> I had the chance to upgrade my old Toshiba Tecra 510 CDS to a Tecra 8000
> today. I installed 1.4.1/i386, but when I tried to use my ethernet
> card and/or my modem card, this didn't work any more. The network card was
> recognized as ne2 (by the GENERIC kernel), but talking to it didn't work:
> ne2: device timeout after ifconfig went fine, and when pinging around.

Apologies if I'm missing the point here, as I've never used a laptop w/
NetBSD, nor any of the associated hardware, but in the dmesg below, you
have ne0 not ne2

> npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
> fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
> pcic0 at isa0 port 0x3e0-0x3e1 iomem 0xd0000-0xd3fff: using irq 3
> pcic0: controller 0 (Intel 82365SL Revision 1) has sockets A and B
> pcmcia0 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 0
> pcmcia1 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 1
> ne0 at pcmcia1 function 0 port 0x340-0x34f port 0x350-0x35f
> ne0: RPTI EP401 Ethernet
> ne0: Ethernet address 00:40:95:40:43:85
> isapnp0: no ISA Plug 'n Play devices found