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

[Chris H]

> 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.

--Chris

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