`devnp-axe.so`

Driver for USB (2.0) Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX AX88172 chip

Syntax:

io-pkt-variant -d axe ... &

where variant is one of v4, v4-hc, or v6-hc.

Description:

The devnp-axe.so driver supports USB (2.0) Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX AX88172 chip. This is a ported NetBSD driver; its interface names are in the form axeX, where X is an integer.

The version of this driver that we ship is compiled for x86 only. If you want to use it on other platforms, download the source code for it from Foundry27.
The USB-Ethernet dongle sometimes drops packets when used on slow systems or with UHCI. If you encounter problems with this driver, use the legacy devn-asix.so driver instead.

The chip contains a 10/100 Ethernet MAC with MII interface and is designed to work with both Ethernet and HomePNA transceivers. The chip also supports USB 2.0, thereby accommodating 100 Mb/s data rates.

The devnp-axe.so driver supports the following media types:

autoselect: Enable automatic selection of the media type and options.
10baseT/UTP: Set 10Mbps operation. You can also use the mediaopt option to enable full-duplex operation. Not specifying full duplex implies half-duplex mode.
100baseTX: Set 100Mbps (fast Ethernet) operation. You can also use the mediaopt option to enable full-duplex operation. Not specifying full duplex implies half-duplex mode.

The devnp-axe.so driver supports the following media options:

full-duplex: Force full-duplex operation. The interface operates in half-duplex mode if you don't specify this media option.

For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig.

Native io-pkt and ported NetBSD drivers don't put entries into the /dev/io-net namespace, so a waitfor command for such an entry won't work properly in buildfiles or scripts. Use if_up -p instead; for example, instead of waitfor /dev/io-net/axe0, use if_up -p axe0.

`devnp-axe.so`

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