From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 13 11:10:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0A1337B502 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:10:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dbsys.etinc.com (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00963; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 14:05:39 GMT (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20001013140628.01f42a50@mail.etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 14:09:38 -0400 To: dg@root.com From: Dennis Subject: Re: yet another unsupported PHY in fxp driver Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200010130021.RAA09044@implode.root.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message