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MII(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    MII(4)

NAME
mii -- IEEE 802.3 Media Independent Interface network bus SYNOPSIS
acphy* at mii? phy ? # Altima AC101 10/100 PHY amhphy* at mii? phy ? # AMD 79c901 PHY (10BASE-T part) bmtphy* at mii? phy ? # Broadcom BCM5201/5202 PHYs brgphy* at mii? phy ? # Broadcom BCM5400/5401 Gig-E PHYs ciphy* at mii? phy ? # Cicada CS8201 Gig-E PHYs dmphy* at mii? phy ? # Davicom DM9101 PHYs exphy* at mii? phy ? # 3Com internal PHYs gentbi* at mii? phy ? # Generic ten-bit 1000BASE-X PHYs glxtphy* at mii? phy ? # Level One LXT-1000 Gig-E PHYs gphyter* at mii? phy ? # NatSemi DP83861 Gig-E PHYs icsphy* at mii? phy ? # Integrated Circuit Systems ICS1890 PHYs ikphy* at mii? phy ? # Intel 82563 PHYs inphy* at mii? phy ? # Intel 82555 PHYs iophy* at mii? phy ? # Intel 82553 PHYs lxtphy* at mii? phy ? # Level One LXT-970 PHYs makphy* at mii? phy ? # Marvel 88E1000 Gig-E PHYs nsphy* at mii? phy ? # NatSemi DP83840 PHYs nsphyter* at mii? phy ? # NatSemi DP83843/DP83815 PHYs pnaphy* at mii? phy ? # Generic HomePNA PHYs qsphy* at mii? phy ? # Quality Semiconductor QS6612 PHYs rgephy* at mii? phy ? # Realtek 8169S/8110S internal PHYs rlphy* at mii? phy ? # Realtek 8139/8201L PHYs sqphy* at mii? phy ? # Seeq 80220/80221/80223/80225 PHYs tlphy* at mii? phy ? # ThunderLAN internal PHYs tqphy* at mii? phy ? # TSC Semiconductor 78Q2120 PHYs ukphy* at mii? phy ? # Generic/unknown PHYs urlphy* at mii? phy ? # Realtek RTL8150L internal PHYs options MIIVERBOSE DESCRIPTION
Media Independent Interface is an IEEE standard serial bus for connecting MACs (network controllers) to PHYs (physical media interfaces). The mii layer allows network device drivers to share support code for various PHY models, and allows unused support for PHYs which are not present in a system to be removed from the kernel. Network device drivers which use the mii layer carry the ``mii'' autoconfiguration attribute. This allows kernel configuration files to sim- ply specify PHYs as described above in the synopsis. The following is an example of the messages displayed when a network interface with an attached PHY is detected by the kernel: epic0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0: SMC EPIC/100 Fast Ethernet epic0: interrupting at kn20aa irq 4 epic0: SMC9432TX, Ethernet address 00:e0:29:07:17:c4 qsphy0 at epic0 phy 3: QS6612 10/100 media interface, rev. 1 qsphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto All PHY drivers display the media types supported by the PHY when it is detected by the kernel. These media types are valid media keywords for use with the ifconfig(8) program. SEE ALSO
acphy(4), amhphy(4), bmtphy(4), brgphy(4), ciphy(4), dmphy(4), exphy(4), gentbi(4), glxtphy(4), gphyter(4), icsphy(4), ifmedia(4), ikphy(4), inphy(4), iophy(4), lxtphy(4), makphy(4), nsphy(4), nsphyter(4), pnaphy(4), qsphy(4), rgephy(4), rlphy(4), sqphy(4), tlphy(4), tqphy(4), ukphy(4), urlphy(4), ifconfig(8) The OUI assignments list can be found at: http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml BSD
October 13, 2006 BSD

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RGEPHY(4)                                                  BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual                                                  RGEPHY(4)

NAME
rgephy -- RealTek RTL8168/8169/8110/8211 series 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet PHY driver SYNOPSIS
To compile all available PHY drivers into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file: device miibus Alternatively, to selectively compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file instead: device mii device rgephy DESCRIPTION
The rgephy driver supports the RealTek RTL8168, RTL8169, RTL8110 and RTL8211 series integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet PHYs. In order to get a list of media types and options supported by a specific instance of the rgephy driver, run ifconfig -m on the instance of its parent MAC driver. Additionally, the rgephy driver supports the following special media option: flag0 When manually setting media type and options via ifconfig(8), the rgephy driver by default also triggers an autonegotiation advertis- ing the selected media. This is done in order to work around hardware issues in certain scenarios. It is believed that this behavior does not cause harm in general but in fact can have an adverse effect in edge cases. In order to manually set the media type and options without also triggering an autonegotiation, the rgephy driver allows to turn this behavior off via the flag0 media option. Note that this special media option will not show up in the output of ifconfig(8), even when set. EXAMPLES
Manually set 100BASE-TX full-duplex without also triggering an autonegotiation: ifconfig re0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex,flag0 SEE ALSO
intro(4), miibus(4), ifconfig(8) BSD January 16, 2011 BSD
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