Re: Intel 82579LM Issue

[John Halfpenny <jsh%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

Hi Masanobu

Yes that appears to have fixed it- not during the install, as the 169.254... issue persists during 
installation, but having rebooted the machine I now get an expected IP.

Thanks for your swift reply.

John

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 06:18:28PM +0900, Masanobu SAITOH wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On 2017/01/19 18:05, John Halfpenny wrote:
> >Hi All
> >
> >I recently installed NetBSD 7.0.1/i386 on a HP Elitebook 8460p.
> >
> >When I try to use DHCP on both the installer and the installed system, I
> >am dumped with the IP address 169.254.218.140 (i.e. nowheresville) so no
> >pkgsrc for me.
> >
> >If I boot from a linux live distro then DHCP works fine.
> >
> >The network card in question is an Intel PRO/1000 82579LM (rev 04). Is
> >there something I need to do to get this going (firmware?).
> 
>  I suspect it's not related to wm(4)...
> 
> >Snipped dmesg output below.
> >
> >As usual thanks for any tips and pointers!
> 
>  Could you try NetBSD 7.1 RC1?
> 
> 	http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.1_RC1/amd64/
> 
> 
> >John
> >
> ># dmesg | grep "at pci"
> >
> >wm0 at pci0 dev 25 function 0: PCH2 LAN (82579LM) Controller (rev. 0x04)
> >
> >
> > --
> >jsh%sdf.org@localhost
> >SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org
> >
> 
> 
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>                 SAITOH Masanobu (msaitoh%execsw.org@localhost
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