NAME¶
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—
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 aue
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following
line in
loader.conf(5):
DESCRIPTION¶
The
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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
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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
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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
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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
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device driver first appeared in
FreeBSD 4.0.
AUTHORS¶
The
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driver was written by
Bill Paul
⟨wpaul@ee.columbia.edu⟩.