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Date:      Tue, 05 Dec 2000 06:58:07 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>
Cc:        "'FreeBSD Hackers mailing list'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Metz, E.T." <E.T.Metz@kpn.com>
Subject:   Re: yet another unsupported PHY in fxp driver 
Message-ID:  <200012051458.GAA23226@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Dec 2000 15:52:20 %2B0100." <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7A88@l04.research.kpn.com> 

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>Say what? I lived under the impression that MAC addresses were unique. Here
>I have three cards that have identical MAC adresses.
>
>Finally, we finish off with:
>
>bpf: fxp0.0 attached
>fxp1: warning: unsupported PHY, type = 0, addr = 0
>bpf: fxp1.0 attached
>fxp2: warning: unsupported PHY, type = 0, addr = 0
>bpf: fxp2.0 attached
>fxp3: warning: unsupported PHY, type = 0, addr = 0
>bpf: fxp3.0 attached
>fxp3: link media DOWN 10Mb / half-duplex
>fxp2: link media DOWN 10Mb / half-duplex
>fxp0: link media DOWN 10Mb / half-duplex
>fxp1: link media DOWN 10Mb / half-duplex
>
>The dmesg is from FreeBSD 2.2.8 (boot -v) by the way, but booting 4.1 yields
>the same results.
>
>Now (finally) my question: how do we get this particular PHY supported? This
>seems to have remained unanswered back in October.

   All of the above is caused by the SEEPROM not being read properly. Since
it doesn't work with 4.1, this probably indicates that you're using an
on-motherboard NIC (Supermicro?). I'm running out the door to the airport,
however, and won't be able to get a fix to you until next week.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com
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