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axeASIX Electronics AX88172/AX88178/AX88772 10/100/1Gb USB Ethernet device

axe* at uhub?
rgephy* at mii?
rlphy* at mii?
eephy* at mii?

The axe driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX Electronics AX88172, AX88178, and AX88772 USB 2.0 chipsets, including the following:

Apple USB Ethernet Adapter A1277
 
ATEN UC-210T
 
BAFO BF-320
 
Billionton Systems USB2AR
 
Buffalo(MELCO) LUA-U2-GT
 
Buffalo(MELCO) LUA-U2-KTX
 
Corega FEther USB2-TX
 
D-Link DUB-E100
 
Delock Gigabit USB 2.0 Ethernet Adapter
 
Good Way GWUSB2E
 
Hawking UF200
 
Intellinet USB 2.0 to Ethernet (rev A)
 
IO-Data ETG-US2
 
JVC MP-PRX1
 
Konig CMP-NWUSB20
 
Lenovo USB 2.0 Ethernet
 
Level One USB-0200
 
Level One USB-0301
 
Linksys USB200M
 
Linksys USB1000
 
Logitec LAN-GTJ/U2
 
Netgear FA120
 
Nintendo Wii USB Lan Ethernet Adapter RVL-015
 
OQO model 01+ Ethernet
 
Sitecom LN-029
 
SMC 2209USB/ETH
 
SnapPort USB 2.0 LAN Adapter
 
ST Lab USB 2.0 Fast Ethernet
 
Surecom EP-1427X-2
 
System TALKS SGC-X2UL
 
TRENDnet TU2-ET100
 
Z-TEK ZK-R01-2
 

The AX88172, AX88178, and AX88772 are USB 2.0 devices designed to work with either Ethernet or HomePNA transceivers. The AX88172 and AX88772 contain 10/100 Ethernet MACs with MII interfaces. The AX88178 contains a 10/100/1Gb Ethernet MAC with a GMII/MII interface. All adapters will operate with either USB 1.x or 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.

A 64-bit multicast hash table is supported, 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 (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 (AX88178 only).

The axe driver supports the following media options:

full-duplex
Force full-duplex operation.
half-duplex
Force half-duplex operation.

The interface will operate in half-duplex mode if no media option is specified.

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

axe0: watchdog timeout
A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the transmission before a timeout expired.
axe0: no memory for rx list
The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring.

arp(4), eephy(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), rgephy(4), rlphy(4), usb(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)

ASIX AX88172 data sheet, https://www.asix.com.tw.

The axe device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 3.6.

The axe driver was written by Bill Paul <wpaul@windriver.com> and ported to OpenBSD by Greg Taleck <taleck@oz.net>.

February 18, 2022 OpenBSD-7.3