The following reply was made to PR kern/31041; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/31041: wm(4) sometimes can't attach phy, igphy(4): MDIC read timed out
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 16:07:34 +0200

 unfortunatelly, this is still not fixed.  i happened to reboot this
 sunday again, without a cable plugged into the wm(4) interface and the
 PHY failed to attach, again:
 
 NetBSD 4.99.17 (AURORA-SURREALIS) #0: Wed Apr 11 15:44:17 CEST 2007
 
 $NetBSD: if_wm.c,v 1.138 2007/03/27 13:13:49 salo Exp $
 
 Apr 29 10:06:14 aurora-surrealis /netbsd: wm0 at pci1 dev 1 function 0: Intel i82541GI Mobile 1000BASE-T Ethernet, rev. 0
 Apr 29 10:06:14 aurora-surrealis /netbsd: wm0: interrupting at irq 11
 Apr 29 10:06:14 aurora-surrealis /netbsd: wm0: 32-bit 33MHz PCI bus
 Apr 29 10:06:14 aurora-surrealis /netbsd: wm0: 64 word (6 address bits) MicroWire EEPROM
 Apr 29 10:06:14 aurora-surrealis /netbsd: wm0: Ethernet address 00:0a:e4:36:df:b4
 
 > ifconfig -m wm0
 wm0: flags=8842<BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         capabilities=2bf80<TSO4,IP4CSUM_Rx,IP4CSUM_Tx,TCP4CSUM_Rx,TCP4CSUM_Tx,UDP4CSUM_Rx,UDP4CSUM_Tx,TCP6CSUM_Tx,UDP6CSUM_Tx>
         enabled=0
         address: 00:0a:e4:36:df:b4
         media: Ethernet none (none)
         supported Ethernet media:
                 media none
 
 i think it's easier to trigger the issue when the cable is unplugged.
 
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 -- Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@{NetBSD,Xtrmntr,silcnet}.org>   --