Hi Lars, Most of the initialization of the NIC driver focuses on the MAC and the driver need not care much about PHY if the PHY complys well with the IEEE 802.3 specification. Unfortunately, this may not be the case in real world. Sometimes the driver has to deal with the PHY to ensure it works properly. And this is true for nge. So if nge does not work on your motherboard with MCP72/72/78 there might be something to do with PHY.
BTW, ccing to [email protected] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] since it's driver related. --Lucy Lars Tunkrans wrote: > Hi, > > I am probably a novice at this subject. > > I have been looking at the new Motherboards with the Nvidia Nforce > MCP72/73/78 chipsets . > > Apperantly the Network part of this MCP78 chipset is only the MAC > and the motherboard vendor needs to provide a PHY ? > > so from what I can read some motherboards with the MCP78 chipset > comes with a > REALTEK PHY, others comes with an Atheros PHY. > > > So, Now that we have the nvidia Gigabit driver ( nge ) is the > driver dependent on the PHY ? > > and can the tasks and the responsibilities of the MAC and the > PHY be breifely > summarised for us novices ? > > Regards > > //Lars > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > networking-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
