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17.Dd $Mdocdate: August 8 2009 $
18.Dt ALC 4
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm alc
22.Nd Atheros AR8131/AR8132 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Cd "alc* at pci?"
25.Cd "atphy* at mii?"
26.Sh DESCRIPTION
27The
28.Nm
29driver provides support for Ethernet interfaces based on the
30Atheros AR8131/AR8132 Ethernet chipset, also known as
31the Attansic L1C/L2C respectively.
32.Pp
33The
34.Nm
35driver supports IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload and VLAN
36tag insertion and stripping.
37.Pp
38The following
39.Ar media
40types are supported:
41.Pp
42.Bl -tag -width autoselect -compact
43.It Cm autoselect
44Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
45.It Cm 10baseT
46Set 10Mbps operation.
47.It Cm 100baseTX
48Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
49.It Cm 1000baseT
50Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
51.El
52.Pp
53For more information on configuring this device, see
54.Xr ifconfig 8 .
55To view a list of media types and options supported by the card, try
56.Ic ifconfig <device> media .
57For example,
58.Ic ifconfig alc0 media .
59.Sh SEE ALSO
60.Xr arp 4 ,
61.Xr atphy 4 ,
62.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
63.Xr intro 4 ,
64.Xr netintro 4 ,
65.Xr pci 4 ,
66.Xr hostname.if 5 ,
67.Xr ifconfig 8
68.Sh HISTORY
69The
70.Nm
71device driver first appeared in
72.Ox 4.7 .
73.Sh AUTHORS
74.An -nosplit
75The
76.Nm
77driver was written by
78.An Pyun YongHyeon
79for
80.Fx
81and ported to
82.Ox
83by
84.An Kevin Lo
85.Aq kevlo@openbsd.org .
86