Okay, now I'm having a similar problem at work. This machine was installed
by FTP to the web from ftp.netbsd.org so the bootdisk kernel worked good. I
have this machine up right now and I cant ping 127.0.0.1 everytime. It can
ping itself once out of every like 6 tries. I can ping the machine in
question from another 'workstation<192.168.0.118>' but I cant ping
<192.168.0.118> from <192.168.0.121> . I aslo have verified that the address
is not in use by another machine on the network. Very strange that I have a
NetBSD server running named and it has the same card in it and it work like
a charm --<hopefully it doesnt blow up>-- . here's # ifconfig ex0 


---------------------------------------------------------------
ex0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	media: ETHERNET autoselect (10baseT)
	status: active
	inet 192.168.0.121 netmask 0xfffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
---


heres the pertinent parts of # dmesg 
---------------------------------------------------------------
ex0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0: 3Com 3c905B-TX 10/100 Ethernet
ex0: interupting at irq9
ex0 MAC address 00:50:04:e1:5e:a5
exphy0 at ex0 phy 24: 3Com Internal media controller
exphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
---


this machine is on the 192.168.0.0 network along with about 70 other
machines mostly winshaft 95/NT and Solaris.

Ive tried to ftp to it and it just hangs. and after about 5 minutes I get
these on the console:
---
Aug 25 04:35:25 file ftpd[174]: getpeername (ftpd): Socket is not connected
---

Its weird ... I can log into it every now and then .. it seems to be rather
flaky. Is this a simple config option ?

 --
Tony Hernandez
*NIX <> MCP <> A+ <> Workstation Admin
Intellon Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: port-i386-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-i386-owner@netbsd.org]On
Behalf Of Tony Hernandez
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 10:24 AM
To: 'Frank van der Linden'; Tony Hernandez
Cc: 'port-i386@netbsd.org'
Subject: RE: 3com 3c905B-tx strange behaviour


the only problem is , that this machine is at home right now and as you can
see its not on the network :( dmesg finds the card and displays 'good'
informtation regarding the card and 'configures' it. ifconfig -a shows the
proper IP address, netmask etc. is there something I should be looking for?
I can get you these messages but it will have to be tommorow -- which means
ill have to go home and copy them to a peice of paper :( I usually paste all
pertinent information like you requested but its not to easy this time. 


cheers -- thanks for the help 

 --
Tony Hernandez
*NIX <> MCP <> A+ <> Workstation Admin
Intellon Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank van der Linden [mailto:frank@wins.uva.nl]
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 3:58 AM
To: Tony Hernandez
Cc: 'port-i386@netbsd.org'
Subject: Re: 3com 3c905B-tx strange behaviour


On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 10:33:41AM -0400, Tony Hernandez wrote:
> I just got a 3com card and I put it on a 10baseT network. It seems to not
be
> working at all with the GENERIC kernel. dmesg finds this device and
reports
> that it is ' configured '. The network starts up and everything BUT ...
the
> link on the back of the card is orange instead of green. I cant ping
anyone.
> I can ping myself after retrying several times. I tried to use the 'media'
> option in ifconfig but it returns SCIOIFMEDIA device not configured .. or
> something tp that extent. I f dont use the media option it acts as if its
> bringing it up with no errors. but It does not work ... whats up ?

Could you provide a little more information, like the output of 'dmesg',
and 'ifconfig -a' ?

- Frank