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To: "Rod Ebrahimi" <rode@directhost.net>
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Subject: Re: Fxp0 problem 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 Jan 1998 16:22:45 PST."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 18:35:12 -0800
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>    I seem to be recieving a very strange network error... It doesn't seem
>to effect the network at all but it does come up every once and a while:
>
>fxp0: warning: unsupported PHY, type=7,addr=1
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>Something to that sort.
>
>Any suggestions would be great thanks.

   This indicates that you have an older version of the device driver that
doesn't have support for the i82555 PHY chip that Intel is using on later
rev cards. The problem will go away if you upgrade to 2.2.5 or -current.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project