ATHEROS AR8012 10/100 Mbps PHY

Rui Paulo rpaulo at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jun 7 10:52:44 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 11:38:13AM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 08:50:51AM +0200, Christian Brueffer wrote:
>  > On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 07:04:55PM +0200, Aymeric MUNTZ wrote:
>  > > Hi guys,
>  > > 
>  > >  
>  > > 
>  > > I got a FBSD 5.4 box which I have to change the motherboard.
>  > > 
>  > > It seams that it doesn't recognize the ATHEROS AR8012 10/100 Mbps PHY
> 
> age(4) supports L1 Gigabit ethernet. It seems that your hardware
> might be Attansic/Atheros L2 fast ethernet which is not yet
> supported by FreeBSD. Supporting L2 wouldn't be hard as both
> OpenBSD/NetBSD already have a driver, lii(4). I don't have a L2
> hardware so porting/writing a L2 driver is beyond scope of my
> ability.

I'm thinking about buying a Eee PC. So, I'll be able to do the port if no one
has done it before.

-- 
Rui Paulo


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