Thanks, I never would have caught that. It's nice to know to real problem. 
I guess I should have read the docs more diligently.

So then it looks like I'll be able to reincarnate this old Windoze beast into 
something useful after all. 

Thanks again.



On Friday 29 June 2001 08:38, you wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:49:51PM -0500, Michael Owens wrote:
> > [...]
> > bash-2.04# ifconfig -a
> > ifconfig -a
> > sip0:
> > flags=fbff<UP,BROADCAST,DEBUG,LOOPBACK,POINTOPOINT,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,NOA
> >RP,PROMISC,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,LINK0,LINK1,LINK2,MULTICAST>
>
> OK, this is the problem; there are way to many flags for an ethernet
> adapter here. Known but from 1.5 for this driver, should be fixed in 1.5.1.
> You can get 1.5.1 sources:
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-1-5/tar_files/src/
>
> Or if you can wait, 1.5.1 should be released soon.
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
> --