NAME

axe — ASIX Electronics AX88172/AX88178/AX88772 10/100/1Gb USB Ethernet device

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

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:

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).

DIAGNOSTICS

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.

SEE ALSO

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

HISTORY

The axe device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 3.6.

AUTHORS

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