Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 21:13:34 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Rod Person" <rod.person@verizon.net>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: New Device inphy0?? Message-ID: <007401c2e6aa$a7d46aa0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <20030309183451.13445f89.rod.person@verizon.net>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Rod Person" <rod.person@verizon.net> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 6:34 PM Subject: New Device inphy0?? > I looked at my dmesg output today and it seems that 4.8-prerelease is now picking up my built in Broadcom Ethernet card. > > I now have this entry in demesg: > > inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus0 > inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > > I tried to switch my ppp.conf to use this device to connect to my DSL. NO LUCK :( > > So I checked LINT and even the MAKEDEV entries and see no such device listed anywhere? Is it possible to use this device? If so how. > > TIA > > Rod The inphy0 device is just one-half of a ethernet device, specifying the physical layer controller (which is often separate from the interface to the system). You should have a network card identified just above this (such as fxp0, bge0, etc.) It is this ethernet device which you should reference in your ppp.conf to enable your PPPoE DSL. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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