NAME
axen —
ASIX Electronics AX88178a/AX88179
10/100/Gigabit USB Ethernet device
SYNOPSIS
axen* at uhub? port ?
rgephy* at mii?
DESCRIPTION
Theaxen 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
- D-Link DUB-1312
- 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>.