NAME

       aue — ADMtek AN986 Pegasus USB Ethernet driver

SYNOPSIS

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

             device uhci
             device ohci
             device usb
             device miibus
             device uether
             device aue

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

             if_aue_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

       The aue driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the ADMtek AN986 Pegasus chipset.

       The  LinkSys  USB10T adapters that contain the AN986 Pegasus chipset will operate at 100Base-TX and full-
       duplex.

       The Pegasus contains a 10/100 Ethernet MAC with MII interface and is designed to work with both  Ethernet
       and  HomePNA  transceivers.   Although  designed  to interface with 100Mbps peripherals, the existing USB
       standard specifies a maximum transfer speed of 12Mbps.  Users should therefore  not  expect  to  actually
       achieve 100Mbps speeds with these devices.

       The  Pegasus  supports 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 /etc/rc.conf file.

       10baseT/UTP           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).

HARDWARE

       Adapters supported by the aue driver include:

       •   Abocom UFE1000, DSB650TX_NA
       •   Accton USB320-EC, SpeedStream
       •   ADMtek AN986, AN8511
       •   Billionton USB100, USB100LP, USB100EL, USBE100
       •   Corega Ether FEther USB-T, FEther USB-TX, FEther USB-TXS
       •   D-Link DSB-650, DSB-650TX, DSB-650TX-PNA
       •   Elecom LD-USBL/TX
       •   Elsa Microlink USB2Ethernet
       •   HP hn210e
       •   I-O Data USB ETTX
       •   Kingston KNU101TX
       •   LinkSys USB10T adapters that contain the AN986 Pegasus chipset, USB10TA, USB10TX, USB100TX, USB100H1
       •   MELCO LUA-TX, LUA2-TX
       •   Netgear FA101
       •   Planex UE-200TX
       •   Sandberg USB to Network Link (model number 133-06)
       •   Siemens Speedstream
       •   SmartBridges smartNIC
       •   SMC 2202USB
       •   SOHOware NUB100

DIAGNOSTICS

       aue%d:  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.

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

SEE ALSO

       altq(4), arp(4), miibus(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), ifconfig(8)

       ADMtek AN986 data sheet, http://www.admtek.com.tw.

HISTORY

       The aue device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0.

AUTHORS

       The aue driver was written by Bill Paul <wpaul@ee.columbia.edu>.

Debian                                          November 24, 2015                                         AUE(4)