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Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:19:58 +0200
From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To: Volker <volker@vwsoft.com>
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Subject: Re: how to identify a PHY?
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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