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IN NO EVENT SHALL Bill Paul OR THE VOICES IN HIS HEAD 23.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 24.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 25.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 26.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 27.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 28.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF 29.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" 31.\" $FreeBSD$ 32.\" 33.Dd November 24, 2015 34.Dt AUE 4 35.Os 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm aue 38.Nd ADMtek AN986 Pegasus USB Ethernet driver 39.Sh SYNOPSIS 40To compile this driver into the kernel, 41place the following lines in your 42kernel configuration file: 43.Bd -ragged -offset indent 44.Cd "device uhci" 45.Cd "device ohci" 46.Cd "device usb" 47.Cd "device miibus" 48.Cd "device uether" 49.Cd "device aue" 50.Ed 51.Pp 52Alternatively, to load the driver as a 53module at boot time, place the following line in 54.Xr loader.conf 5 : 55.Bd -literal -offset indent 56if_aue_load="YES" 57.Ed 58.Sh DESCRIPTION 59The 60.Nm 61driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the ADMtek 62AN986 Pegasus chipset. 63.Pp 64The LinkSys USB10T adapters that contain the AN986 Pegasus chipset 65will operate at 100Base-TX and full-duplex. 66.Pp 67The Pegasus contains a 10/100 68Ethernet MAC with MII interface and is designed to work with both 69Ethernet and HomePNA transceivers. 70Although designed to interface with 71100Mbps peripherals, the existing USB standard specifies a maximum 72transfer speed of 12Mbps. 73Users should therefore not expect to actually 74achieve 100Mbps speeds with these devices. 75.Pp 76The Pegasus supports a 64-bit multicast hash table, single perfect 77filter entry for the station address and promiscuous mode. 78Packets are 79received and transmitted over separate USB bulk transfer endpoints. 80.Pp 81The 82.Nm 83driver supports the following media types: 84.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 85.It autoselect 86Enable autoselection of the media type and options. 87The user can manually override 88the autoselected mode by adding media options to the 89.Pa /etc/rc.conf 90file. 91.It 10baseT/UTP 92Set 10Mbps operation. 93The 94.Ar mediaopt 95option can also be used to enable 96.Ar full-duplex 97operation. 98Not specifying 99.Ar full duplex 100implies 101.Ar half-duplex 102mode. 103.It 100baseTX 104Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. 105The 106.Ar mediaopt 107option can also be used to enable 108.Ar full-duplex 109operation. 110Not specifying 111.Ar full duplex 112implies 113.Ar half-duplex 114mode. 115.El 116.Pp 117The 118.Nm 119driver supports the following media options: 120.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 121.It full-duplex 122Force full duplex operation. 123The interface will operate in 124half duplex mode if this media option is not specified. 125.El 126.Pp 127For more information on configuring this device, see 128.Xr ifconfig 8 . 129.Sh HARDWARE 130Adapters supported by the 131.Nm 132driver include: 133.Pp 134.Bl -bullet -compact 135.It 136Abocom UFE1000, DSB650TX_NA 137.It 138Accton USB320-EC, SpeedStream 139.It 140ADMtek AN986, AN8511 141.It 142Billionton USB100, USB100LP, USB100EL, USBE100 143.It 144Corega Ether FEther USB-T, FEther USB-TX, FEther USB-TXS 145.It 146D-Link DSB-650, DSB-650TX, DSB-650TX-PNA 147.It 148Elecom LD-USBL/TX 149.It 150Elsa Microlink USB2Ethernet 151.It 152HP hn210e 153.It 154I-O Data USB ETTX 155.It 156Kingston KNU101TX 157.It 158LinkSys USB10T adapters that contain the AN986 Pegasus chipset, 159USB10TA, USB10TX, USB100TX, USB100H1 160.It 161MELCO LUA-TX, LUA2-TX 162.It 163Netgear FA101 164.It 165Planex UE-200TX 166.It 167Sandberg USB to Network Link (model number 133-06) 168.It 169Siemens Speedstream 170.It 171SmartBridges smartNIC 172.It 173SMC 2202USB 174.It 175SOHOware NUB100 176.El 177.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 178.Bl -diag 179.It "aue%d: watchdog timeout" 180A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was 181issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the transmission 182before a timeout expired. 183.It "aue%d: no memory for rx list" 184The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring. 185.El 186.Sh SEE ALSO 187.Xr altq 4 , 188.Xr arp 4 , 189.Xr miibus 4 , 190.Xr netintro 4 , 191.Xr ng_ether 4 , 192.Xr ifconfig 8 193.Rs 194.%T ADMtek AN986 data sheet 195.%U http://www.admtek.com.tw 196.Re 197.Sh HISTORY 198The 199.Nm 200device driver first appeared in 201.Fx 4.0 . 202.Sh AUTHORS 203The 204.Nm 205driver was written by 206.An Bill Paul Aq Mt wpaul@ee.columbia.edu . 207