RGEPHY(4)

💅 RGEPHY(4) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the RGEPHY(4) page from the Kernel Interfaces Manual — yes, it's the RealTek PHY tea, and we're making it make sense. no cap. 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

rgephy — RealTek RTL8168/8169/8110/8211 series 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet PHY driver ✨

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

okay so if you want all the available PHY drivers compiled into the kernel, put this line in your kernel configuration file:

device miibus

alternatively, if you want to selectively compile this driver into the kernel instead, put these lines in your kernel configuration file:

device mii
device rgephy

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The rgephy driver supports the RealTek RTL8168, RTL8169, RTL8110 and RTL8211 series integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet PHYs. iconic. slay. 👑

To get a list of media types and options supported by a specific instance of the rgephy driver, run ifconfig -m on the instance of its parent MAC driver. periodt. 💅

Additionally, the rgephy driver supports this special media option:

• flag0 — when you manually set media type and options via ifconfig(8), the rgephy driver by default also triggers an autonegotiation advertising the selected media. This is done in order to work around hardware issues in certain scenarios. It is believed that this behavior does not cause harm in general, but in fact can have an adverse effect in edge cases. In order to manually set the media type and options without also triggering an autonegotiation, the rgephy driver allows you to turn this behavior off via the flag0 media option. 🫶

bestie note: this special media option will not show up in the output of ifconfig(8), even when set. 💀

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

Manually set 100BASE-TX full-duplex without also triggering an autonegotiation:

ifconfig re0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex,flag0

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

intro(4), miibus(4), ifconfig(8)

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cute sign-off bestie: source/version Debian, date January 16, 2011, manual RGEPHY(4) — mwah 💋🎀🫶