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.