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authorChristian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2004-08-25 22:39:05 +0000
committerChristian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2004-08-25 22:39:05 +0000
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- put the list of supported adapters into a HARDWARE section
- make the Buffalo entry look better - properly capitalize Ethernet and Fast Ethernet - bump document date MFC after: 3 days
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@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd April 20, 2003
+.Dd August 25, 2004
.Dt AXE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -46,25 +46,12 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-driver provides support for USB ethernet adapters based on the ASIX
-Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 chipset, including the following:
-.Pp
-.Bl -bullet -compact
-.It
-Buffalo(MELCO) LUA-U2-KTX
-.It
-D-Link DUBE100
-.It
-LinkSys USB200M
-.It
-Netgear FA120
-.It
-System TALKS Inc. SGC-X2UL
-.El
+driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX
+Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 chipset.
.Pp
The AX88172 is a USB 2.0 device which contains a 10/100
-ethernet MAC with MII interface and is designed to work with both
-ethernet and HomePNA transceivers.
+Ethernet MAC with MII interface and is designed to work with both
+Ethernet and HomePNA transceivers.
The AX88172 will operate with
both USB 1.x and USB 2.0 controllers, however performance with 1.x
controllers will be limited since the USB 1.x standard specifies a
@@ -100,7 +87,7 @@ implies
.Cm half-duplex
mode.
.It Cm 100baseTX
-Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation.
+Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
The
.Cm mediaopt
option can also be used to enable
@@ -125,6 +112,24 @@ half duplex mode if this media option is not specified.
.Pp
For more information on configuring this device, see
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
+.Sh HARDWARE
+The
+.Nm
+driver supports ASIX Electronics AX88172 based USB Ethernet
+adapters including:
+.Pp
+.Bl -bullet -compact
+.It
+Buffalo (Melco Inc.) LUA-U2-KTX
+.It
+D-Link DUBE100
+.It
+LinkSys USB200M
+.It
+Netgear FA120
+.It
+System TALKS Inc. SGC-X2UL
+.El
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It "axe%d: watchdog timeout"