[realtek] RealTek 8201L PHY drivers

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Fri Sep 6 05:57:01 2002


On 5 Sep 2002, John Palmieri wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 11:06, Donald Becker wrote:
> > On 5 Sep 2002, John Palmieri wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi, I have a A7N266-VM Micro ATX board with a RealTek 8201L PHY
> > 
> > A "PHY" is a transceiver, not a NIC.
>
> It looks like the eth card may not be RealTek as I have seen
> motherboards with SiS controllers and the same RealTek 8201L
> transceiver.  They use the SiS900 driver.  Unfortunately Asus does not
> tell me what controller I am using.

The current Realtek PCI NICs have on-chip transceivers, so an external
PHY likely indicates a NIC integrated with the motherboard chipset.

> > > integrated 10/100 ethernet controller.
> > 
> > What is the PCI ID?
> How do I find this?

Run 'cat /proc/pci | more' or 'lspci'.


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