ALE(4) | Device Drivers Manual | ALE(4) |
ale
—
ale* at pci?
atphy* at mii?
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
.
ale
device driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 4.5. It was then ported to
NetBSD 5.1.
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 9.4 |