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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.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 84.It autoselect 85Enable autoselection of the media type and options. 86The user can manually override 87the autoselected mode by adding media options to the 88.Pa /etc/rc.conf 89file. 90.It 10baseT/UTP 91Set 10Mbps operation. 92The 93.Ar mediaopt 94option can also be used to enable 95.Ar full-duplex 96operation. 97Not specifying 98.Ar full duplex 99implies 100.Ar half-duplex 101mode. 102.It 100baseTX 103Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. 104The 105.Ar mediaopt 106option can also be used to enable 107.Ar full-duplex 108operation. 109Not specifying 110.Ar full duplex 111implies 112.Ar half-duplex 113mode. 114.El 115.Pp 116The 117.Nm 118driver supports the following media options: 119.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 120.It full-duplex 121Force full duplex operation. 122The interface will operate in 123half duplex mode if this media option is not specified. 124.El 125.Pp 126For more information on configuring this device, see 127.Xr ifconfig 8 . 128.Sh HARDWARE 129Adapters supported by the 130.Nm 131driver include: 132.Pp 133.Bl -bullet -compact 134.It 135Abocom UFE1000, DSB650TX_NA 136.It 137Accton USB320-EC, SpeedStream 138.It 139ADMtek AN986, AN8511 140.It 141Billionton USB100, USB100LP, USB100EL, USBE100 142.It 143Corega Ether FEther USB-T, FEther USB-TX, FEther USB-TXS 144.It 145D-Link DSB-650, DSB-650TX, DSB-650TX-PNA 146.It 147Elecom LD-USBL/TX 148.It 149Elsa Microlink USB2Ethernet 150.It 151HP hn210e 152.It 153I-O Data USB ETTX 154.It 155Kingston KNU101TX 156.It 157LinkSys USB10T adapters that contain the AN986 Pegasus chipset, 158USB10TA, USB10TX, USB100TX, USB100H1 159.It 160MELCO LUA-TX, LUA2-TX 161.It 162Netgear FA101 163.It 164Planex UE-200TX 165.It 166Sandberg USB to Network Link (model number 133-06) 167.It 168Siemens Speedstream 169.It 170SmartBridges smartNIC 171.It 172SMC 2202USB 173.It 174SOHOware NUB100 175.El 176.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 177.Bl -diag 178.It "aue%d: watchdog timeout" 179A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was 180issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the transmission 181before a timeout expired. 182.It "aue%d: no memory for rx list" 183The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring. 184.El 185.Sh SEE ALSO 186.Xr altq 4 , 187.Xr arp 4 , 188.Xr miibus 4 , 189.Xr netintro 4 , 190.Xr ng_ether 4 , 191.Xr ifconfig 8 192.Rs 193.%T ADMtek AN986 data sheet 194.%U http://www.admtek.com.tw 195.Re 196.Sh HISTORY 197The 198.Nm 199device driver first appeared in 200.Fx 4.0 . 201.Sh AUTHORS 202The 203.Nm 204driver was written by 205.An Bill Paul Aq Mt wpaul@ee.columbia.edu . 206