Kevin McMahon said :
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>I'm trying to install NetBSD on a Pentium with a 3c590 ethernet card.
>The card works with the Windows 95 installed on the disk.  The NetBSD
>kernel sees the card, assigns it ep1, and mentions the correct IRQ
>(11).  I do a ifconfig ep1 <ipaddr>, which works fine, but I can't ping
>anyone.  After a bit, it says
>"ping: sendto: Host is down".  I'm using the BNC connector on the card.
>In Windows 95, the driver says it using IRQ 11 and address 6000-601F.
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>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Did you use the flag link0 link1
better to use ifconfig try /etc/hostname.ep0 it should be something like that :
$ cat /etc/hostname.ep0
inet YourHostname.YourDomain nm.nm.nm.nm bc.bc.bc.bc link0 link1
$
where nm.nm.nm.nm is your netmask and bc.bc.bc.bc is your broadcast

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