AUE(4)

NAME
aue - ADMtek AN986/ADM8511 Pegasus family 10/100 USB Ethernet device

SYNOPSIS
aue* at uhub?
acphy* at mii?
bmtphy* at mii?
sqphy* at mii?

DESCRIPTION
The aue driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the ADMtek AN986 ("Pegasus") and ADM8511 ("Pegasus II") chipsets. This includes the following adapters:

3Com 3c460b
Abocom UFE1000
Abocom DSB650TX
Accton USB320-EC
Accton SpeedStream Ethernet
Admtek Pegasus
Admtek Pegasus II
AEI USB Fast Ethernet
Allied Telesyn AT-USB100
ATEN UC-110T
Belkin F5D5050
Billionton Systems USB100
Billionton Systems USB100EL
Billionton Systems USB100LP
Billionton Systems USBE100
Corega FEther USB-TX
Corega FEther USB-TXS
D-Link DSB-650
D-Link DSB-650TX
D-Link DSB-650TX-PNA
ELCON Systemtechnik Goldpfeil P-LAN
Elecom LD-USB/TX
Elecom LD-USB20
Elecom LD-USBL/TX
Elsa Microlink USB2Ethernet
GIGABYTE GN-BR402W
Hawking UF100
HP HN210E
I/O DATA USB ET/TX
I/O DATA USB ET/TX-S
I/O DATA ETX-US2
Kingston KNU101TX
Laneed LD-USBL/TX
Linksys USB100TX
Linksys USB100H1
Linksys USB10T
Linksys USB10TA
Linksys USB10TX
Logitec LAN-TX/U1H2
Melco Inc. LUA-TX
Melco Inc. LUA2-TX
Microsoft MN110
Mobility EasiDock Ethernet
Netgear FA101
Omnidirectional Control Technology USB TO Ethernet
Siemens SpeedStream USB
Smartbridges smartNIC 2
SMC 2202USB/ETH
SMC 2206USB/ETH
SOHOware NUB100
SOHOware NUB110

The Pegasus family of chipsets contain a 10/100 Ethernet MAC with an MII interface and are designed to work with both Ethernet and HomePNA transceivers. Although the chipsets are designed to interface with 100Mbps peripherals, the USB 1.x standards specify a maximum transfer speed of 12Mbps. Users should therefore not expect to actually achieve 100Mbps speeds with these devices.

The Pegasus chipsets support 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 autoselection of the media type and options. The user can manually override the autoselected mode by adding media options to the appropriate hostname.if(5) file.

10baseT
    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

aue0: 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.

aue0: no memory for rx list The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring.

SEE ALSO
acphy(4), arp(4), bmtphy(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), sqphy(4), usb(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8) ADMtek AN986 and ADM8511 data sheets.

HISTORY
The aue device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0. OpenBSD support was added in OpenBSD 2.7.

AUTHORS
-nosplit The aue driver was written by Bill Paul <wpaul@ee.columbia.edu> and ported to OpenBSD by Aaron Campbell <aaron@openbsd.org>.