AUE(4) | Kernel Interfaces Manual | AUE(4)

# NAME

aue — ADMtek AN986 and AN8511 Pegasus USB Ethernet driver

# SYNOPSIS

aue* at uhub?
ukphy* at mii?

# HARDWARE

The aue driver supports the following adapters:

@Home USB 10/100
Abocom DSB650TX
Billionton Systems USB100
Compaq HNE-200
Corega FEther USB-TX
Corega FEther USB-TXS
D-Link DSB-650
D-Link DSB-650TX
D-Link DSB-650TX-PNA
I/O DATA USB ET/TX
I/O DATA USB ET/TXS
I/O DATA ETX-US2
Hawking UF100
Kingston KNU101TX
LinkSys USB100TX
LinkSys USB100H1
LinkSys USB10TA
Melco Inc. LU-ATX
Microsoft MN110
SOHOware NUB100
SMC 2202USB
SMC 2206USB/ETH

# DESCRIPTION

The aue driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the ADMtek AN986 Pegasus and AN8511 Pegasus II chipsets.

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 aue driver supports the following media types:

autoselect
  Enable automatic selection of the media type and options. The user can manually override the automatically selected 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 aue 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).

# 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

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

ADMtek AN986 data sheet, http://www.admtek.com.tw.

# HISTORY

The aue device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0, and in NetBSD 1.5.

# AUTHORS

The aue driver was written by Bill Paul <wpaul@ee.columbia.edu>.

September 25, 2010 | NetBSD 6.0