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diff --git a/share/man/man4/axe.4 b/share/man/man4/axe.4 index 69f2aa46f28..181fe3823b0 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/axe.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/axe.4 @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $FreeBSD: /repoman/r/ncvs/src/share/man/man4/axe.4,v 1.3 2003/05/29 21:28:35 ru Exp $ -.\" $OpenBSD: axe.4,v 1.2 2004/04/02 07:19:42 miod Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: axe.4,v 1.3 2004/04/02 08:40:27 jmc Exp $ .\" .Dd April 20, 2003 .Dt AXE 4 @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm -driver provides support for USB ethernet adapters based on the ASIX +driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB 2.0 chipset, including the following: .Pp .Bl -bullet -compact @@ -56,24 +56,25 @@ Netgear FA120 .El .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 performace with 1.x -contollers will be limited since the USB 1.x standard specifies a +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 maximum transfer speed of 12Mbps. Users with USB 1.x controllers should therefore not expect to actually achieve 100Mbps speeds with these devices. .Pp -The AX88172 supports a 64-bit multicast hash table, single perfect -filter entry for the station address, all-multicast mode and promiscuous mode. +The AX88172 supports a 64-bit multicast hash table, +single perfect filter entry for the station address, +all-multicast mode, and promiscuous mode. Packets are received and transmitted over separate USB bulk transfer endpoints. .Pp The .Nm driver supports the following media types: -.Bl -tag -width full-duplex +.Bl -tag -width "autoselect" .It autoselect Enable autoselection of the media type and options (this is the default). The user can manually override the autoselected mode by adding media @@ -83,21 +84,21 @@ file. .It 10baseT Set 10Mbps operation. .It 100baseTX -Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation. +Set 100Mbps (fast Ethernet) operation. .El .Pp The .Tm driver supports the following media options: -.Bl -tag -width full-duplex +.Bl -tag -width "full-duplex" .It full-duplex -Force full duplex operation. +Force full-duplex operation. .It half-duplex Force half-duplex operation. .El .Pp The interface will operate in -half duplex mode if no media option is specified. +half-duplex mode if no media option is specified. .Pp For more information on configuring this device, see .Xr ifconfig 8 . @@ -126,12 +127,12 @@ The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring. The .Nm device driver first appeared in -.Fx 5.0 . +.Ox 3.6 . .Sh AUTHORS The .Nm driver was written by -.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@windriver.com . +.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@windriver.com and ported to .Ox by |