*) you may get better help posting to netbsd-help@netbsd.org

*) please include
	*) the names of the kernels you are booting on install and after
	install (i.e., INSTALL_LAPTOP, GENERIC_LAPTOP, etc.)
	*) the dmesg from each.

-lava

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 @ 7:58am (+0300), Arto Huusko wrote:

AH>
AH> Hi,
AH>
AH> I yesterday got a Compaq Armada 1750 laptop, which came with
AH> 3Com 3c589 PCMCIA card. After the Windows installation was
AH> wiped, I installed NetBSD 1.6 beta on it.
AH>
AH> I booted with 1.6B1 disks and installed 1.6B1 userland
AH> and slightly newer kernel on the thing, over ftp, and then
AH> rebooted.
AH>
AH> No go, ep1 was recognized and configured and there were no
AH> error messages, but still, ep1 just would not work at all:
AH> no incoming traffic, no outgoing traffic. And nothing
AH> got reported.
AH>
AH> I spent many hours compiling kernels on my other machine
AH> and rebooting with install disks (where network did work,
AH> since I installed over network) to ftp the kernel to the
AH> laptop. Nothing worked.
AH>
AH> Finally I realised to try booting one of my kernels in
AH> single-user, and lo and behold, network worked. After
AH> some tweaking, it became apparent that the cause of
AH> the network to stop working was this:
AH>
AH>  ttyflags -a
AH>
AH> Why, I do not know. I edited my "ttys" file (which was
AH> the standard that got installed) and removed everything
AH> except /dev/console and wscons (/dev/ttyE*) and rebooted.
AH> And there it was, networking worked in multiuser. I
AH> didn't spend more time trying to figure out what makes
AH> networking fail in /etc/ttys, but if someone knows,
AH> I'd like to know.
AH>
AH> --
AH> arto
AH>

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