On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:29:34PM -0400, Andy Ball wrote:
... 
> I get credible looking output from dmesg, saying that the
> network interface card is recognised as ne0.  I think that I
> need to tell this NetBSD machine that I would like it to use
> TCP/IP style protocols, that communication to the outside
> world should be done through ne0, and that it should ask the
> DHCP server for its IP address and other assorted
> information.

As root, just type "dhclient" and see what happens..
If ifconfig -a shows ne0 as having an ipnumber, all should be well :)
Then adding "dhclient=YES" to /etc/rc.conf will make sure it happens
automatically on boot.

Cheers,

Patrick