Problem with axe driver?

[mefisto]

Greetings all,

I have a USB to RJ-45 adapter with ASIX AX88772B chip, which is correctly recognized, based on the fact that the axe driver is attached. The adapter can be configured via hostname.axe0, and ifconfig show that the configuration is accepted and the status is active.

However, there is no connectivity. The dmesg correctly recognize the adapter and its chip, but also report:

axe0: usb errors on rx: IOERROR

The axe(4) man-page does not list this error under DIAGNOSTIC. How else would I go about diagnosing the problem?

Kindest regards,

M

[jggimi]

See the `debug` parameter of ifconfig(8). This may produce debugging output to your dmesg(8) and to /var/log/messages.

[mefisto]

Hi jggimi,

thank you for your reply.

Unfortunately, neither

# infonfig axe0 debug

nor

# ifconfig axe0 -debug

produces any debugging output in dmesg(8).

In addition, there is no file /var/log/messages to inspect. Should I create it?

Kindest regards,

M

[jggimi]

Ah. Sorry about that. I have just looked through /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/if_axe.c, and can see that there are some limited debug output printf(3) calls. You may have to set debug before establishing your initial network connection.

[mefisto]

Hi jggimi,

thank you, but please do not spend so much time on this.

I am not sure about your advice. As the hostname.if(5) explains, the content of /etc/hostname.axe0 is read and the arguments found there are passed to to ifconfig(8). Since ifconfig(8) accepts the debug parameter, I added it into the file, which now contains

inet XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX YYY.YYY.YYY.YYY debug

wherein the X identifies IP address digits and the Y identifies mask digits. But now the OS prints

ifconfig: debug: bad value

I removed the /etc/hostname.axe0 and entered the ifconfig(8) command from command line, however, again there is no debug information.

BTW, the syslog(3) still complains that file /var/log/messages does not exist.

Kindest regards,

M

[jggimi]

There may not be any debug output, then.

/var/log/messages is part of a standard installation. If missing, you can create it with `# touch /var/log/messages`