Subject: Strange network problems...
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Jack Culpepper <jack@cs.hmc.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/18/1999 17:06:39
Hi all,

I have a Tatung Sparc 5 clone running 1.3.2.  A while ago it was happily
booting and running fine with a 9600 baud terminal hooked up to the console.
Yesterday I got a monitor, hooked it up, but instead of switching over the
input-device and output-device firmware variables, held down stop-n to reset
them and have it use the monitor.  It still boots fine (even off the network),
but if I try and use the network once it has booted, the program using the
network will just hang.  I have a feeling this is related to the fact that
this motherboard has both AUI and twisted pair built into it, but Tatung
didn't stuff the twisted pair port.  Anyway, I think when I reset the
firmware I accidently told it to pass the unusable ethernet device to the
OS.  The strange thing is that if I boot it off the network and NFS mount
it's filesystems, they work fine, but I can't ping the host they were NFS
mounted from!  Has anyone ever heard of this or know how to fix it?

Jack