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Date:      Wed, 07 May 1997 15:51:26 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Postmaster <POSTMASTER@SC.YoungLife.Org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Intel EtherExpress 10/100B (PCI) 
Message-ID:  <199705072251.PAA25578@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 May 1997 15:40:00 PDT." <33710536@SC.YoungLife.Org> 

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>Can someone please help me in resolving the following error:
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>fxp0: warning: unsupported PHY, type=7 addr=1
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>I am using an Intel EtherExpress 10/100B.  I installed FreeBSD 2.2.1 off a 
>cdrom.  I have downloaded the newest if_fxp.c (v 1.21.2.7) and if_fxpreg.h 
>(v 1.2.2.4) and have recompiled the kernel sucessfully.
>
>What am I doing wrong?

   You're using a new card. Intel recently (about 2 months ago) changed to
using a different PHY chip. I need to add support for it in the driver, but
the card should work okay without the special support (although full duplex
might not work and the link0-2 flags won't work).

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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