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| 	Hello folks.  After a day of playing with netBSD-sparc64 and learning
| more than I ever dreamed of how net booting works, I'd like to report on my
| state of the world with respect to NetBSD and the Netra T1.  the machine
| I've been using is a Netra T1 360MHZ Sparc III machine with 320MB of
| memory.
|
| 1.  The ifconfig command on the miniroot for NetBSD-1.5.1 and the binary
| snapshot dated 20010114 doesn't work, it displays all 0 addresses when it
| displays the status of an interface.  I don't know if it actually sets the
| interface correctly and merely displays it wrong, see below.
|
| 2.  The NetBSD-1.5 and 1.5.1 GENERIC kernels boot fine, recognize disk,
| network, and everything, but fail to transfer data through the
| hme0 network interface.  In order to assure myself that I wasn't being
| bitten by problem 1 above, I arranged to have a copy of the ifconfig
| command from the NetBSD-1.5.1 distribution on a disk in the machine so that
| I could use it to manipulate the interface.  While it does show the correct
| info and appears to configure the interface as requested, I am unable to
| ping hosts, both on the local subnet and on remote subnets, nor am I able
| to establish a tcp connection to another host, using ftp as the
| establishing application.  As a last guess, I tried manually setting the
| media type on the hme0 interface, in hopes that it was an auto-negotiation
| error, but to no avail.
| I also tried pinging the host from another machine, but got no answer.  No
| error messages were generated, and the machine gave the impression that
| the interface was fine.  

It occurs to me: doesn't that machine have 2 HME chips in it?  You may
want to try using the other one, since the mapping between device instance
and hardware is sometimes incorrect.

Eduardo