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33 .Nd RealTek RTL8168/8169/8110/8211 series 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet PHY driver
35 To compile all available PHY drivers into the kernel,
36 place the following line in your kernel configuration file:
37 .Bd -ragged -offset indent
41 .\"Alternatively, to selectively compile this driver into the kernel,
42 .\"place the following lines in your kernel configuration file instead:
43 .\".Bd -ragged -offset indent
45 .\".Cd "device rgephy"
50 driver supports the RealTek RTL8168, RTL8169, RTL8110 and RTL8211 series
51 integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet PHYs.
53 In order to get a list of media types and options supported by a specific
58 on the instance of its parent MAC driver.
63 .\"driver supports the following special media option:
64 .\".Bl -tag -width ".Cm flag0"
66 .\"When manually setting media type and options via
70 .\"driver by default also triggers an autonegotiation advertising the selected
72 .\"This is done in order to work around hardware issues in certain scenarios.
73 .\"It is believed that this behavior does not cause harm in general but in fact
74 .\"can have an adverse effect in edge cases.
75 .\"In order to manually set the media type and options without also triggering
76 .\"an autonegotiation,
79 .\"driver allows to turn this behavior off via the
84 .\"Note that this special media option will not show up in the output of
88 .\"Manually set 100BASE-TX full-duplex without also triggering an
91 .\".Dl "ifconfig re0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex,flag0"