NAME
axen —
ASIX Electronics AX88178a/AX88179
10/100/Gigabit USB Ethernet device
SYNOPSIS
axen* at uhub?
rgephy* at mii?
DESCRIPTION
The axen driver provides support for USB
Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX Electronics AX88178a and AX88779 USB 2.0
chipsets (potentially the AX88779 supports USB 3.0, but there is currently
no xhci support in OpenBSD), including the
following:
- Kurotoshiko GbE-USB3.0
- Logitec LAN-GTJU3
The axen driver supports the following
media types:
- autoselect
- Enable autoselection of the media type and options (this is the default). The user can manually override the autoselected mode by adding media options to the appropriate hostname.if(5) file.
- 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).
SEE ALSO
arp(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), rgephy(4), usb(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
The axen device driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 5.4.
AUTHORS
The axen driver was written by
Yojiro UO
<yuo@nui.org>.