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.Dd May 5, 2009
.Dt ALE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm ale
.Nd Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "ale* at pci?"
.Cd "atphy* at mii?"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for Ethernet interfaces based on the
Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Ethernet chipset, also known as
the Attansic L1E.
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver supports IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload and VLAN
tag insertion and stripping.
.Pp
The following
.Ar media
types are supported:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width autoselect -compact
.It Cm autoselect
Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
.It Cm 10baseT
Set 10Mbps operation.
.It Cm 100baseTX
Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
.It Cm 1000baseT
Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
.El
.Pp
For more information on configuring this device, see
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
To view a list of media types and options supported by the card, try
.Ic ifconfig Fl m Ao Ic device Ac .
For example,
.Ic ifconfig Fl m Ic ale0 .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr arp 4 ,
.Xr atphy 4 ,
.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr netintro 4 ,
.Xr pci 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
device driver first appeared in
.Ox 4.5 .
It was then ported to
.Nx 5.1 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Pyun YongHyeon
for
.Fx
and ported to
.Ox
by
.An Kevin Lo
.Aq kevlo@OpenBSD.org
then ported to
.Nx
by
.An Christoph Egger
.Aq cegger@NetBSD.org
and Kevin Lahey.