Read through: http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/dhcp.html

Then:

$ sudo /etc/rc.d/network stop
$ sudo /etc/rc.d/network start
$ sudo /etc/rc.d/dhclient start

Resume the beatings...

--Brian

On Fri, 11 May 2001, Siders, Keith wrote:

> OK, so we were all new at some point...
>
> I've just recently loaded 1.5 from the Wasabi CD on a second partition of my
> NT box. Dual boots to the kernel just fine. Took some time to get twm
> running, but it's up. Having problems getting the ethernet side of things
> working. I downloaded Lupi's short guide, but it's networking segment seems
> geared to PPP connections as opposed to doing DHCP over a LAN. The
> installation program had asked for all network configuration information,
> which I fed to it, but none of the necessary configuration files were ever
> written to the filesystem, AFAI can tell. I've asked Wasabi for some help
> via e-mail, but at this point no response. I'll have to also run pkg_add
> just to see if it's present. According to the NetBSD packages collection
> page it should be. But then again a lot of good it does without a network
> connection...
>
> Keith Siders
> (615) 257-4050
>
>

--Brian

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