AXEN(4) - Device Drivers Manual #

AXEN(4) - Device Drivers Manual

NAME #

axen - ASIX Electronics AX88179/AX88179A 10/100/1Gb USB Ethernet device

SYNOPSIS #

axen* at uhub? rgephy* at mii? ukphy* at mii?

DESCRIPTION #

The axen driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX Electronics AX88179/AX88179A USB 3.0 chipset, including the following:

D-Link DUB-1312

Kuroutoshikou GbE-USB3.0

Logitec LAN-GTJU3

Sitecom LN-032

StarTech USB31000S

TP-LINK UE300C v2

TP-Link UE306

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 hostname.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).

SEE ALSO #

arp(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), rgephy(4), ukphy(4), usb(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY #

The axen device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 5.4.

AUTHORS #

The axen driver was written by Yojiro UO <yuo@nui.org>.

OpenBSD 7.5 - January 4, 2024