RTL8201BL PHY Gigabit ethernet

[Lowell Gilbert]

Mervin McDougall <mcd_advisory at yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi, 
>   I recently got my hands on an EPoX AMD 64
> motherboard which has an integrated ethernet card. The
> chipset of the card is RTL8201BL PHY. I have read
> through the release notes for freebsd 6.0 and found
> nothing on this chipset. I was wondering whether it
> would be possible to still make use of the card
> through NDIS wrappers.

A quick look at the specs makes me think that the RTL8201BL is *only*
a PHY.  Assuming I'm right, whether the board would be supported would
depend on the MAC.

But since you've already got it, the easy thing to do is try it and
see if it's recongized.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/