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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 kernel 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 52.Nm 53driver 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.Pp 85.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 86.It autoselect 87Enable autoselection of the media type and options. 88The user can manually override 89the autoselected mode by adding media options to the 90.Pa /etc/rc.conf 91file. 92.It 10baseT/UTP 93Set 10Mbps operation. 94The 95.Ar mediaopt 96option can also be used to enable 97.Ar full-duplex 98operation. 99Not specifying 100.Ar full duplex 101implies 102.Ar half-duplex 103mode. 104.It 100baseTX 105Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. 106The 107.Ar mediaopt 108option can also be used to enable 109.Ar full-duplex 110operation. 111Not specifying 112.Ar full duplex 113implies 114.Ar half-duplex 115mode. 116.El 117.Pp 118The 119.Nm 120driver supports the following media options: 121.Pp 122.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 123.It full-duplex 124Force full duplex operation. 125The interface will operate in 126half duplex mode if this media option is not specified. 127.El 128.Pp 129For more information on configuring this device, see 130.Xr ifconfig 8 . 131.Sh HARDWARE 132Adapters supported by the 133.Nm 134driver include: 135.Pp 136.Bl -bullet -compact 137.It 138Abocom UFE1000, DSB650TX_NA 139.It 140Accton USB320-EC, SpeedStream 141.It 142ADMtek AN986, AN8511 143.It 144Billionton USB100, USB100LP, USB100EL, USBE100 145.It 146Corega Ether FEther USB-T, FEther USB-TX, FEther USB-TXS 147.It 148D-Link DSB-650, DSB-650TX, DSB-650TX-PNA 149.It 150Elecom LD-USBL/TX 151.It 152Elsa Microlink USB2Ethernet 153.It 154HP hn210e 155.It 156I-O Data USB ETTX 157.It 158Kingston KNU101TX 159.It 160LinkSys USB10T adapters that contain the AN986 Pegasus chipset, 161USB10TA, USB10TX, USB100TX, USB100H1 162.It 163MELCO LUA-TX, LUA2-TX 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 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.%O 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 wpaul@ee.columbia.edu . 206