On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Erno Palonheimo wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I've a strange problem here.  My home nameserver machine had been
> running 1.4.2 for last three months without a problem, and I decided
> to move to 1.5.  So, I halted it, booted netbsd.ram from the old root
> filesystem, and now the 1.5 kernel has some really eerie problems with
> qe0.  The symptoms are as follows:
> 
> # ifconfig qe0 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00
> ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS qe0: Device not configured
> 
> One might think at this point that the kernel can't see qe0.  But,
> from /kern/msgbuf:
> 
> qe0 at uba0 csr 174440 vec 764 ipl 17
> 
> It can definitely see the card, but it can't use it for some reason.
> Any ideas?  I already did re-disklabel & newfs over the 1.4.2 system,
> so I won't be able to return to the old system unless I setup network
> boot and restore the backups manually.

I had a similar problem once on a uVAX II and the problem was that the
clock wasn't running.  My system reported a date just before the Epoch
(i.e. 0) and when I set the date everything was happy again.  

- Greg