Re: USB ethernet adapter support
Hans Petter Selasky <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hardware,gmane.os.freebsd.devel.usb |
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On 09/19/14 18:18, Ross Penner wrote: > 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. Hi, A PHY/miibus is the external interface of an ethernet adapter typically. It is what tells you about the line-rate and various options like full duplex, simplex and so on. --HPS _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"