Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 13:40:58 -0700 (PDT) From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: "Ian Lepore" <ian@FreeBSD.org> Cc: pyunyh@gmail.com, freebsd-net <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 31 Message-ID: <41917a9e67d0f4519df4b55f3aa6ebe3.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <1396384167.81853.210.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <2598eeb4c68e23df0789e5e3e8f46d76.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> <20140331050002.GC1359@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <c0a800d2a15f205788ed9ce606c00637.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> <20140401065842.GA1364@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <c73ef96319846b3da07db5785f48fb6a.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> <1396384167.81853.210.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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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 > > >
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