NAME
axge —
ASIX Electronics AX88178A/AX88179 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 axgeAlternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
if_axge_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
Theaxge driver provides support for USB Gigabit
Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX Electronics AX88179 USB 3.0 and AX88178A
USB 2.0 chipsets.
The AX88179 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 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- 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- Set 10Mbps operation. The
ifconfig(8)
mediaoptoption can also be used to select eitherfull-duplexorhalf-duplexmodes. 100baseTX- Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. The
ifconfig(8)
mediaoptoption can also be used to select eitherfull-duplexorhalf-duplexmodes. 1000baseT- Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation (AX88178 only). The
ifconfig(8)
mediaoptoption can also be used to select eitherfull-duplexorhalf-duplexmodes.
The axge driver supports the following
media options:
full-duplex- Force full duplex operation.
half-duplex- Force half duplex operation.
For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).
SEE ALSO
altq(4), arp(4), ifmedia(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
<kevlo@FreeBSD.org>
and Li-Wen Hsu
<lwhsu@FreeBSD.org>.
This manual page was adapted by Mark Johnston
<markj@FreeBSD.org>
from the axe(4) manual page.