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ALE(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual ALE(4)NAMEale -- Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet deviceSYNOPSISale* at pci? atphy* at mii?DESCRIPTIONThe 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 ALSOarp(4), atphy(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), ifconfig(8)HISTORYThe ale device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.5. It was then ported to NetBSD 5.1.AUTHORSThe 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.BSDMay 5, 2009 BSD