On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:55:16AM -0400, russe@electriclichen.com wrote:
> 
> I'm new to NetBSD, and I'm trying to get my new NetBSD system onto the
> network.  
> 
> I have a lovely NetBSD 1.5.1 installation on an IBM Thinkpad 600XL,
> connected to the network over a PCMCIA ethernet card.  I've got a four
> port Linksys router sitting in front of a cable modem.  The Linksys is
> providing IP addresses using DHCP.
> 
> I've read the NetBSD faq, the dhclient man page, and the
> dhclient.conf, and made the following configuration changes.  I've
> edited /etc/rc.conf, and set the variable dhclient=YES, and on reboot
> lots of interface configuring seems to happens, but I get repeated
> messages about the network being down.  I've also created an empty
> /etc/dhclient.conf file.  I'm not sure what else if anything needs to
> be configured.
> 
> I can also boot this machine into Windows ME.  My dhcp setup seems to
> work fine in this environment, so I know that the Ethernet card works,
> that the cabling works, etc.
> 
> I'm pretty sure I've misconfigured something on the NetBSD side.
> Maybe my system can't talk to the PCMCIA ethernet card?  I wonder if I
> have to do something to get this enabled and working.  The interface
> configuration messages are not saved in the output of dmesg, so I was
> not able to cut and paste them verbatim into this email.

what does 'ifconfig -a' shows ?
Do you see your ethernet adapter here ?
Something like 'ne0' or xi0 or ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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