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Date:      Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:18:35 -0700
From:      Ross Penner <rossp@f-m.fm>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB ethernet adapter support
Message-ID:  <1411143515.390521.169497345.3CE343CE@webmail.messagingengine.com>
In-Reply-To: <541C536F.90303@selasky.org>
References:  <1410976691.3893699.168675065.2DDFDD53@webmail.messagingengine.com> <541C536F.90303@selasky.org>

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On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, at 09:01 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On 09/17/14 19:58, Ross Penner wrote:
> > The following is a discussion I had on the freebsd-questions list. I've
> > decided to take the route of buying an adapter that works on FreeBSD 10
> > Release but, on suggestion, I thought I would ask on these lists if
> > there was anywhere I could mail my useless (to me) adapter so support
> > could be added.
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The current CDCE ethernet driver does not support PHY's. The other 
> ethernet drivers, like if_axe, which does USB3.0 aswell, will get you a 
> PHY. Have a look at sys/dev/usb/net in the source tree.
> 
Pardon my ignorance but what is PHY's?

For the sake of those searching in the future, I ended up buying a
TRENDnet TU2-ET100 and it is working fine. I didn't need the USB3.0 (or
actually even have a 3.0 port) but it's what I happened to have.



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