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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 USB 2.0 and AX88179 USB 3.0 chipsets 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 8.0                      April 13, 2017                      NetBSD 8.0