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attempt to standardise the way we specify speeds in our name description (Nd)
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sthen and deraadt argued for unit suffixes for speeds 1Gb+
deraadt also requested Gigabit be standardised to 1Gb

ok sthen deraadt ian benno

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.Dd $Mdocdate: September 8 2021 $
.Dt ALE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm ale
.Nd Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 10/100/1Gb Ethernet device
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "ale* at pci?"
.Cd "atphy* at mii?"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for Ethernet interfaces based on the
Atheros AR8121 Gigabit Ethernet chipset and the AR8113/AR8114
Fast Ethernet chipsets, also known as the Attansic L1E.
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver supports IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload and VLAN
tag insertion and stripping.
.Pp
The following
.Ar media
types are supported:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width autoselect -compact
.It Cm autoselect
Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
.It Cm 10baseT
Set 10Mbps operation.
.It Cm 100baseTX
Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
.It Cm 1000baseT
Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
.El
.Pp
For more information on configuring this device, see
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
To view a list of media types and options supported by the card, try
.Ic ifconfig <device> media .
For example,
.Ic ifconfig ale0 media .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr arp 4 ,
.Xr atphy 4 ,
.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr netintro 4 ,
.Xr pci 4 ,
.Xr hostname.if 5 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
device driver first appeared in
.Ox 4.5 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Pyun YongHyeon
for
.Fx
and ported to
.Ox
by
.An Kevin Lo Aq Mt kevlo@openbsd.org .