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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 13:40:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 31
From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>
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> On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 13:19 -0700, Chris H wrote:
>> [...]
>> miibus0: <MII bus> on nfe0
>> rlphy0: <RTL8201L 10/100 media interface> PHY 0 on miibus0
>> rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto, auto-flow
>> rlphy1: <RTL8201L 10/100 media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
> [...]---big-snip--8<---
>> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 1
>>
>> As you can see, it looks much the same. I have no idea what
>> I should do to better inform the driver/kernel how to better
>> handle it. Or is it the driver, itself?
>>
>> Thank you again, for your thoughtful response.
>>
>> --Chris
>>
>
> I think the way to fix a phy that responds at all addresses is to set a
> hint in loader.conf masking out the ones that aren't real, like so:
>
>  hint.miibus.0.phymask="1"
>
> You might be able to set ="0x00000001" to make it more clear it's a
> bitmask, but I'm not sure of that.

Thank you very much for the hint. I'll give it a shot.
Any idea why this is happening? I have 4 other MB's using the Nvidia
chipset, and the nfe(4) driver. But they don't respond this way.

Thank you again, for your helpful reply.
I'll report back with my findings.

--Chris

>
> -- Ian
>
>
>