ALE(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    ALE(4)

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 Attan-
     sic 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 <device> media.  For example, ifconfig ale0 media.

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.

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