> Just to clarify, these have been fresh installs of 5.6-release and > 5.6-current. Both bsd.rd and bsd seem not to find the lii interface. > 5.5-release behaves almost the same way, though the link status light > stays on until I try to use dhclient on lii0, both in bsd and bsd.rd. > > Well if I'm looking in the right place. There was a change made after 5.4 that was in 5.5 and 5.6. http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/mii/acphy.c?r1=1.7
If you have the means, you could recompile the kernel without that change and see if that is the problem. Tim.