I now installed 3.0_RC5 and it works fine (even though I cannot find
packages anywhere - only after release?), network and all.
It now says phy 8.

I think I'll just wait for 3.0 to become final. Question is whether big
efforts should be made for 2.1 with 3.0 just ante portas.

cheers,
-Christian

On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 09:47:02PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> 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