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AXEN(4)                      Device Drivers Manual                     AXEN(4)

NAME
     axen - ASIX Electronics AX88178a/AX88179 10/100/Gigabit USB Ethernet
     device

SYNOPSIS
     axen*   at uhub? port ?
     rgephy* at mii?

DESCRIPTION
     The axen driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the
     ASIX Electronics AX88178a USB 2.0 and AX88179 USB 3.0 chipsets including
     the following:

           Buffalo LUA4-U3-AGT
           D-Link DUB-1312
           Kurotoshiko GbE-USB3.0
           Kurotoshiko GbE-USB3.0S2
           Logitec LAN-GTJU3
           Logitec LAN-GTJU3H3
           Shanghai Donya DN-84327

     The axen driver supports the following media types:

     autoselect  Enable autoselection of the media type and options (this is
                 the default).  The user can manually override the
                 autoselected mode by adding media options to the appropriate
                 ifconfig.if(5) file.

     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).

DIAGNOSTICS
     See usbnet(4) for diagnostics.

SEE ALSO
     arp(4), mii(4), netintro(4), rgephy(4), usb(4), usbnet(4),
     ifconfig.if(5), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY
     The axen device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 5.4 and in NetBSD 7.0.

AUTHORS
     The axen driver was written by Yojiro UO <yuo@nui.org> for OpenBSD and
     ported to NetBSD by NONAKA Kimihiro <nonaka@NetBSD.org>.

NetBSD 10.99                    August 24, 2019                   NetBSD 10.99