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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 July 16, 2005 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 support for the 41.Nm 42driver into your kernel, place the following lines in your 43kernel configuration file: 44.Bd -ragged -offset indent 45.Cd "device uhci" 46.Cd "device ohci" 47.Cd "device usb" 48.Cd "device miibus" 49.Cd "device aue" 50.Ed 51.Pp 52Alternatively, to load the 53.Nm 54driver at boot time, place the following line in 55.Xr loader.conf 5 : 56.Bd -literal -offset indent 57if_aue_load="YES" 58.Ed 59.Sh DESCRIPTION 60The 61.Nm 62driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the ADMtek 63AN986 Pegasus chipset. 64.Pp 65The LinkSys USB10T adapters that contain the AN986 Pegasus chipset 66will operate at 100Base-TX and full-duplex. 67.Pp 68The Pegasus contains a 10/100 69Ethernet MAC with MII interface and is designed to work with both 70Ethernet and HomePNA transceivers. 71Although designed to interface with 72100Mbps peripherals, the existing USB standard specifies a maximum 73transfer speed of 12Mbps. 74Users should therefore not expect to actually 75achieve 100Mbps speeds with these devices. 76.Pp 77The Pegasus supports a 64-bit multicast hash table, single perfect 78filter entry for the station address and promiscuous mode. 79Packets are 80received and transmitted over separate USB bulk transfer endpoints. 81.Pp 82The 83.Nm 84driver supports the following media types: 85.Pp 86.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 87.It autoselect 88Enable autoselection of the media type and options. 89The user can manually override 90the autoselected mode by adding media options to the 91.Pa /etc/rc.conf 92file. 93.It 10baseT/UTP 94Set 10Mbps operation. 95The 96.Ar mediaopt 97option can also be used to enable 98.Ar full-duplex 99operation. 100Not specifying 101.Ar full duplex 102implies 103.Ar half-duplex 104mode. 105.It 100baseTX 106Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. 107The 108.Ar mediaopt 109option can also be used to enable 110.Ar full-duplex 111operation. 112Not specifying 113.Ar full duplex 114implies 115.Ar half-duplex 116mode. 117.El 118.Pp 119The 120.Nm 121driver supports the following media options: 122.Pp 123.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 124.It full-duplex 125Force full duplex operation. 126The interface will operate in 127half duplex mode if this media option is not specified. 128.El 129.Pp 130For more information on configuring this device, see 131.Xr ifconfig 8 . 132.Sh HARDWARE 133Adapters supported by the 134.Nm 135driver include: 136.Pp 137.Bl -bullet -compact 138.It 139Abocom UFE1000, DSB650TX_NA 140.It 141Accton USB320-EC, SpeedStream 142.It 143ADMtek AN986, AN8511 144.It 145Billionton USB100, USB100LP, USB100EL, USBE100 146.It 147Corega Ether FEther USB-T, FEther USB-TX, FEther USB-TXS 148.It 149D-Link DSB-650, DSB-650TX, DSB-650TX-PNA 150.It 151Elecom LD-USBL/TX 152.It 153Elsa Microlink USB2Ethernet 154.It 155HP hn210e 156.It 157I-O Data USB ETTX 158.It 159Kingston KNU101TX 160.It 161LinkSys USB10T adapters that contain the AN986 Pegasus chipset, 162USB10TA, USB10TX, USB100TX, USB100H1 163.It 164MELCO LUA-TX, LUA2-TX 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 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.%O 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 wpaul@ee.columbia.edu . 207