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Date:      Fri, 13 Oct 2000 14:09:38 -0400
From:      Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: yet another unsupported PHY in fxp driver 
Message-ID:  <5.0.0.25.0.20001013140628.01f42a50@mail.etinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <200010130021.RAA09044@implode.root.com>
References:  <Your message of "Wed, 12 Oct 1988 10:58:34 EDT." <5.0.0.25.0.19881012105604.029b4160@mail.etinc.com>

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>    The primary problems that have resulted in the "unsupported PHY" messages
>in the past year or so have been related to either the format or size of the
>SEEPROM changing. Using generic MII code doesn't fix the problem; the fxp's
>would still not work due to the MAC address being wrong, among other things,
>which is also read from the SEEPROM.
>    This said, I think it is generally the right approach to use a generic
>MII PHY software interface and at some point the driver will likely be updated
>for that. It is low priority, however, since it doesn't solve any problems.

Do you have any info on the "version 8" 82559 part (I assume you have 
access to docs online or otherwise)? New MBs that we just got in have this 
part and the messages have resurfaced.

If  you could point me at what to look for I'll try and tackle it and 
forward the info to you. without docs its a futile effort.

Dennis



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