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Significance of physical identifier

Hello, I have a doubt regarding physical identifier of an Ethernet physical IC. What is the importance of their physical identifier. when I compared DP83848C and DP83640 and found not much difference in their registers. While programming, only when these identifiers are valid its starts its actual working. What might be the importance of this identifier?

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  • So either the board can't handle your chip. Or your board requests an IP over DHCP and you have no DHCP server in the network. Or you have configured a fixed IP that your PC doesn't know how to route to. Or just about any number of other possible errors.

    But with the lack of information from you, it isn't so meaningful to make random guesses. We don't even know if your device shows any link lamp activity.

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  • So either the board can't handle your chip. Or your board requests an IP over DHCP and you have no DHCP server in the network. Or you have configured a fixed IP that your PC doesn't know how to route to. Or just about any number of other possible errors.

    But with the lack of information from you, it isn't so meaningful to make random guesses. We don't even know if your device shows any link lamp activity.

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