(I tried this on NetBSD-help, to no avail. Perhaps someone on this list can
help.)

I have just installed NetBSD 1.5.2 onto a Sony Vaio FXA32 notebook computer
and I cannot get the network interface working.

Every time I start sysinst and try to configure my network adapter, I get a
"rtk0: watdchdog timeout" error message. This happens after I instruct the
installer to configure the network for DHCP.

I checked the supported hardware page and the Realtek 8139 chip that I have
is supported. My dmesg output (below) also indicates that the card has been
successfully initialized.

This causes a host of difficulties. Without network access, I cannot use
pkgsrc in the traditional manner. I can manually copy the tar.gz files into
my distfiles directory. This is a slow process because I need to reboot into
WindowsXP and download into a shared data partition (mounted as /mnt/data in
netBSD) and then reboot back into NetBSD to continue. 

I would like to know the process and tools needed to resolve this problem. I
am a programmer and am not afraid of gdb or other programming tools,
although I am new to Unix and NetBSD. If you could point me to some
documentation about this problem (I still have not found any, but I am still
looking) and any solutions that might help, I would appreciate it.

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NetBSD 1.5.2 (GENERIC) #3: Sat Aug 18 23:37:05 CEST 2001
he@hamster.urc.uninett.no:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: AMD K7 (Athlon) (686-class), 900.08 MHz
total memory = 126 MB
avail memory = 112 MB
using 1645 buffers containing 6580 KB of memory
BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xfd6a0
mainbus0 (root)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: VIA Technologies product 0x0305 (rev. 0x03)
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: VIA Technologies product 0x8305 (rev. 0x00)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: ATI Technologies Mach64 LM (rev. 0x64)
wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0
pcib0: VIA Technologies VT82C686A (Apollo KX133) PCI-ISA Bridge (rev. 0x42)
pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1: VIA Technologies VT82C686A (Apollo KX133)
ATA100 controller
pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
pciide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <TOSHIBA MK4018GAP>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector pio transfers, lba addressing
wd0: 38154 MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 78140160 sectors
wd0: 32-bit data port
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5
pciide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (using DMA data
transfers)
pciide0: secondary channel configured to compatibility mode
atapibus0 at pciide0 channel 1
cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <QSI DVD-ROM SDR-081, , ESC9> type 5 cdrom
removable
cd0: 32-bit data port
cd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2
pciide0: secondary channel interrupting at irq 15
cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (using DMA data
transfers)
uhci0 at pci0 dev 7 function 2: VIA Technologies VT83C572 USB Controller
(rev. 0x1a)
uhci0: interrupting at irq 9
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: VIA Technologie UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1 at pci0 dev 7 function 3: VIA Technologies VT83C572 USB Controller
(rev. 0x1a)
uhci1: interrupting at irq 9
usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: VIA Technologie UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
VIA Technologies VT82C686A SMBus Controller (ISA bridge, revision 0x40) at
pci0 dev 7 function 4 not configured
auvia0 at pci0 dev 7 function 5: VIA VT82C686A AC'97 Audio (rev 0x50)
auvia0: interrupting at irq 5
auvia0: ADS72 codec; headphone, Analog Devices Phat Stereo
audio0 at auvia0: full duplex, mmap, independent
VIA Technologies VT82C686A MC-97 Modem Controller (miscellaneous
communications, revision 0x30) at pci0 dev 7 function 6 not configured
Texas Instruments PCI1420 PCI-CardBus Bridge (CardBus bridge) at pci0 dev 10
function 0 not configured
Texas Instruments PCI1420 PCI-CardBus Bridge (CardBus bridge) at pci0 dev 10
function 1 not configured
Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 OHCI IEEE 1394 Host Controller (Firewire serial
bus, interface 0x10) at pci0 dev 14 function 0 not configured
rtk0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0: RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX
rtk0: interrupting at irq 10
rtk0: Ethernet address 08:00:46:2f:5d:0b
ukphy0 at rtk0 phy 7: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
ukphy0: OUI 0x000000, model 0x0000, rev. 0
ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
isa0 at pcib0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37b irq 7
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: PC speaker
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: ISA Plug 'n Play device support
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
pcic0 at isa0 port 0x3e0-0x3e1 iomem 0xd0000-0xdffff
pcic0: controller 0 (Intel 82365SL Revision 1) has sockets A and B
pcic0: controller 1 (Intel 82365SL Revision 1) has no sockets
pcmcia0 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 0
pcmcia1 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 1
isapnp0: no ISA Plug 'n Play devices found
biomask eb4d netmask ef4d ttymask ffcf
pcic0: controller 0 detecting irqs with mask 0xdeb8:..3..11
pcic0: using irq 3 for socket events
boot device: wd0
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
root file system type: ffs
wsdisplay0: screen 1 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 2 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 3 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 4 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0




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