> I have a copy of 1.3.3 aswell now, and I dd'd the diskimage on the disk in
> the same way as before.. This time is booted, gave me a shell prompt and
> everything. The problem now lies in the fact the ethernet doesn't work.
>
> The moment I try to send any data out I get
>
> # ping 10.1.3.1
> PING TO 10.1.3.1 (10.1.3.1): 56 data bytes
> le0: device timeout

It's very interesting.  Although this might sound a dumbest question,
is the network connection 100% ok?

> I wondered if it was due to it using an incorrect interface so I tried
>
> # ifconfig le0 media AUI
> ifconfig: SIOSIFMEDIA: Device not configured

It's an expected behaviour of DECstation as it doesn't accept media
selection.  It needs to be improved misleading 'Device not configured'
complainment by ifconfig(8) because it knows the network interface is
'manual' and no selection availble.

Tohru Nishimura
Nara Institute of Science and Technology