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 November 15, 2014 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 axge" 51.Ed 52.Pp 53Alternatively, to load the driver as a 54module at boot time, place the following line in 55.Xr loader.conf 5 : 56.Bd -literal -offset indent 57if_axge_load="YES" 58.Ed 59.Sh DESCRIPTION 60The 61.Nm 62driver provides support for USB Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX 63Electronics AX88179 USB 3.0 and AX88178A USB 2.0 chipsets. 64.Pp 65The AX88179 and AX88178A contain a 10/100/1000 Ethernet MAC with a GMII 66interface for interfacing with the Gigabit Ethernet PHY. 67.Pp 68These devices will operate with both USB 1.x and USB 2.0 controllers, and the 69AX88179 will operate with USB 3.0 controllers. 70Packets are received and transmitted over separate USB bulk transfer endpoints. 71.Pp 72The 73.Nm 74driver supports the following media types: 75.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP" 76.It Cm autoselect 77Enable autoselection of the media type and options. 78The user can manually override 79the autoselected mode by adding media options to 80.Xr rc.conf 5 . 81.It Cm 10baseT/UTP 82Set 10Mbps operation. 83The 84.Xr ifconfig 8 85.Cm mediaopt 86option can also be used to select either 87.Cm full-duplex 88or 89.Cm half-duplex 90modes. 91.It Cm 100baseTX 92Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. 93The 94.Xr ifconfig 8 95.Cm mediaopt 96option can also be used to select either 97.Cm full-duplex 98or 99.Cm half-duplex 100modes. 101.It Cm 1000baseT 102Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation (AX88178 only). 103The 104.Xr ifconfig 8 105.Cm mediaopt 106option can also be used to select either 107.Cm full-duplex 108or 109.Cm half-duplex 110modes. 111.El 112.Pp 113The 114.Nm 115driver supports the following media options: 116.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex" 117.It Cm full-duplex 118Force full duplex operation. 119.It Cm half-duplex 120Force half duplex operation. 121.El 122.Pp 123For more information on configuring this device, see 124.Xr ifconfig 8 . 125.Sh SEE ALSO 126.Xr altq 4 , 127.Xr arp 4 , 128.Xr ifmedia 4 , 129.Xr miibus 4 , 130.Xr netintro 4 , 131.Xr ng_ether 4 , 132.Xr rgephy 4 , 133.Xr vlan 4 , 134.Xr ifconfig 8 135.Sh HISTORY 136The 137.Nm 138device driver first appeared in 139.Fx 10.1 . 140.Sh AUTHORS 141.An -nosplit 142The 143.Nm 144driver was written by 145.An Kevin Lo Aq Mt kevlo@FreeBSD.org 146and 147.An Li-Wen Hsu Aq Mt lwhsu@FreeBSD.org . 148This manual page was adapted by 149.An Mark Johnston Aq Mt markj@FreeBSD.org 150from the 151.Xr axe 4 152manual page. 153