From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 1 20:38:14 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E4F34D95; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 20:38:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from udns.ultimateDNS.NET (ultimatedns.net [209.180.214.225]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A951894F; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 20:38:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from udns.ultimateDNS.NET (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by udns.ultimateDNS.NET (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s31Kf4uF040870; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 13:41:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd-lists@bsdforge.com) Received: (from www@localhost) by udns.ultimateDNS.NET (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id s31KewPi040866; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 13:40:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd-lists@bsdforge.com) Received: from unavailable02.ultimatedns.net ([209.180.214.228]) (UDNSMS authenticated user chrish) by ultimatedns.net with HTTP; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 13:40:58 -0700 (PDT) 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> <20140401065842.GA1364@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <1396384167.81853.210.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> 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" To: "Ian Lepore" User-Agent: UDNSMS/2.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: pyunyh@gmail.com, freebsd-net , freebsd-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 20:38:15 -0000 > On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 13:19 -0700, Chris H wrote: >> [...] >> miibus0: on nfe0 >> rlphy0: PHY 0 on miibus0 >> rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto, auto-flow >> rlphy1: 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 > > >