Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:25:33 -0700 From: Sean O'Neill <av730@osfn.org> To: wpaul@freebsd.org (Bill Paul) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ICS PHY driver? Message-ID: <200401221325.33444.av730@osfn.org> In-Reply-To: <20040122174118.AE3D016A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20040122174118.AE3D016A4CF@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Thursday 22 January 2004 10:41, Bill Paul wrote: > > Hello, > > I was wondering if there are any plans to add the mii/icsphy > > driver to FreeBSD. My motherboard has a builtin ICS1893 > > and i'd like to use it, rather than this PCI card that's giving > > me a lot of trouble. The driver seems to exist in NetBSD and > > OpenBSD. Thanks! > > You have come to the erroneous conclusion that a PHY chip is > equivalent to an ethernet card. The PHY is just one component. > The important part is the MAC chip. However you have failed to > tell us just what motherboard you have, so lacking further > information, there's no way anyone can help you. > > -Bill > I have an MSI K7n2-Delta board with the nForce2 chipset, and finally last night I learned about the nvnet package- now it's working fine, sorry about that.
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