Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this....
I just got a 3com 3c996B-T with a bcm5701 chip. It doesn't work with a kernel built from 4.5-RC source pulled Friday: the gigabit phy goes unrecognized, gets attached as a ukphy, which (obviously) doesn't support 1000baseTX. Is this expected to work? Its hard to tell from if_bge. I discovered a suitable value for lines for sys/dev/mii/miidevs in the Debian Linux driver: +model xxBROADCOM BCM5701 0x0011 BCM5701 10/100/1000baseTX PHY rebuilt the .h file, and added corresponding lines to the probe routine in bgrphy.c. That gets the builtin 5400-compatible gigabit PHY recognized -- it auto-negotiates with my gigabit switch, and gives the same ttcp same speed as a 5700-- but i still get another 30-odd ukphy devices attached on that miibus instance. >From investigating the Linux driver, I gather there are a few features in these chips which may need workarounds (e.g., the Debian driver includes a new firmware image for some 5701 revs'; and forces master mode in some revs, to avoid a CRC bug. Caveat emptor.) But what'm I doing wrong, to get all the ukphy devices? (The mii code has diverged from the NetBSD code I once worked on; old config, I guess.) Thanks in advance for any answers. A "no, its not expected to work" is fine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
