The following reply was made to PR kern/33047; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, kern-bug-people@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/33047: fxp NICs are not useable on IBM Netfinity 4000R (no link)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:48:23 -0500

 On Mar 10,  8:45am, timo.schoeler@riscworks.net (timo.schoeler@riscworks.net) wrote:
 -- Subject: kern/33047: fxp NICs are not useable on IBM Netfinity 4000R (no l
 
 | e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.3.6-k2-NAPI
 | e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation
 | e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xfebff000, irq 9, MAC addr 00:06:29:DE:7C:29
 | e100: eth1: e100_probe: addr 0xfebfe000, irq 10, MAC addr 00:06:29:DE:7C:28
 | 
 | ---
 | 
 | NetBSD specific information (gathered via serial console, no typos! :)
 | 
 | *** ifconfig -a output ***
 | 
 | netbsd# ifconfig -a
 | fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
 |         address: 00:06:29:de:87:39
 |         media: Ethernet autoselect (none flowcontrol,rxpause,txpause)
                                       ^^^^
 |         status: no carrier
 |         inet6 fe80::206:29ff:fede:8739%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
 | 
 | fxp0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0: i82559 Ethernet, rev 8
 | fxp0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 18 (irq 10)
 | fxp0: Ethernet address 00:06:29:de:87:39
 | inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 4
 | inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 | fxp1 at pci0 dev 18 function 0: i82559 Ethernet, rev 8
 | fxp1: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 17 (irq 11)
 | fxp1: Ethernet address 00:06:29:de:87:38
 | inphy1 at fxp1 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 4
 | inphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
 
 Is your ifconfig program old? What happens if you try to set the
 media manually?
 
 christos