muge(4)

muge4

Microchip lan78xx usb gigabit ethernet driver

Usage

To load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

if_muge_load="YES"

Overview

The muge device driver provides support for USB Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on Microchip's LAN78xx and LAN7515 chipsets.

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

Hardware

The muge driver supports Microchip USB Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, including:

  • Microchip LAN7800 USB 3.1 Gigabit Ethernet controller with PHY

  • Microchip LAN7850 USB 2.0 Gigabit Ethernet controller with PHY

  • Microchip LAN7515 USB 2 hub and Gigabit Ethernet controller with PHY

Releases

20 releases since FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE; the text changed 9 times.

  1. 12.0
  2. 12.1
  3. 12.2
  4. 12.3
  5. 12.4
  6. 13.0–13.2
  7. 13.3–14.3
  8. 14.4–14.5
  9. 15.0
  10. 15.1–16.0

History

The muge device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 12.0.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.