On Mon, 2 May 2005, R.Sivaramakrishna Sharma wrote:

> Dear People,
> Thank you so much for all the help and response you
> all have extended to me in configuring my NIC -
> basically to install additional packages like X, X
> Desktop etc. etc. etc.
>
> Somehow after trying all your suggestions, almost
> every trick in the book, I have a half-broken internet
> connection - i.e. automatic start of network
> connection does not work and I have to do a
>
> $inet .....

have you re-installed the whole system as we said to be the best solution 
in our last email?

>> command to make it barely to ping to my gateway.
>
> using the `pkg_add <package>` after exporting the
> PKG_PATH results in a strange path -
> cannot resolve 6e:ff:2w:32:.... <i.e. some IPv6
> address>. This is inspite of the fact that I said 'NO'
> to IPv6 autoconf during sysinst.

that's AFAIK normal behaviour and shouldn't need any further investigation 
because it should time-out very quickly and go ahead the IPv4 way...

> If someone could gratefully help me with this damned
> problem, it would be great. It's been almost 24*3
> hours I am stuck with this problem. May be I made
> mistakes, or may be I need to do something else....
>
> I've never had so much surmounting problems with
> FreeBSD ...... :(
>
> Yet I like NetBSD's clean and sleek architecture .....
> I choose not to pull back to FreeBSD :)
>
> Please help me :***
>
>
> P.S. Do I need to re-compile my kernel for a simple
> NIC to work (without IPv6)?

no, but it has to be configured correctly.

could you please tell us the

* dmesg output (especially that regarding to the NIC)

* the defaultroute entry in /etc/rc.conf

* the ifconfig.<NIC> that was created by sysinstall

tia & HTH,

timo