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NAME

axen — ASIX Electronics AX88179/AX88179A/AX88772D 10/100/1Gb USB Ethernet device

SYNOPSIS

axen* at uhub?
rgephy* at mii?
ukphy* at mii?

DESCRIPTION

The axen driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX Electronics AX88179/AX88179A/AX88772D chipset, including the following:

The AX88772D is a USB 2.0 device which supports both 10 and 100Mbps speeds in either full or half duplex. The AX88179 and AX88179A are USB 3.0 devices, which contain a 10/100/1Gb Ethernet MAC with a GMII/MII interface.

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), ukphy(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 <[email protected]>.