I continue to bang my head against this Dell whose 'native' OS is Home
XP. I now have NetBSD-3.1 booting from the machine's second hard
drive.

1. The onboard nic is a tlp.

2. It will not work with netbsd booted.

3. It runs fine with the windows OS booted.

4. Same static ip data for both OS's.

5. If I boot from a NetBSD-3.1 release CD, sysinst cannot bring up a connection.

6. The second hard drive netbsd install now boots, but it cannot make
the nic work DESPITE the fact that ifconfig says it is up and -- I
think -- 'netstat -rn' says the routes are ok. Are they?

Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface
default            192.168.1.60       UGS         0        1      -  tlp0
127/8              127.0.0.1          UGRS        0        0  33192  lo0
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          1        0  33192  lo0
192.168.1/24       link#1             UC          1        0      -  tlp0
192.168.1.60       link#1             UHLc        1        0      -  tlp0

Here's ifconfig -a

tlp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	address: 00:08:a1:05:24:6b
	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
	status: active
	inet 192.168.1.80 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
	inet6 fe80::208:a1ff:fe05:246b%tlp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
lo0: flags=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

dmesg is attached.

I'd love to get this thing working but it's driving me nuts. No
piratical associations intended...

Best as per usual,

-- 
No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am
not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet looney merely
because I have a pet halibut?