As a mere NetBSD novice I am not sure how to describe the problem. 
My goal is to have a working (TCP/IP) ethernet connection using dhcp.
The networking hardware is OK, since without making any hardware changes
I am able to complete network installs of Redhat linux. 
However when I boot NetBSD,"traceroute 192.168._._" fails with
"Can't find any network interfaces" and "ping _" fails with
"cannot resolve _: (host name lookup failure)"

ifconfig -a output shows an entry for sk0!
sk0: flags: 8843 (UP,...)
      addr: 00:11:d8:06:1b:00
      media: Ethernet manual (none)
      inet6: fe80::211::... ... %sk0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1

dmesg | grep sk reports:

skc0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0: ioapic0 pin 17 (irq 10)
skc0: Yukon Gigabit Ethernet ...
sk0 at skc0 port A: Ethernet addr 00:11:d8:06:1b:00
sk0: no PHY found

I meant to say I had (following the instructions) changed rc.conf to 
include dhclient=yes
What else should I check?

Thank you,

Philip



On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Quentin Garnier wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 12:57:46PM -0500, Philip Vetter wrote:
>> Hi, I've done a fresh install; the ethernet adapter seems to be recognized
>> but not configured. What should I do to get it working?
>
> What make you think it's "not configured".  Does ifconfig -a output shows an
> entry for sk0?
>
>> dmesg reports two lines approximately:
>>
>> makphy0 at sk0 phy 0: Marvell 88E1011 Gigabit ...
>> makphy0: {various ethernet protocols}
>
> This is only the PHY.  The relevant output starts at skc0 at pci? dev ...
>
>> I think I've followed the directions in INSTALL, including changing rc.conf
>
> Changing it how?  You're telling what you did.  And neither what you want to
> do.
>
>

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Philip Vetter

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