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]
