On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, arnuld wrote:
> 2.) "ifconfig -a" gave the following OUTPUT:
> 
> vr0:   flag=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>       address: 00:13:d4:c4:ba:f3
>       media: Ethernet autoselect(100baseTX full-duplex)
>       state: active
> 
> lo0:   flag = 8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 33192
>       inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>       inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>       inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
> 
> 3.) "ifconfig var0" gave this:
> 
> ifconfig:  SIOCGIFFLAGS
> var0: Device not configured

That is a typo. Use "vr0" (not "var0").

I didn't follow the previous emails. But "vr0" appears to be your network 
card. So assign an IP to it. Have a look at the NetBSD Guide (hopefully it 
covers this).