On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 03:43:17PM +0200, Massimo Lusetti wrote: > Hi all, > I wish to know actually which chipset this board has on, since the > spec sheet says it has to be a RTL8110S-32 but after seeing the dmesg > output I'm not so sure right now. > > This is from a 4.0-CURRENT from mid of September (14/09) > > re0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "Realtek 8169" rev 0x10: irq 10, address > 00:03:1d:03:97:bd > rgephy0 at re0 phy7: RTL8169S/8110S PHY, rev. 0 > > I cannot read on the chip itself since it is covered by a not removable > heat dissipater
This is because the hardware presents the same number to the kernel for 8169/8169S/8110S. The 8110S is designed to be used on system boards, 8169 is the sort of thing that can be found on pci cards.
