[SDBUG] read/write mii regs in FreeBSD

[J. Cordaro]

To respond to my own message, in case anyone else runs
across this in the future,

There is nothing like ethtool in *BSD.  The way I got
around this was to go into ciphy.c where it reads and
branches based on phy model, and add code to read mii
regs 0-31 and print them. 

I did a make buildkernel and make install kernel and
rebooted.
Then, when I loaded the driver the status registers
would print out.  
Then I used dmesg > mii_data.txt to save it to a text
file.  

This works but the problem is if you want to turn on a
bit for example, you have to rebuild the kernel.  I'm
sure there is a better way to do this, if you have any
ideas please let me know.  

-Jay


--- "J. Cordaro" <oradrocyaj at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Guys,
> 
> My yahoo mail sux, sorry if this is a duplicate.
> I am trying to read/write mii registers in BSD. This
> is simple in linux, I just use ethtool.
> 
> I need more than what ifconfig can provide, I think.
> 
> I need to monitor the status of the autoneg
> registers.
>  I am having an interop issue with a machine.  I
> want
> to see what this machine's autoneg status register
> says after I plug a cable in. I would like to do
> this
> without wiping out the machine and loading linux.
> 
> regards,
> Jay Cordaro
> 
> 
>      
>
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