NAME
ale
- Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device
SYNOPSIS
ale* at pci?
atphy* at mii?
DESCRIPTION
The
ale
driver provides support for Ethernet interfaces based on the
Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Ethernet chipset, also known as
the Attansic L1E.
The
ale
driver supports IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload and VLAN
tag insertion and stripping.
The following
media
types are supported:
- autoselect
-
Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
- 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).
To view a list of media types and options supported by the card, try
ifconfig device<.blm Pp media. >
For example,
ifconfig ale0 media.
SEE ALSO
arp(4),
atphy(4),
ifmedia(4),
intro(4),
netintro(4),
pci(4),
ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
The
ale
device driver first appeared in
OpenBSD4.5.
It was then ported to
NetBSD5.1.
AUTHORS
The
ale
driver was written by
Pyun YongHyeon
for
FreeBSD
and ported to
OpenBSD
by
Kevin Lo
<kevlo@OpenBSD.org>
then ported to
NetBSD
by
Christoph Egger
<cegger@NetBSD.org>
and Kevin Lahey .