so I installed 1.4_BETA by copying the binary sets to a dos partition and
installing from there, now I can look at dmesg and see:

NetBSD 1.4_BETA (GENERIC) #1: Wed Apr 21 09:17:06 PDT 1999
    root@struis:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC

...
ep0 at isa0 port 0x250-0x25f irq 10: 3Com 3C509 Ethernet
ep0: address 00:c0:4f:c3:cb:29, 8KB byte-wide FIFO, 5:3 Rx:Tx split
ep0: 10baseT (default 10baseT)
...
isapnp0: read port 0x203
ep1 at isapnp0 port 0x210/16 irq 9
ep1: 3Com 3C509B EtherLink III 
ep1: address 00:c0:4f:c3:cb:29, 8KB byte-wide FIFO, 5:3 Rx:Tx split
ep1: 10baseT (default 10baseT)
...

and the network seems to work fine.  It just didn't work with the install
disk.  

-Dan


On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:

> 
> 
> sorry for the slow reply, I've been out of the office.  The boot messages
> go by pretty quick, but here's what I saw.  
> 
> with 1.3.2 boot disk,
> ep1 shows up as a 3C509B EtherLink III
> 
> with 1.4_BETA boot disk,
> the boot message shows ep0 _and_ ep1 as 3C509B, however there is only 1
> NIC in this computer.  In fact if from the utility menu I run /bin/sh and
> then do
> ifconfig -a
> I see ep0 _and_ ep1 listed, but with the same MAC address.
> 
> I can do stuff like
> ifconfig ep1 my_ip_addr broadcast_addr netmask 0xffff0000
> route add default my_gateway_addr
> 
> and ifconfig ep1 shows the interface configured, but I can't ping the
> nameserver.
> 
> On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > On Apr 24, mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote
> > > its ep1.  I still have a copy of everything from /etc from when it was
> > > working and I had an /etc/ifconfig.ep1 and it worked.  Also, I see ep1 go
> > > by when the boot floppy boots.
> > 
> > It's a 3com then. Could you send the kernel messages about ep1 to the list ?
> > 
> > --
> > Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
> > --
> > 
>