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ASIX AX88178 USB 2.0 Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter
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ASIX AX88772 USB 2.0 Fast Ethernet Network Adapter
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ASIX AX88772A USB 2.0 Fast Ethernet Network Adapter
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ASIX AX88760 USB 2.0 MTT HUB and USB 2.0 to Fast Ethernet Combo Controller
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ASIX AX88772B USB 2.0 Fast Ethernet Network Adapter
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ASIX AX88772C USB 2.0 Fast Ethernet Network Adapter
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Driver Compilation & Configuration on the Linux
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This driver has been verified on Linux kernel 2.6.14 and later.
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Prerequisites
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Prepare to build the driver, you need the Linux kernel sources installed on the
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build machine, and make sure that the version of the running kernel must match
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the installed kernel sources. If you don't have the kernel sources, you can get
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it from www.kernel.org or contact to your Linux distributor. If you don't know
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how to do, please refer to KERNEL-HOWTO.
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Note: Please make sure the kernel is built with one of the "Support for
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Host-side, EHCI, OHCI, or UHCI" option support.
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Conditional Compilation Flag
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[AX_FORCE_BUFF_ALIGN]
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Description:
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There are alignment issues of USB buffer in some USB host controllers.
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Turn on this flag if the implementation of your USB host controller
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cannot handle non-double word aligned buffer.
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When turn on this flag, driver will fixup egress packet aligned on double
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word boundary before deliver to USB host controller.
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Setting:
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1 -> Enable TX buffers forced on double word alignment.
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0 -> Disable TX buffers forced on double word alignment.
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Default:
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0
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Getting Start
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1. Extract the compressed driver source file to your template directory by the
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following command:
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[root@localhost template]# tar -xf DRIVER_SOURCE_PACKAGE.tar.bz2
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2. Now, the driver source files should be extracted under the current directory.
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Executing the following command to compile the driver:
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[root@localhost template]# make
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3. If the compilation is well, the asix.ko will be created under the current
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directory.
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4. If you want to use modprobe command to mount the driver, executing the
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following command to install the driver into your Linux:
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[root@localhost template]# make install
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Usage
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1. If you want to load the driver manually, go to the driver directory and
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execute the following commands:
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[root@localhost template]# insmod asix.ko
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2. If you had installed the driver during driver compilation, then you can use
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the following command to load the driver automatically.
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[root@localhost anywhere]# modprobe asix
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If you want to unload the driver, just executing the following command:
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[root@localhost anywhere]# rmmod asix
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Special define
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There is a RX_SKB_COPY preprocessor define in asix.h can solve rx_throttle problem
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in some version of 3.4 Linux kernel. Removing the comment before the define can enable
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this feature.
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