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
-m ⟨
device⟩. For example,
ifconfig -m ale0.
SEE ALSO
arp(4),
atphy(4),
ifmedia(4),
intro(4),
netintro(4),
pci(4),
ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
The
ale device driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 4.5. It was then ported to
NetBSD 5.1.
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.