From owner-freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 19 16:20:37 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5338DD10; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:20:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.turbocat.net (mail.turbocat.net [IPv6:2a01:4f8:d16:4514::2]) (using TLSv1.1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 15A23A08; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:20:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop015.home.selasky.org (cm-176.74.213.204.customer.telag.net [176.74.213.204]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.turbocat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 32F1D1FE027; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:20:26 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <541C57BF.7080006@selasky.org> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:20:15 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ross Penner , freebsd-usb@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB ethernet adapter support References: <1410976691.3893699.168675065.2DDFDD53@webmail.messagingengine.com> <541C536F.90303@selasky.org> <1411143515.390521.169497345.3CE343CE@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <1411143515.390521.169497345.3CE343CE@webmail.messagingengine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD support for USB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:20:37 -0000 On 09/19/14 18:18, Ross Penner wrote: > On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, at 09:01 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: >> 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. >> > Pardon my ignorance but what is PHY's? > > For the sake of those searching in the future, I ended up buying a > TRENDnet TU2-ET100 and it is working fine. I didn't need the USB3.0 (or > actually even have a 3.0 port) but it's what I happened to have. Hi, A PHY/miibus is the external interface of an ethernet adapter typically. It is what tells you about the line-rate and various options like full duplex, simplex and so on. --HPS