Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:19:58 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Volker <volker@vwsoft.com> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to identify a PHY? Message-ID: <20080512111958.GA95632@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <48281D8F.2090501@vwsoft.com> References: <48281D8F.2090501@vwsoft.com>
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On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:35:59PM +0200, Volker wrote: > Hi! > > >From the bugbusting front, I'm often seeing network related issues with > unknown (new) PHYs. > > Can please somebody explain me how one is able to identify what kind of > PHY interface is build into a system? Does pciconf output provide some > piece of information which leads into getting PHY information? I need to > know that to work with the submitter and get their interfaces running > (or retrieve information for you to work on). > If the system is running the simplest thing in order to identifiy the PHYs is to check the oui= and model= output of `devinfo -v`. Otherwise boot verbose and check the OUI and model output of ukphy(4). Marius
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