adding support for new PHY?
Johan A. van Zanten <[email protected]>
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Which mailing list is best for discussions about adding support for a new PHY? I recently bought a couple of Rosewill RC-400 gigabit Ethernet interfaces, hoping they would work with NetBSD because they are based on the Realtek 8169S. They are recognized by 3.1_STABLE on alpha or i386: re0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0: RealTek 8169S Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet re0: interrupting at dec 6600 irq 35 re0: Ethernet address 00:e0:4c:77:79:80 re0: using 512 tx descriptors Unfortunately, i suspect there might be a problem with the cards' PHY, which is matched by the Generic PHY driver: ukphy0 at re0 phy 7: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface I can't get the card to work with my Netgear GS724T gigabit switch, even when i set the media and mediaopts to "Ethernet 1000baseT full-duplex" and set the port accordingly on the switch. So i suspect the problem may be that the ukphy driver doesn't work well with the RC-400's PHY, which is a "TAIMAG IH-002." http://www.rosewill.com/RosewillPhoto/RC400-640.jpg I am not a programmer, but i'm wondering how difficult it would be to try and write a PHY driver for the IH-002. The files for the various PHY drivers are too big. :) -johan