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aueADMtek AN986/ADM8511 Pegasus family 10/100 USB Ethernet device

aue* at uhub?
acphy* at mii?
bmtphy* at mii?
sqphy* at mii?

The aue driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the ADMtek AN986 ("Pegasus") and ADM8511 ("Pegasus II") chipsets. This includes the following adapters:

3Com 3c460b
 
Abocom UFE1000
 
Abocom DSB650TX
 
Accton USB320-EC
 
Accton SpeedStream Ethernet
 
Admtek Pegasus
 
Admtek Pegasus II
 
AEI USB Fast Ethernet
 
Allied Telesyn AT-USB100
 
ATEN UC-110T
 
Belkin F5D5050
 
Billionton Systems USB100
 
Billionton Systems USB100EL
 
Billionton Systems USB100LP
 
Billionton Systems USBE100
 
Corega FEther USB-TX
 
Corega FEther USB-TXS
 
D-Link DSB-650
 
D-Link DSB-650TX
 
D-Link DSB-650TX-PNA
 
ELCON Systemtechnik Goldpfeil P-LAN
 
Elecom LD-USB/TX
 
Elecom LD-USB20
 
Elecom LD-USBL/TX
 
Elsa Microlink USB2Ethernet
 
GIGABYTE GN-BR402W
 
Hawking UF100
 
HP HN210E
 
I/O DATA USB ET/TX
 
I/O DATA USB ET/TX-S
 
I/O DATA ETX-US2
 
Kingston KNU101TX
 
Laneed LD-USBL/TX
 
Linksys USB100TX
 
Linksys USB100H1
 
Linksys USB10T
 
Linksys USB10TA
 
Linksys USB10TX
 
Logitec LAN-TX/U1H2
 
Melco Inc. LUA-TX
 
Melco Inc. LUA2-TX
 
Microsoft MN110
 
Mobility EasiDock Ethernet
 
Netgear FA101
 
Omnidirectional Control Technology USB TO Ethernet
 
Siemens SpeedStream USB
 
Smartbridges smartNIC 2
 
SMC 2202USB/ETH
 
SMC 2206USB/ETH
 
SOHOware NUB100
 
SOHOware NUB110
 

The Pegasus family of chipsets contain a 10/100 Ethernet MAC with an MII interface and are designed to work with both Ethernet and HomePNA transceivers. Although the chipsets are designed to interface with 100Mbps peripherals, the USB 1.x standards specify a maximum transfer speed of 12Mbps. Users should therefore not expect to actually achieve 100Mbps speeds with these devices.

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

The aue 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 the appropriate hostname.if(5) file.
10baseT
Set 10Mbps operation. The mediaopt option can also be used to enable full-duplex operation. Not specifying full duplex implies half-duplex mode.
100baseTX
Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. The mediaopt option can also be used to enable full-duplex operation. Not specifying full duplex implies half-duplex mode.

The aue driver supports the following media options:

full-duplex
Force full duplex operation. The interface will operate in half duplex mode if this media option is not specified.

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

aue0: 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.
aue0: no memory for rx list
The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring.

acphy(4), arp(4), bmtphy(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), sqphy(4), usb(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)

ADMtek AN986 and ADM8511 data sheets.

The aue device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0. OpenBSD support was added in OpenBSD 2.7.

The aue driver was written by Bill Paul <wpaul@ee.columbia.edu> and ported to OpenBSD by Aaron Campbell <aaron@openbsd.org>.

February 17, 2022 OpenBSD-7.6