October 23, 2004 AXE 4

### NAME

axe - ASIX AX88172 USB Ethernet driver

### SYNOPSIS

axe* at uhub? XXphy* at mii?

### HARDWARE

The axe driver supports the following adapters:

Corega FEther USB2-TX
D-Link DUB-E100
Linksys USB 200M
Melco LUA-U2-KTX
Netgear FA120
Sitecom LN029
Systemtalks SGCX2UL

### DESCRIPTION

The axe driver provides support for USB (2.0) Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX AX88172 chip.

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 axe driver supports the following media types:

autoselect
  Enable automatic selection of the media type and options.

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 axe 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).

### SEE ALSO

arp(4), netintro(4), usb(4), ifconfig(8)

### HISTORY

The axe device driver first appeared in FreeBSD and was ported to NetBSD3.0. It replaces the NetBSD uax driver.