Ok ladies and Gents..
Here's the story. I downed a copy of the GENERIC 1.4.2_ALPHA kernel. I
installed it as  /netbsd halted the system and shut it off completely.
booted into NetBSD with the new kernel and the exphy0 device was found
BUT.


PING router (192.168.0.3): 56 data bytes

----router PING Statistics----
11 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

ex0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0: 3Com 3c905B-TX 10/100 Ethernet
ex0: interrupting at irq 10
ex0: MAC address 00:10:4b:c7:00:11
exphy0 at ex0 phy 24: 3Com internal media interface
exphy0 at ex0 phy 24: 3Com internal media interface
exphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto

At first if I do not configure the card as the system boots I get
a link light on the hub . But then when I run ifconfig to configure the card
the link light dies. the same thing happens when the system runs
/etc/ifconfig.ex0. Here are some ifconfig ex0's

here's while the card is not configured:

ex0: flags=8822<BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
 media: Ethernet 10baseT
 status: active
 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255

I notice there is no link light .. normal ofcourse.


I run :
ifconfig ex0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up     and I get this:

ex0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
 media: Ethernet 10baseT
 status: active
 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255

There is still no link light on the hub. But ifconifig "says" active.

All these are after a cold boot of the system. The card works without a
blip in linux.

I tried using media auto and media UTP and neither produced an acceptable
result.