 108.Cm full-duplex 109or 110.Cm half-duplex 111modes. 112.El 113.Pp 114The 115.Nm 116driver supports the following media options: 117.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex" 118.It Cm full-duplex 119Force full duplex operation. 120.It Cm half-duplex 121Force half duplex operation. 122.El 123.Pp 124For more information on configuring this device, see 125.Xr ifconfig 8 . 126.Sh SEE ALSO 127.Xr altq 4 , 128.Xr arp 4 , 129.Xr ifmedia 4 , 130.Xr miibus 4 , 131.Xr netintro 4 , 132.Xr ng_ether 4 , 133.Xr rgephy 4 , 134.Xr usb 4 , 135.Xr vlan 4 , 136.Xr ifconfig 8 137.Sh HISTORY 138The 139.Nm 140device driver first appeared in 141.Fx 10.1 . 142.Sh AUTHORS 143.An -nosplit 144The 145.Nm 146driver was written by 147.An Kevin Lo Aq Mt kevlo@FreeBSD.org 148and 149.An Li-Wen Hsu Aq Mt lwhsu@FreeBSD.org . 150This manual page was adapted by 151.An Mark Johnston Aq Mt markj@FreeBSD.org 152from the 153.Xr axe 4 154manual page. 155