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Cc: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>, net@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: how to identify a PHY?
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On 05/12/08 13:45, Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
> Marius Strobl wrote:
>> 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).
>>   
> 
> There's a project for someone in there I'm sure.
> 
> Linux has mii-tool and mii-diag. Whilst we generally don't need all of
> the knobs, sometimes it can be useful to dump and poke PHY registers on
> the MII. src/sys/dev/mii/miibus_if.m contains the newbus interface
> definition for miibus which would be a place to start.

Bruce,

am I correct assuming there's currently no easy way to get that information?

Thanks

Volker