Ok, quit a long time ago this guy posted this...

>
> Subject: Problems with installing over FTP 
> To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org> 
> From: MadKillah <madkillah@yahoo.com>
> List: port-macppc Date: 07/01/2001 19:00:21
>
> I'm having trouble trying to install over FTP on a Power Computing Power
> Center 132. I made a boot floppy and it boots fine and sets up the disk
> fine, but when it comes time to install the sets I'm having problems. I
> choose ftp and then it asks me to setup the network, which device to use,
> mc0, I enter my host ip, gateway, and netmask and then confirm it but it
> keeps giving an error saying it can not ping the gateway. I am pretty
> familiar with FreeBSD so I go to the shell and run an ifconfig -a. 
> Everything looks ok so then I try to ping my router but there is no
> response. I have a Linksys cable router and its address is 192.168.1.1. I
> set my host address to 192.168.1.2 which always works fine with FreeBSD. 
> I've tried different host IPs, even connecting my cable modem directly and
> even tried installing a SMC card which is recognized as tlp0 and the
> problem is always the same, it can't ping the gateway. I just can't figure
> out what is wrong. Can anyone help? Thanks. 
>

I am having nearly the same problem.  I run NetBSD on several other ports,
and have not tried the macppc until now, so I may be missing something
that burried in the documentation.  I tried looking for it in there
somewhere there.

Now, I tried installing several differant PCI ethernet cards, using the
AUI port, and the UDP port. basically everythign I could think.  Later,
after giving up on that approach, I did an install via CD.  It installed
perfectally, but once again the ethernet isn't working. 

On boot it will see the devices, it will have no errors, if a gateway is
installed it will not have a failed to connect to defaultroute error.  (my
other machines do if the cable is inplugged... etc... if I unplug the
cable it does give a defaultroute error.  (On all of the cards tried).

Now I know the cable is good, and the hub is good.  I switched the
equipment all around, and well its all working.  The machine is a Power
Tower Pro 200.  

When you do an ifcondif -a, everything looks proper.  If you ping the
gateway, no go, pinging loopback/localhost is also no go, so something is
messed up for at least this model in the inst floppies and the default
install.

I'd appreciate some help or comments, and if you want specific commands
typed out I can do that also and relay output.  This last guy never seemed
to have had a responce, so well, I hope I get some.

-Cris