From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 13 22:25:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9534837B8FA for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 22:25:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA02822; Sun, 14 May 2000 14:55:38 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 14:55:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: adam palitz Cc: free bsd questions Subject: MII without any PHY (was: Maybe I need a more interesting title for an answer? ...or just more patience?) Message-ID: <20000514145538.P847@freebie.lemis.com> References: <000b01bfbd63$67a2d5c0$abfe1818@socal.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <000b01bfbd63$67a2d5c0$abfe1818@socal.rr.com> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 13 May 2000 at 22:15:22 -0700, adam palitz wrote: > Subject: Maybe I need a more interesting title for an answer? ...or > just more patience? A more interesting subject. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > I am trying to configure my NIC. I have tried manualy altering the > network settings using ifconfig, > and I have also tried to use sysinstall...both ways I have met with failure. > > On startup my kernel gives me this: > > dc0 port ...irq 12 > dc0 ethernet address ... > dc0 MII without any PHY <------------what is this and is it significant? > device_probe_and_attach:dc0 > attach returned 6 Interesting. I haven't seen this one. Unfortunately, the people who know it have probably not bothered to read this message because of the irrelevant subject line. > the device "dc0" is not present in my dev dir, neither is ed0 or anything > else that looks similar to a NIC...Why? > when I use ifconfig dc0 ...it says device isn't found...why? The probe failed. > when I try to run /stand/sysinstall it refuses to run...why? I'm sure it says why. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message