From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 8 6:29:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from guild.plethora.net (guild.plethora.net [205.166.146.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57B1A37B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 06:29:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from seebs@guild.plethora.net) Received: from guild.plethora.net (seebs@localhost.plethora.net [127.0.0.1]) by guild.plethora.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f28ET8214009 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 08:29:09 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200103081429.f28ET8214009@guild.plethora.net> From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) Reply-To: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_fxp status? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Mar 2001 10:58:29 +0100." <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7C92@l04.research.kpn.com> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 08:29:08 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7C92@l04.research.kpn.com>, "Ko ster, K.J." writes: >What does the message "unsupported PHY" mean? There's this gizmo that handles the actual physical network connection; it's called a PHY. It must be very expensive to make, and very cheap to design, because ethernet card vendors go through them in bundles. :) >How would one go about tracking down the properties of the PHY? One would be a large commercial organization capable of signing an NDA. :) >How does Linux/NetBSD/OpenBSD/Windows/Solaris solve this? I can't speak for all of the others; NetBSD may or may not have the PHY in question working. Can someone tell me exactly what it is? I can't leak source (probably), but I might be able to confirm whether or not BSD/OS has it working - and if not, I can ask the guy who does our driver about it, and he may be able to get docs. What PHY exactly is this? When was it first introduced? I can tell you that BSDi support isn't getting a whole lot of requests about it, so I *suspect* it's supported. -s To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message