Re: sk0: no PHY found!

[Okan Demirmen <okan_(_at_)_demirmen_(_dot_)_com>]

On Wed 2005.03.16 at 17:42 +0100, Henning Brauer wrote:
> * L. V. Lammert <lvl_(_at_)_omnitec_(_dot_)_net> [2005-03-16 17:33]:
> > At 05:14 PM 3/16/2005 +0100, you wrote:
> > 
> > >well, the really interesting question is what linux does to the chip
> > >that it behaves like that. I have plenty of marvell-sks and none has
> > >issues like that, but none has ever booted linux of course either.
> > 
> > The Linux Knoppix 3.4 seemed to set the chip for an 'autoselect' mode, but 
> > when the sk0 driver booted it couldn't find any media. After forcing the 
> > Linux driver to a specific media (10/100), everything worked fine until the 
> > port started locking up.
> > 
> > Apparently there is an issue with the sk driver and ASUS MBs, but since 
> > adding a NIC is actually a decent solution (less than $10), it didn't seem 
> > worth spending the time to investigate.
> 
> I have plenty of asus mainboards with onboard sks and none has this 
> issue (again, never tortured them with linux either).
> 
> it is worth investigating.

so i've never booted anything but OpenBSD on this motherboard...i've
yet to download/boot linux knoppix or any linux, but might as well
to see what happens...( though openbsd will go it no matter what :)

however, looking through archives on netbsd and freebsd, this has been
seen before. i haven't found a patch that works for netbsd, and there
is some mongo patch for freebsd, which seems to do far more. i'll start
digging more and report back.

thanks.

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