1.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000-2003 2.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@windriver.com>. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by Bill Paul. 15.\" 4. Neither the name of the author nor the names of any co-contributors 16.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 17.\" without specific prior written permission. 18.\" 19.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY Bill Paul AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 20.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 21.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 22.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. 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.Dd October 4, 2023 32.Dt AXGE 4 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm axge 36.Nd "ASIX Electronics AX88178A/179/179A USB Gigabit Ethernet driver" 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38To compile this driver into the kernel, 39place the following lines in your 40kernel configuration file: 41.Bd -ragged -offset indent 42.Cd "device xhci" 43.Cd "device ehci" 44.Cd "device uhci" 45.Cd "device ohci" 46.Cd "device usb" 47.Cd "device miibus" 48.Cd "device uether" 49.Cd "device axge" 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_axge_load="YES" 57.Ed 58.Sh DESCRIPTION 59The 60.Nm 61driver provides support for USB Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX 62Electronics AX88179/AX88179A USB 3.0 and AX88178A USB 2.0 chipsets. 63.Pp 64The AX88179, AX88179A and AX88178A contain a 10/100/1000 Ethernet MAC with a 65GMII interface for interfacing with the Gigabit Ethernet PHY. 66.Pp 67These devices will operate with both USB 1.x and USB 2.0 controllers, and the 68AX88179/AX88179A will operate with USB 3.0 controllers. 69Packets are received and transmitted over separate USB bulk transfer endpoints. 70.Pp 71The 72.Nm 73driver supports the following media types: 74.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP" 75.It Cm autoselect 76Enable autoselection of the media type and options. 77The user can manually override 78the autoselected mode by adding media options to 79.Xr rc.conf 5 . 80.It Cm 10baseT/UTP 81Set 10Mbps operation. 82The 83.Xr ifconfig 8 84.Cm mediaopt 85option can also be used to select either 86.Cm full-duplex 87or 88.Cm half-duplex 89modes. 90.It Cm 100baseTX 91Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. 92The 93.Xr ifconfig 8 94.Cm mediaopt 95option can also be used to select either 96.Cm full-duplex 97or 98.Cm half-duplex 99modes. 100.It Cm 1000baseT 101Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation (AX88178 only). 102The 103.Xr ifconfig 8 104.Cm mediaopt 105option can also be used to select either 106.Cm full-duplex 107or 108.Cm half-duplex 109modes. 110.El 111.Pp 112The 113.Nm 114driver supports the following media options: 115.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex" 116.It Cm full-duplex 117Force full duplex operation. 118.It Cm half-duplex 119Force half duplex operation. 120.El 121.Pp 122For more information on configuring this device, see 123.Xr ifconfig 8 . 124.Sh SEE ALSO 125.Xr altq 4 , 126.Xr arp 4 , 127.Xr miibus 4 , 128.Xr netintro 4 , 129.Xr ng_ether 4 , 130.Xr rgephy 4 , 131.Xr vlan 4 , 132.Xr ifconfig 8 133.Sh HISTORY 134The 135.Nm 136device driver first appeared in 137.Fx 10.1 . 138.Sh AUTHORS 139.An -nosplit 140The 141.Nm 142driver was written by 143.An Kevin Lo Aq Mt kevlo@FreeBSD.org 144and 145.An Li-Wen Hsu Aq Mt lwhsu@FreeBSD.org . 146This manual page was adapted by 147.An Mark Johnston Aq Mt markj@FreeBSD.org 148from the 149.Xr axe 4 150manual page. 151