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Old 02-20-2008, 08:56 AM
Daniel de Kok
 
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Default Re: New NIC!

On Tue, 31 May 2005 16:02:53 +0300, Mr.Jason wrote:
> Haha! But I think its the different chip: VIA VT6105 Rhine-III
> my dmesg tells me:
> eth0: VIA VT6105 Rhine-III
> eth0: MII PHY


Why not a good Intel card?

> Btw. what an earth is MII PHY?


MII is the Media Independent Interface (IEE 802.3), and is a (serial) bus
that is used to connect MACs to PHYs (physical media interfaces).

-- Daniel
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