Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:12:00 -0400 From: Mark Moellering <mark@msen.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with RealTek 8201 / rlphy Message-ID: <4CAE1B80.3050905@msen.com> In-Reply-To: <4CAE1488.4090503@gmx.de> References: <4CADFA53.2060207@msen.com> <4CAE1488.4090503@gmx.de>
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On 07-Oct-10 2:42 PM, Lokadamus wrote: > Am 07.10.2010 18:50, schrieb Mark Moellering: >> I am installing FreeBSD 8.1 on an MSI wind notebook, which has a >> RealTek 8201 wireless chip. The kernel acknowledges the chip as >> rlphy0 on mii but I have no idea of how to actually configure it. >> It shows up as miibus/rlphy in kldstat and as dev.rlphy.0 >> It does not show up under ifconfig >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> Mark Moellering >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > Have you read this? > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-wireless.html I have. I have no problem setting up wireless interfaces on other computers where there is a known/accepted driver and an ifconfig entry. If I try and create the wlan0 device using "# ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev rlphy0" I get the following # ifconfig : SIOCIFCREATE2: Device not configured I have read through a variety of man pages and I can't figure out how to tell ifconfig there is a device rlphy0 which attaches to sysctl - dev.rlphy.0 I have found an entry under the miibus man: A generic driver has been included for all PHYs that are not handled by a specific driver, this is possible because all 10/100 PHYs implement the same general register set along with their vendor spe- cific register set. but I can find no info on how to use that driver or get it to show up under ifconfig. If I list all interfaces under ifconfig, I just get re0 and lo0 Thanks for the reply. Mark
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