- 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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Christian Brueffer 2004-08-25 22:39:05 +00:00
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.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd April 20, 2003
.Dd August 25, 2004
.Dt AXE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.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
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.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"