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.