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Re: sk0: no PHY found!

This is a discussion on Re: sk0: no PHY found! within the lucky.openbsd.tech forums, part of the OpenBSD category; --> > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:29:56AM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > At 05:14 PM 3/16/2005 ...


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Old 02-22-2008, 11:19 AM
Theo de Raadt
 
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Default Re: sk0: no PHY found!

> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:29:56AM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> > At 05:14 PM 3/16/2005 +0100, you wrote:
> >
> > >well, the really interesting question is what linux does to the chip
> > >that it behaves like that. I have plenty of marvell-sks and none has
> > >issues like that, but none has ever booted linux of course either.

> >
> > The Linux Knoppix 3.4 seemed to set the chip for an 'autoselect' mode, but
> > when the sk0 driver booted it couldn't find any media. After forcing the

>
> I have the same issue with dual booting Fedora Core 2.
>
> however, the problem goes away if I simply 'poweroff' instead of
> rebooting in linux.


It is our belief that some PC's bios's do not reset the chip correctly.
And that the chip does not reset itself correctly either.

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