The
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
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.