I've only seen part of this thread so I may be going over some
stuff already mentioned.

I'm guessing the machine isn't a plug & pray compatible system.

What does it show when booting up? Does it say the network card
is not configured for some reason?

I'm not sure about the boot kernel, but I see these two entries for
EtherExpress cards. I'm not sure about these cards, but you should
be able to set the port and baseio address either with jumpers or
through software which comes with the card. Unless the card matches
what the kernel is looking, it wont find it.


ix0     at isa? port 0x300 irq 10               # EtherExpress/16
iy0     at isa? port 0x360 irq ?                # EtherExpress PRO 10 ISA

As for the 3Com cards, EtherLink isn't listed but I can list those 3C
cards that are in GENERIC.


ec0     at isa? port 0x250 iomem 0xd8000 irq 9  # 3Com 3c503 Ethernet
eg0     at isa? port 0x280 irq 9                # 3C505 ethernet cards
el0     at isa? port 0x300 irq 9                # 3C501 ethernet cards
ep*     at isa? port ? irq ?                    # 3C509 ethernet cards
ef0     at isa? port 0x360 iomem 0xd0000 irq 7  # 3C507

Hope that helps a little.

Regards
Nigel



On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 01:59:34PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> 	Have you tried with each network card on its own?
> 	Also - are the card spicked up ny any other OS (maybe test in
> 	another box)
> 
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> 
> 
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, tester 777 wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to get NetBSD 1.5 on a 486/DX 50 via FTP install over the lan
> > from another box that's sharing the CD (via FTP).  I have no way of
> > installing a cdrom drive in the target 486 box which would seem to leave me
> > only with some sort of remote install.
> >
> > The motherboard has no pci bus of course and 7 isa slots.   All are filled.
> > 1st slot contains a promise IDE controller which is connecting a WD-Caviar
> > 162meg drive and a Samsung 520meg.  The next slot contains a 1meg trident
> > VGA video card.  The rest are filled with the remaining 10megabit Ethernet
> > NICs i could come up with.  (2 intel EtherExpress, one nameless card, and 2
> > 3com EtherLink II cards [rev A and E] )
> >
> > I boot from floppy and the drives partition fine.  Once, at packet
> > installation however, selecting ftp renders an error indication:
> >
> > "I can not find any network interfaces for use by NetBSD.  You will be
> > returned to the previous menu. "
> >
> > Is there any way to get NetBSD to detect and utilize any of these cards for
> > install?  i've plugged them all seperately into the Ethernet switch and all
> > produce a link light.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Brad
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