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Re: Purpose of the Internal PHYs for NICs

To: Saad Kadhi <saad.kadhi@neurocom.com>
Subject: Re: Purpose of the Internal PHYs for NICs
From: Jason Wright <jason@thought.net>
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 10:59:47 -0400
Cc: misc@openbsd.org
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At 01 Aug 2001 14:01:04 +0200,
Saad Kadhi wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> Can anyone tell me what are the "internal phys" as shown in the kernel
> and the purpose of these? I looked up the information in the FAQ and
> through man options(4) but to no avail. And since I am having trouble
> with  a RealTek 8139 on a server running OBSD 2.9-STABLE with a custom
> kernel (in which amphy + rlphy are commented)...
> 
Internal PHYsical layer device.  That's the device driver for the part
of the chip that decides whether to run 10 or 100mb/s and/or full/half
duplex.  What problem are you have with 8139?

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