NAME

       axge — ASIX Electronics AX88178A/AX88179 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
       USB 3.0 and AX88178A USB 2.0 chipsets.

       The AX88179 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 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).

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

       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.

Debian                                          November 24, 2015                                        AXGE(4)