> This may seem a little vague, but:
> 
> When I brought my Q700 with onboard ethernet running NetBSD -current into 
> work to hook it up to the ethernet, we did "ifconfig -a" at the prompt to 
> see if we had ae0 or sn0.  That lists all available devices.  It will 
> list a "sn0 <garbage address>" of your ether card, if you are using sn0.

It should have been something like:

sn0: flags=###<WHAT_THE_FLAGS_MEAN> mtu the_mtu

Some snapshots have ifconfig showing garbage addresses on all interfaces,
where the address is:
    inet 0.0.0.0 -> 0.0.0.0 (and then I think there's a netmask)

> I don't know the results if you are using ae0, however.  Someone should 
> confirm.

It should work (that's what ifconfig -a is for).

The problem is if someone's card doesn't show up. If it's noticed at
all, it will show up in the boot messages. If it is deliberately
not configured, we can learn more about the problem.

Take care,

Bill