kue(4)

kue4

Kawasaki lsi kl5kusb101b usb ethernet driver

Usage

To compile support for the

kue driver into your kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

device uhci device ohci device usb device kue

Alternatively, to load the

kue driver at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

if_kue_load="YES"

Overview

The kue driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Kawasaki LSI KL5KLUSB101B chipset.

The KL5KLUSB101B supports a 128-entry multicast filter, single perfect filter entry for the station address and promiscuous mode. Packets are received and transmitted over separate USB bulk transfer endpoints.

The Kawasaki chipset supports only 10Mbps half-duplex mode, hence there are no ifmedia(4) modes to select.

For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).

Hardware

The kue driver supports Kawasaki LSI KL5KLUSB101B based USB Ethernet adapters including:

  • 3Com 3c19250

  • 3Com 3c460 HomeConnect Ethernet USB Adapter

  • ADS Technologies USB-10BT

  • AOX USB101

  • ATen UC10T

  • Abocom URE 450

  • Corega USB-T

  • D-Link DSB-650C

  • Entrega NET-USB-E45, NET-HUB-3U1E

  • I/O Data USB ETT

  • Kawasaki DU-H3E

  • LinkSys USB10T

  • Netgear EA101

  • Peracom USB Ethernet Adapter

  • SMC 2102USB, 2104USB

Diagnostics

kue%d: watchdog timeout

A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the transmission before a timeout expired.

kue%d: no memory for rx list

The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring.

History

The kue device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0.

Authors

The kue driver was written by Bill Paul ⟨[email protected]⟩.

Bugs

The kue driver does not accumulate Ethernet collisions statistics because the Kawasaki firmware does not appear to maintain any internal statistics.

From freebsd-manpages 6.0-5 in Debian 4.0 (Etch). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.