Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 20:57:46 +1100 From: Andrew Nesbit <alnesbit@optushome.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: "MII without any phy!" error message Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20010218205229.009f2eb0@mail> In-Reply-To: <HNEIIPBNPCOCPHAOFFFKOEMBCBAA.dominic_marks@btinternet.com> References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010218005125.009eb2d0@mail>
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Thanks for the reply Dominic. I tried adjusting settings in the BIOS but that didn't work. I then moved the card to another PCI slot, and then it probed properly *once*. Still didn't provide any network services, though. I remember reading an official bug report in one of the archives during my search for answers... so it could actually be a bug in the vr driver but I don't know for sure. Anyway, I picked up another card today 2nd hand really cheap (Intel based) and so far it works like a dream. Cheers, Andrew At 02:27 PM 17/02/01 +0000, you wrote: Same NIC as I had problems with only a little while ago. In your kernel have you enabled the VIA Rhine chipset *and* the MII Bus? A MAC address of 00:00:00:00:00:00 seems a little odd to me. I had to go into the bios and reset it to manufacturers defaults to get mine to work, although I had a different error to yours and therefore I doubt this is the same problem. I'd check your kernel config options, i think its that though, it can see the card but not get to its interface would suggest to me that perhaps drivers need in NIC communication were not present. Good Luck Dominic -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andrew Nesbit Sent: 17 February 2001 13:59 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: "MII without any phy!" error message I am running 4.2-RELEASE and the NIC I am trying to use is a D-Link 530TX. During device probing when FreeBSD is booting, I get the following: vr0: <VIA VT6102 Rhine II 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe400-0xe4ff mem 0xdf000000-0xdf0000ff irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0 vr0: Ethernet address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 vr0: MII without any phy! and then a bit later: ifconfig: interface vr0 does not exist Thus I cannot get my NIC to work. I have so far been unable to find a solution to this problem. Please help! Thanks. Andrew Nesbit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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