On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, sfalken wrote:

> Ok, I sat down with the NetBSD user's guide off of the website, and
> setup ifconfig.fxp0 as follows.
>
> inet x.x.x.x netmask x.x.x.x

Try using a netmask in hex, e.g. 0xffffff00.

Is your NIC card a fxp0?

dmesg | grep fxp0 # should show it

(I guess it is since your other email indicated that you could manually
configure it.)

> auto_ifconfig=YES

That is already the default.

Do you have net_interfaces set? (It shouldn't be if you want to use
auto_ifconfig.)

> and the system still fails to setup the fxp0 interface on boot.  any
> ideas what's going on here?

What happens when you do it manually with the following?
  /etc/rc.d/network start

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