axe — ASIX Electronics AX88x7x/760 USB Ethernet driver

       The axe driver was written by Bill Paul <wpaul@windriver.com>.

Debian                                          November 24, 2015                                         AXE(4)

       The axe driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX Electronics AX88172, AX88178,
       AX88772, AX88772A, AX88772B and AX88760 USB 2.0 chipsets.

       The AX88172, AX88772, AX88772A, AX88772B and AX88760 contain a 10/100 Ethernet MAC with MII interface and
       are designed to work with both Ethernet and HomePNA transceivers.  The AX88178 has a 10/100/1000 Ethernet
       MAC with GMII/RGMII interface for interfacing with Gigabit Ethernet PHY.

       These  devices  will  operate  with  both  USB  1.x and USB 2.0 controllers, however performance with 1.x
       controllers will be limited since the USB 1.x standard specifies a  maximum  transfer  speed  of  12Mbps.
       Users  with USB 1.x controllers should therefore not expect to actually achieve 100Mbps speeds with these
       devices.

       All chipsets support a 64-bit multicast hash table, single perfect filter entry for the station  address,
       all-multicast  mode  and  promiscuous  mode.  Packets are received and transmitted over separate USB bulk
       transfer endpoints.

       The axe driver supports the following media types:

       autoselect   Enable autoselection of the media type and options.  The  user  can  manually  override  the
                    autoselected mode by adding media options to rc.conf(5).

       10baseT/UTP  Set  10Mbps  operation.   The  ifconfig(8) mediaopt option can also be used to select either
                    full-duplex or half-duplex modes.

       100baseTX    Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.  The ifconfig(8) mediaopt option can also be used  to
                    select either full-duplex or half-duplex modes.

       1000baseT    Set  1000Mbps  (Gigabit Ethernet) operation (AX88178 only).  The ifconfig(8) mediaopt option
                    can also be used to select either full-duplex or half-duplex modes.

       The axe driver supports the following media options:

       full-duplex  Force full duplex operation.

       half-duplex  Force half duplex operation.

       For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).

axe%d:watchdogtimeout  A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was issued, however
       the device failed to acknowledge the transmission before a timeout expired.

       axe%d:nomemoryforrxlist  The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring.

       The axe driver supports  ASIX  Electronics  AX88172/AX88178/AX88772/AX88772A/AX88772B/AX88760  based  USB
       Ethernet adapters including:

       AX88172:
       •   AboCom UF200
       •   Acer Communications EP1427X2
       •   ASIX AX88172
       •   ATen UC210T
       •   Billionton SnapPort
       •   Billionton USB2AR
       •   Buffalo (Melco Inc.) LUA-U2-KTX
       •   Corega USB2_TX
       •   D-Link DUBE100
       •   Goodway GWUSB2E
       •   JVC MP_PRX1
       •   LinkSys USB200M
       •   Netgear FA120
       •   Sitecom LN-029
       •   System TALKS Inc. SGC-X2UL

       AX88178:
       •   ASIX AX88178
       •   Belkin F5D5055
       •   Logitec LAN-GTJ/U2A
       •   Buffalo (Melco Inc.) LUA3-U2-AGT
       •   Planex Communications GU1000T
       •   Sitecom Europe LN-028

       AX88772:
       •   ASIX AX88772
       •   Buffalo (Melco Inc.) LUA3-U2-ATX
       •   D-Link DUBE100B1
       •   Planex UE-200TX-G
       •   Planex UE-200TX-G2

       AX88772A:
       •   ASIX AX88772A
       •   Cisco-Linksys USB200Mv2

       AX88772B:
       •   ASIX AX88772B
       •   Lenovo USB 2.0 Ethernet

       AX88760:
       •   ASIX AX88760

       The axe device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0.

       axe — ASIX Electronics AX88x7x/760 USB Ethernet driver

altq(4), arp(4), miibus(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), rgephy(4), vlan(4), ifconfig(8)

       ASIXAX88x7xandAX88760datasheets, http://www.asix.com.tw.

       To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

             deviceehcideviceuhcideviceohcideviceusbdevicemiibusdeviceuetherdeviceaxe

       Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

             if_axe_load="YES"