Help with RealTek 8201 / rlphy

[Lokadamus]

  Am 07.10.2010 21:12, schrieb Mark Moellering:
>  On 07-Oct-10 2:42 PM, Lokadamus wrote:
>>  Am 07.10.2010 18:50, schrieb Mark Moellering:
>>>  I am installing FreeBSD 8.1 on an MSI wind notebook, which has a 
>>> RealTek 8201 wireless chip.  The kernel acknowledges the chip as 
>>> rlphy0 on mii but I have no idea of how to actually configure it.
>>> It shows up as miibus/rlphy in kldstat and as dev.rlphy.0
>>> It does not show up under ifconfig
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>> Mark Moellering
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to 
>>> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>>>
>> Have you read this?
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-wireless.html
>     I have.  I have no problem setting up wireless interfaces on other 
> computers where there is a known/accepted driver and an ifconfig entry.
>
> If I try and create the wlan0 device using "# ifconfig wlan0 create 
> wlandev rlphy0" I get the following
> # ifconfig : SIOCIFCREATE2: Device not configured
>
> I have read through a variety of man pages and I can't figure out how 
> to tell ifconfig there is a device rlphy0 which attaches to sysctl - 
> dev.rlphy.0
>
> I have found an entry under the miibus man:
>
> A generic driver has been included for all PHYs that
>      are not handled by a specific driver, this is possible because 
> all 10/100
>      PHYs implement the same general register set along with their 
> vendor spe-
>      cific register set.
>
> but I can find no info on how to use that driver or get it to show up 
> under ifconfig.  If I list all interfaces under ifconfig, I just get 
> re0 and lo0
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Mark
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to 
> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>
Help this?
http://www.listware.net/201008/freebsd-questions/56703-re-realtek-81398201l-ethernet-phy-driver.html