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On 09/17/14 19:58, Ross Penner wrote:
> The following is a discussion I had on the freebsd-questions list. I've
> decided to take the route of buying an adapter that works on FreeBSD 10
> Release but, on suggestion, I thought I would ask on these lists if
> there was anywhere I could mail my useless (to me) adapter so support
> could be added.
>

Hi,

The current CDCE ethernet driver does not support PHY's. The other 
ethernet drivers, like if_axe, which does USB3.0 aswell, will get you a 
PHY. Have a look at sys/dev/usb/net in the source tree.

--HPS