Driver for the ASIX AX88172, AX88172A, AX88178, AX88772, AX88772A, AX88772B USB Ethernet dongle
Syntax:
io-pkt-variant -d asix [option[,option ...]] ... &
where variant is one of v4, v4-hc, or
v6-hc.
Options:
Note:
Use commas, not spaces, to separate the options.
- busnum=0xXX
- The USB bus number.
- devnum=0xXX
- The USB device number.
- did=0xXXXX
- The USB device ID.
- duplex=0|1
- Half (0) or full (1) duplex mode.
The default is automatically detected on supported hardware.
If you specify duplex, specify speed as well;
if duplex alone is specified, it is ignored and both speed and duplex
are autonegotiated.
- iftype=num
- The interface type (from <net/if_types.h>).
The default is IFT_ETHER.
- lan=num
- The LAN number.
The default is 0.
- mac=XXXXXXXXXXXX
- The interface address of the controller.
The default is automatically detected on supported hardware.
- media=num
- The media type (from <hw/nicinfo.h>).
The default is NIC_MEDIA_802_3.
- mru=num
- The maximum receive unit.
The default is 1514.
- mtu=num
- The maximum transmission unit.
The default (1514) is automatically detected on supported hardware.
- nomulticast
- Disable multicast support.
By default, multicast is enabled.
- path="name"
- Connect to the specified USB stack.
The default is /dev/io-usb/io-usb.
- phy=num
- The address of the connected PHY device.
- priority=N
- The priority of the driver's event thread.
The default is 21.
- promiscuous
- Enable the driver to pass all data packets received, regardless of the
address.
By default, promiscuous mode is disabled.
- receive=num
- The number of Rx descriptors.
The default is 5.
- speed=10|100
- The media data rate in megabits/second.
- transmit=num
- The number of Tx descriptors.
The default is 10.
- uptype=name
- The interface name.
The default is en.
- verbose or
verbose=N
- Be verbose.
Specify num for more verbosity (num can be 1-4;
the higher the number, the more detailed the output).
The default is 0.
The output goes to slogger;
invoke sloginfo to view it.
- vid=0xXXXX
- The USB vendor ID.
- wait=num
- The number of seconds to wait for the USB stack.
The default is 60 seconds.
Description:
The devn-asix.so driver controls
the ASIX AX88172, AX88172A, AX88178, AX88772, AX88772A, AX88772B USB Ethernet dongle.
This is a legacy io-net driver;
its interface names are in the form enX, where
X is an integer.
Note:
If the device enumerators (see
enum-devices)
don't recognize your device, try explicitly specifying
the device ID with the
did option when you start the driver.
Some devices support hardware checksums, although some might do so in
only one direction; to determine if your device does, type:
ifconfig enX
and look for the following in the list of supported options:
- ip4csum, ip4csum-rx, ip4csum-tx
- tcp4csum, tcp4csum-rx, tcp4csum-tx
- tcp6csum, tcp6csum-rx, tcp6csum-tx
- udp4csum, udp4csum-rx, udp4csum-tx
- udp6csum, udp6csum-rx, udp6csum-tx
You can then use
ifconfig
to enable or disable whichever of these options your device supports.
Examples:
Start io-pkt-v6-hc using the ASIX driver:
io-pkt-v6-hc -dasix verbose &
ifconfig en0 10.1.0.184
Files:
- /dev/io-net
- The directory where, by default, drivers and protocol modules add entries.
For more information, see the documentation for
io-pkt*.