On 16/09/2007, Eric d'Alibut <eric.halibut@gmail.com> wrote:
> I continue to bang my head against this Dell whose 'native' OS is Home
> XP. I now have NetBSD-3.1 booting from the machine's second hard
> drive.

I can't say much about 3.1; I have been running fairly recent -current
on all my NetBSD machines - generally with very good results - if one
is prepared to have very occasional hick-up.

>
> 1. The onboard nic is a tlp.

My HP laptop has a Broadcom, but...

>
> 2. It will not work with netbsd booted.

Mine works fine, as long as I turn off the machine after running XP,
i.e. warm reboot of NetBSD after XP results in similar behavior -


>
> 3. It runs fine with the windows OS booted.

Goes without saying, whatever "fine" means in this context ...

>
> 4. Same static ip data for both OS's.
>

Both static and DHCP.

> 5. If I boot from a NetBSD-3.1 release CD, sysinst cannot bring up a connection.
>
> 6. The second hard drive netbsd install now boots,

I have no problem booting it from any disk i.e. external USB - I have
a spare installation on one of these, as well as on a 4GB stick.

> but it cannot make
> the nic work DESPITE the fact that ifconfig says it is up and -- I
> think -- 'netstat -rn' says the routes are ok. Are they?
>
> Routing tables
>
> Internet:
> Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface
> default            192.168.1.60       UGS         0        1      -  tlp0
> 127/8              127.0.0.1          UGRS        0        0  33192  lo0
> 127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          1        0  33192  lo0
> 192.168.1/24       link#1             UC          1        0      -  tlp0
> 192.168.1.60       link#1             UHLc        1        0      -  tlp0
>
> Here's ifconfig -a
>
> tlp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         address: 00:08:a1:05:24:6b
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
>         status: active
>         inet 192.168.1.80 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>         inet6 fe80::208:a1ff:fe05:246b%tlp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 33192
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
>
> dmesg is attached.
>
> I'd love to get this thing working but it's driving me nuts. No
> piratical associations intended...
>
> Best as per usual,
>
> --
> No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am
> not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet looney merely
> because I have a pet halibut?
>

Not much help, I guess, but try booting NetBSD from cold.

Chavdar