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axenASIX Electronics AX88179/AX88179A/AX88772D 10/100/1Gb USB Ethernet device

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

The axen driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX Electronics AX88179/AX88179A/AX88772D 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
 
Ugreen CM650-15632
 

The AX88772D is a USB 2.0 device which supports both 10 and 100Mbps speeds in either full or half duplex. The AX88179 and AX88179A are USB 3.0 devices, which contain a 10/100/1Gb Ethernet MAC with a GMII/MII interface.

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).

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

The axen device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 5.4.

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

October 7, 2024 OpenBSD-current