axen(4)
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AXEN(4) NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual AXEN(4)
NAME
axen -- ASIX Electronics AX88178a/AX88179 10/100/Gigabit USB Ethernet
device
SYNOPSIS
axen* at uhub? port ?
rgephy* at mii?
DESCRIPTION
The axen driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the
ASIX Electronics AX88178a and AX88779 USB 2.0 chipsets (potentially the
AX88779 supports USB 3.0, but there is currently no xhci support in
NetBSD), including the following:
Buffalo LUA4-U3-AGT
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 autose-
lected 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>.
NetBSD 7.1_STABLE April 21, 2015 NetBSD 7.1_STABLE
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