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).
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Izumi Tsutsui