From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <459BF56F.4060506@free.fr> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 19:26:55 +0100 From: Anel Philippe User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] vgbe: no phy found References: <0605689e4d9a89af3417f4ace3cd2eb4@hamnavoe.com> <459BF4AE.9020306@free.fr> In-Reply-To: <459BF4AE.9020306@free.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: fcf26c2e-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I think we can also simply enhance mii.c source in order to handle such=20 thing. Indeed such phys can be used with other network chips. Regards, Phil. Anel Philippe a =E9crit : > Hello Richard, > > I encountered such problem once, when I worked on this driver, but i= t > disappeared after I've booted to FreeBSD. I think the phy initializatio= n > code I wrote needs to be enhanced. Indeed it seems (from the FreeBSD > sources) that some phys are bugged and need to be inited with special > sequence. I would suggest you to check first if your board has such phy= . > > Regards, > Phil. > > Richard Miller a =E9crit : >> While booting I get this sequence of messages: >> >> vgbe: miir timeout >> vgbe: no phy found >> #l1: vgbe: 1000Mbps port 0xD400 irq 5: 00e08155866a >> >> The last line implies that this interface has been configured, but >> when I attempt to send packets on it, no interrupt is received. So >> I suspect the "missing" phy is fatal. >> >> Should ethervgbe abort the pnp sequence when no phy is found, as >> for example ethervt6102 does? >> >> Is there anything I can try in order to get this interface working? >> It's a built-in interface on a VIA VT310 board. >> >> >> >> =20 > > >