The boot up messages look like this:

DHCPDISCOVER on strip1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
send_packet network is down

repeated with different, increasing intervals.

ifconfig -a reports many entries, here is the entry for strip1 (I
still haven't figured out a way to mount my FAT32 partition, so I can
easily capture all the output.  I just typed in this part):

strip1: flags=1<UP> mtu 1100 inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000.

Thanks for the help, Manuel.

-russ


Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> writes:

> 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 ...
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
> --
> 

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