On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 06:30:35PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I have realized that my new motherboard has a built-in network 
> interface, and I'd like to use it as well as the PCI based one I have.
> 
> But, what do I call it when I plumb it with "ifconfig"?

That would depend on what chipset, etc. the built-in interface uses.


> 
> The PCI card I have is identified during boot as rl0, and the built-in 
> as "rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0".

rlphy0 is just part of the rl0 interface, and not a separate interface by
itself.  Reading the miibus(4) manpage might be useful.

> 
> Using "ifconfig rlphy0 plumb" does not work. It says:
> ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE: Invalid argument
> 
> and that's it.
> 
> So, what do I call it? I tried rl1 as well, no cookie.
> 
> /andreas

If it does not show up in the dmesg(8) output it might not be supported, or
the correct driver might not be included in the kernel.

What does 'pciconf -lv' say?


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