The following reply was made to PR kern/34648; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nino Dehne <ndehne@gmail.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/34648: Kernel panic when using NFS root and configuring an interface that needs firmware
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:38:44 +0200

 On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 10:30:02AM +0000, Elad Efrat wrote:
 >  I attached the patch I sent to Nino for testing.
 
 Hi,
 
 this patch apparently fixes the problem. I can ifconfig ral0 now without
 a panic.
 
 Thanks.
 
 Regards,
 
 ND