Makoto Fujiwara wrote:
> 
> emanuel> Just installed 1.5.2 on my Starmax 4000/200 and having pproblems with
> emanuel> the network.
> emanuel> The Network card shows up during boot, "ifconfig" sees it, but a simple
> emanuel> ping hangs forewer>>>:
> 
> emanuel> Wed Sep 12 08:13:27 PDT 1956
> 
> emanuel> NetBSD/macppc (starmax1) (tty00)
> 
> To my knowledge (at least on StarMax machine), Network card doesn't
> work if the date is set too away old.
> 
> If you set the date, I remember it freezes at the moment, but
> if you give hardware reset, of course you'll get fsck running while
> boot, but the networks returns the functionality after machine up.

THAT WAS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED !

THANKS !

starmax1# date 200110012252
Oct  1 22:52:00 starmax1 date: date set by root
Oct  1 22:52:00 starmax1 date: date set by root
Mon Oct  1 22:52:00 PDT 2001
starmax1# ping asterix
PING asterix (192.168.1.75): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.75: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=1.661 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.75: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.472 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.75: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.417 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.75: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.464 ms
64 bytes from 1^C
----asterix PING Statistics----
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.417/0.688/1.661/0.544 ms
starmax1#