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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 October 7, 2006 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 aue" 49.Ed 50.Pp 51Alternatively, to load the driver as a 52module at boot time, place the following line in 53.Xr loader.conf 5 : 54.Bd -literal -offset indent 55if_aue_load="YES" 56.Ed 57.Sh DESCRIPTION 58The 59.Nm 60driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the ADMtek 61AN986 Pegasus chipset. 62.Pp 63The LinkSys USB10T adapters that contain the AN986 Pegasus chipset 64will operate at 100Base-TX and full-duplex. 65.Pp 66The Pegasus contains a 10/100 67Ethernet MAC with MII interface and is designed to work with both 68Ethernet and HomePNA transceivers. 69Although designed to interface with 70100Mbps peripherals, the existing USB standard specifies a maximum 71transfer speed of 12Mbps. 72Users should therefore not expect to actually 73achieve 100Mbps speeds with these devices. 74.Pp 75The Pegasus supports a 64-bit multicast hash table, single perfect 76filter entry for the station address and promiscuous mode. 77Packets are 78received and transmitted over separate USB bulk transfer endpoints. 79.Pp 80The 81.Nm 82driver supports the following media types: 83.Pp 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.Pp 121.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 122.It full-duplex 123Force full duplex operation. 124The interface will operate in 125half duplex mode if this media option is not specified. 126.El 127.Pp 128For more information on configuring this device, see 129.Xr ifconfig 8 . 130.Sh HARDWARE 131Adapters supported by the 132.Nm 133driver include: 134.Pp 135.Bl -bullet -compact 136.It 137Abocom UFE1000, DSB650TX_NA 138.It 139Accton USB320-EC, SpeedStream 140.It 141ADMtek AN986, AN8511 142.It 143Billionton USB100, USB100LP, USB100EL, USBE100 144.It 145Corega Ether FEther USB-T, FEther USB-TX, FEther USB-TXS 146.It 147D-Link DSB-650, DSB-650TX, DSB-650TX-PNA 148.It 149Elecom LD-USBL/TX 150.It 151Elsa Microlink USB2Ethernet 152.It 153HP hn210e 154.It 155I-O Data USB ETTX 156.It 157Kingston KNU101TX 158.It 159LinkSys USB10T adapters that contain the AN986 Pegasus chipset, 160USB10TA, USB10TX, USB100TX, USB100H1 161.It 162MELCO LUA-TX, LUA2-TX 163.It 164Netgear FA101 165.It 166Planex UE-200TX 167.It 168Sandberg USB to Network Link (model number 133-06) 169.It 170Siemens Speedstream 171.It 172SmartBridges smartNIC 173.It 174SMC 2202USB 175.It 176SOHOware NUB100 177.El 178.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 179.Bl -diag 180.It "aue%d: watchdog timeout" 181A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was 182issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the transmission 183before a timeout expired. 184.It "aue%d: no memory for rx list" 185The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring. 186.El 187.Sh SEE ALSO 188.Xr altq 4 , 189.Xr arp 4 , 190.Xr miibus 4 , 191.Xr netintro 4 , 192.Xr ng_ether 4 , 193.Xr ifconfig 8 194.Rs 195.%T ADMtek AN986 data sheet 196.%O http://www.admtek.com.tw 197.Re 198.Sh HISTORY 199The 200.Nm 201device driver first appeared in 202.Fx 4.0 . 203.Sh AUTHORS 204The 205.Nm 206driver was written by 207.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@ee.columbia.edu . 208