>he is also missing phy for ex* in his kernel config (exphy):

>OUI 0x001018 model 0x0017 rev 6 at ex0 phy 24 not configured
>OUI 0x001018 model 0x0017 rev 6 at ex1 phy 24 not configured
>OUI 0x001018 model 0x0017 rev 6 at ex2 phy 24 not configured

What?s that??? What for is it?