Subject: Re: ifmedia on fxp: can ifmedia defeat NWAY and force 10baseT?
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/05/1999 09:59:37
> > would be nice, but...)  Jason, does that sound okay to you?
>
>I'll take a look at this later this week; I am facing similar issues
>with 21143 support in the `tlp' driver (the 21143 has a built-in Nway
>block, as well as MII support .. gack).

hi Jason,

Any progress on the 21143 support? I have a NetGear cardbus card waiting.


>FWIW, the NIC driver won't have anything to do with this.  It will all
>be handled by the PHY drivers.  No changes to the NIC drivers will be
>necessary at all.

Sure, that's what I was trying to say.  It's only cards with builtin
PHYs, but which don't use MII to talk to the PHY (3com 3c59x Vortex?),
that need NIC-driver changes.