ALE(4) | Device Drivers Manual | ALE(4) |
ale
— Atheros
AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device
ale* at pci?
atphy* at mii?
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
10baseT
100baseTX
1000baseT
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
.
arp(4), atphy(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), ifconfig(8)
The ale
device driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 4.5. It was then ported to
NetBSD 5.1.
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.
May 5, 2009 | NetBSD 10.99 |