On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 01:22:51PM -0500, Daniel Lamblin wrote:
> [...]
> 
> Of course why am I even compaining about this here....
> the 3Com 3c905B seems to work well but may not offload as much work as a
> tulip might have:
> 
> NetBSD 1.6 (PM8500wACARD6260w3C905B) #0: Sun Apr 20 04:49:13 EDT 2003
> ex0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0: 3Com 3c905B-TX 10/100 Ethernet (rev. 0x24)
> ex0: interrupting at irq 23
> ex0: MAC address 00:10:4b:6b:65:86
> OUI 0x000000 model 0x0000 rev 0 at ex0 phy 24 not configured
> 
> 
> Oh, I never noticed that; Whats an OUI and should it be configured?

This is the PHY, the chip that interface the core ethernet with the
physical media.
Yes, you need a driver for it; just enable all the phy at mii in the
kernel config, and see which one is attached.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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