NAME
alc
—
Atheros AR813x/AR815x 10/100/Gigabit
Ethernet device
SYNOPSIS
alc* at pci?
atphy* at mii?
DESCRIPTION
The alc
driver provides support for
Ethernet interfaces based on the Atheros AR813x/AR815x Ethernet chipset.
The alc
driver supports IPv4 receive
IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload and VLAN tag insertion and stripping.
The following media types are supported:
autoselect
- Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
10baseT
- Set 10Mbps operation.
100baseTX
- Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
1000baseT
- Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
For more information on configuring this device, see
ifconfig(8). To view a list of media types and options supported by
the card, try ifconfig <device> media
. For
example, ifconfig alc0 media
.
SEE ALSO
arp(4), atphy(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
The alc
device driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 4.7.
AUTHORS
The alc
driver was written by
Pyun YongHyeon for FreeBSD
and ported to OpenBSD by Kevin
Lo
<kevlo@openbsd.org>.