From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 9 20:46:19 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FE5A37B401 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 20:46:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from toq3-srv.bellnexxia.net (toq3.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2885F43FB1 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 20:46:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from gabby.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.176.5]) by tomts17-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20030310021444.TIEA21076.tomts17-srv.bellnexxia.net@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca>; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 21:14:44 -0500 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by gabby.gsicomp.on.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h2A2BdjC093934; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 21:11:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <007401c2e6aa$a7d46aa0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Rod Person" , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" References: <20030309183451.13445f89.rod.person@verizon.net> Subject: Re: New Device inphy0?? Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 21:13:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rod Person" To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 6:34 PM Subject: New Device inphy0?? > I looked at my dmesg output today and it seems that 4.8-prerelease is now picking up my built in Broadcom Ethernet card. > > I now have this entry in demesg: > > inphy0: on miibus0 > inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > > I tried to switch my ppp.conf to use this device to connect to my DSL. NO LUCK :( > > So I checked LINT and even the MAKEDEV entries and see no such device listed anywhere? Is it possible to use this device? If so how. > > TIA > > Rod The inphy0 device is just one-half of a ethernet device, specifying the physical layer controller (which is often separate from the interface to the system). You should have a network card identified just above this (such as fxp0, bge0, etc.) It is this ethernet device which you should reference in your ppp.conf to enable your PPPoE DSL. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message