miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 31

[Yonghyeon PYUN]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 05:53:51PM -0700, Chris H wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 01:40:58PM -0700, Chris H wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 13:19 -0700, Chris H wrote:
> >> >> [...]
> >> >> miibus0: <MII bus> on nfe0
> >> >> rlphy0: <RTL8201L 10/100 media interface> PHY 0 on miibus0
> >> >> rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto, auto-flow
> >> >> rlphy1: <RTL8201L 10/100 media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
> >> > [...]---big-snip--8<---
> >> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 1
> >> >>
> >> >> As you can see, it looks much the same. I have no idea what
> >> >> I should do to better inform the driver/kernel how to better
> >> >> handle it. Or is it the driver, itself?
> >> >>
> >> >> Thank you again, for your thoughtful response.
> >> >>
> >> >> --Chris
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > I think the way to fix a phy that responds at all addresses is to set a
> >> > hint in loader.conf masking out the ones that aren't real, like so:
> >> >
> >> >  hint.miibus.0.phymask="1"
> >> >
> >> > You might be able to set ="0x00000001" to make it more clear it's a
> >> > bitmask, but I'm not sure of that.
> >>
> >> Thank you very much for the hint. I'll give it a shot.
> >> Any idea why this is happening? I have 4 other MB's using the Nvidia
> >> chipset, and the nfe(4) driver. But they don't respond this way.
> >>
> >
> > If some nfe(4) variants badly behave in probing stage, this should
> > be handled by driver.  We already have too many hints and tunables
> > and I don't think most users know that.  In addition, adding
> > additional NIC may change miibus instance number.
> >
> > Could you show me the output of 'kenv | grep smbios'?
> Yes, of course.
> 
> Here it is:
> 
> smbios.bios.reldate="11/22/2010"
> smbios.bios.vendor="American Megatrends Inc."
> smbios.bios.version="V2.7"
> smbios.chassis.maker="MSI"
> smbios.chassis.serial="To Be Filled By O.E.M."
> smbios.chassis.tag="To Be Filled By O.E.M."
> smbios.chassis.version="2.0"
> smbios.memory.enabled="2097152"
> smbios.planar.maker="MSI"
> smbios.planar.product="K9N6PGM2-V2 (MS-7309)"
> smbios.planar.serial="To be filled by O.E.M."
> smbios.planar.version="2.0"
> smbios.socket.enabled="1"
> smbios.socket.populated="1"
> smbios.system.maker="MSI"
> smbios.system.product="MS-7309"
> smbios.system.serial="To Be Filled By O.E.M."
> smbios.system.uuid="00000000-0000-0000-0000-406186cd4497"
> smbios.system.version="2.0"
> smbios.version="2.6"
> 
> Hope this helps, and thank you for all your time, and trouble.
> 

Thanks for the info. Try attached patch and let me know how it
works.  Make sure to remove the hint(hint.miibus.0.phymask="1")
set in loader.conf before testing it.

> --Chris
> 
> >
> 
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