AXGE(4)

NAME
axge - ASIX Electronics AX88178A/179/179A USB Gigabit Ethernet driver

SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

device xhci
device ehci
device uhci
device ohci
device usb
device miibus
device uether
device axge

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

    if_axge_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION
The axge driver provides support for USB Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX Electronics AX88179/AX88179A USB 3.0 and AX88178A USB 2.0 chipsets.

The AX88179, AX88179A and AX88178A contain a 10/100/1000 Ethernet MAC with a GMII interface for interfacing with the Gigabit Ethernet PHY.

These devices will operate with both USB 1.x and USB 2.0 controllers, and the AX88179/AX88179A will operate with USB 3.0 controllers. Packets are received and transmitted over separate USB bulk transfer endpoints.

The axge 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 rc.conf(5).

10baseT/UTP
    Set 10Mbps operation. The ifconfig(8) mediaopt option can also be used to select either full-duplex or half-duplex modes.

100baseTX
    Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. The ifconfig(8) mediaopt option can also be used to select either full-duplex or half-duplex modes.

1000baseT
    Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation (AX88178 only). The ifconfig(8) mediaopt option can also be used to select either full-duplex or half-duplex modes.

The axge driver supports the following media options:

full-duplex
    Force full duplex operation.

half-duplex
    Force half duplex operation.

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

HARDWARE
The axge driver supports the following USB Gigabit Ethernet controllers:

•   ASIX Electronics AX88179A
•   ASIX Electronics AX88179
•   ASIX Electronics AX88178A

SEE ALSO
altq(4), arp(4), miibus(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), rgephy(4), vlan(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY
The axge device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 10.1.

AUTHORS
-nosplit The axge driver was written by Kevin Lo <kevlo@FreeBSD.org> and Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org>. This manual page was adapted by Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org> from the axe(4) manual page.