May 5, 2009 ALE 4

### NAME

ale - Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device

### SYNOPSIS

ale* at pci? atphy* at mii?

### DESCRIPTION

The ale driver provides support for Ethernet interfaces based on the Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Ethernet chipset, also known as the Attansic L1E.

The ale driver supports IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload and VLAN tag insertion and stripping.

The following media types are supported:

autoselect
  Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
10baseT
  Set 10Mbps operation.
100baseTX
  Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
1000baseT
  Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.

For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8). To view a list of media types and options supported by the card, try ifconfig device<.blm Pp media. > For example, ifconfig ale0 media.

### SEE ALSO

arp(4), atphy(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), ifconfig(8)

### HISTORY

The ale device driver first appeared in OpenBSD4.5. It was then ported to NetBSD5.1.

### AUTHORS

The ale driver was written by Pyun YongHyeon for FreeBSD and ported to OpenBSD by Kevin Lo <kevlo@OpenBSD.org> then ported to NetBSD by Christoph Egger <cegger@NetBSD.org> and Kevin Lahey .