The following reply was made to PR kern/35972; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/35972: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Invalid argument. Media autoselect broken.
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:18:28 +0100

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 02:10:00PM +0000, cosme@no-log.org wrote:
 > >Number:         35972
 > >Category:       kern
 > >Synopsis:       SIOCSIFMEDIA: Invalid argument. Media autoselect broken.
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    kern-bug-people
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar 11 14:10:00 +0000 2007
 > >Originator:     cosme@no-log.org
 > >Release:        NetBSD 3.1
 > >Organization:
 > 	
 > >Environment:
 > 	
 > 	
 > System: NetBSD BSD.main.tld 3.1 NetBSD 3.1 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Oct 31 04:27:07 UTC 2006 builds@b0.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-1-RELEASE/i386/200610302053Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-1-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
 > Architecture: i386
 > Machine: i386
 > >Description:
 > 	Media autoselect for network card on I386 seems broken with NetBSD 3.1_PATCH kernel.
 > 	dmesg shows the following error:
 > 	SIOCSIFMEDIA: Invalid argument: ifconfig IP netmask IP media autoselect
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 	Might not be applicable for every card (?), just switch to media autoselect with a NetBSD 3.1_PATCH kernel (03/11/2007) and reboot.
 
 What kind of adapter are you using (what driver) ?
 I have some systems running 3.1_PATCH and didn't notice this.
 
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