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Date:      Wed, 2 Oct 2002 10:19:34 -0500
From:      Jim Rowan <jmr@computing.com>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Guido Van Hoecke <Guido@VanHoecke.org>
Subject:   Re: sis900 : sis0 attach returned 6
Message-ID:  <5B4CA406-D61A-11D6-96EB-003065A913C6@computing.com>
In-Reply-To: <bulk.70759.20021002010811@hub.freebsd.org>

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> From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
> Subject: Re: sis900: sis0 attach returned 6
>
> Guido,
>
> I did some more digging and it appears the bigger problem is that the
> RTL8201 external PHY isn't supported (yet) in FreeBSD.  Patches to support
> this PHY, along with reports of successful testing in numerous
> configurations, are reported in PR kern/30836 (and kern/35691).
>
> This PR has been sitting in GNATS since March - does anyone want to step 
> and
> commit it?  It seems that this chipset is frequently used on motherboards
> with embedded ethernet, so it would be nice to have this supported RSN.

It works for me...  is the RTL8201L different?

This happens to be on 4.7 RC2, but it has worked since 4.6, or shortly 
thereafter, if I recall correctly.  (This machine also has a realtek card 
in it...)


sis0: <SiS 900 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xcfffc000-0xcfffcfff 
irq 12
  at device 3.0 on pci0
sis0: Ethernet address: 00:d0:09:de:34:ee
miibus0: <MII bus> on sis0
rlphy0: <RTL8201L 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xcc00-0xccff mem 
0xcfffbf00-0xcfffbfff ir
q 15 at device 11.0 on pci0
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:50:bf:77:6f:44
miibus1: <MII bus> on rl0
rlphy1: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus1
rlphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto

Jim Rowan
jmr@computing.com


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