The following reply was made to PR port-sgimips/32160; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org,
	herzog@phys.ethz.ch, tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp
Subject: Re: port-sgimips/32160: mec0 network adapter on SGI O2 10k not working
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 21:47:02 +0900

 In article <20051204105501.BC1A463B884@narn.netbsd.org>
 daduke@daduke.org wrote:
 
 >  >  According to several posts of dmesg, it should be at mec0 phy 8,
 >  >  and it shouldn't have 100baseT4.
 >  with phy we are referring to the physical interface, right? If it were
 >  connected to the wrong phy then I wonder why once or twice single
 >  packets made it...
 
 mii(4) is used for connecting network controllers to physical media
 interfaces. Maybe the PHY is initialized somehow (but incomplete)
 by the firmware?
 
 >  >  Or could you try the attached patch?
 >  can you recommend some howto or something on how to get started with BSD
 >  kernel compilation?
 
 Please refer docs under www.NetBSD.org:
 
 How to get NetBSD:
 http://www.NetBSD.org/Releases/
 
 NetBSD release glossary and graphs
 http://www.NetBSD.org/Releases/release-map.html
 
 Obtaining the sources
 http://www.NetBSD.org/guide/en/chap-fetch.html
 
 Crosscompiling NetBSD with build.sh:
 http://www.NetBSD.org/guide/en/chap-build.html
 etc.
 
 You could try netbsd-2 or netbsd-3 branches (or even -current).
 ---
 Izumi Tsutsui