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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-chi-13.sprintlink.net!news.sea.pnap.net!news.intermind.com!paperboy From: Steve Mushero <mushero@intermind.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Can't use net cards upon install Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 14:21:10 -0700 Organization: Intermind Lines: 28 Message-ID: <334813C6.D23@intermind.com> Reply-To: mushero@intermind.com NNTP-Posting-Host: imind-193-254.intermind.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5765 We're trying to do a simple NetBSD install on a few intel machines, but can never get the ethernet cards to work. We've tried several machines with ISA & PCI busses, plus ne2000 and 3com cards - all the same result. Tried it with OpenBSD, too, same thing. We get 'ed0 device timeout' errors and/or no communications at all on an ne2000. On a 3com board, we get only host is down errors. We Basically, we do the boot, hard disk format, fs setup, etc. and are ready to get the rest of the distribution. We do an ifconfig ed0 to set the ip address and everything looks great - the interface is up and running with the right mask, status - everything looks normal. Ping or anything else just dies on anything except 127.0.0.1, which I think worked at some point, but on OpenBSD gives strange queue errors. Unfortunately netstat isn't available on the boot fs, so we can't look at the routes, but we've tried adding default routes and everything else we can think of. We've done a lot of these types of installs with lots of OSs, but are completely baffled by this. It must be something stupid, but we can't figure it out. Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Steve Mushero mushero@intermind.com 206-812-9150