Using the 15 March (ides of March!) snapshot to install I am stuck
here.  Hope this is the appropriate forum to air my problem and will
gladly redirect as directed.

I seem to have the documented PCMCIA problem in the new setup.  I used
floppies to get a working kernel on my machine.  At this point, after
booting succesfully and reentering sysinst, I can't seem to do an ftp
installation due to the following problem.  I describe my desired
network configuration machine to sysinst as:

interface: ep1
domain:
host name: <empty, also tried assigning one>
ip number: 10.0.0.4  <this is an address not managed by dhcp on my home net>
netmask: 0xffffff00
ip of your gateway: 10.0.0.1
ip of your name server:  <Also tried giving it ISP's external name server>
Network media type: 10baseT

It then fails to ping the gateway.

Exiting to /bin/sh, I can see that it has a routing table looking like
this:

Routing tables

Internet:
Destination	Gateway		Flags
default		10.0.0.1	UG
10.0.0.0	link#1		U
10.0.0.1	link#1		UH
10.0.0.4	0:0:86:1b:96:81	UH
127.0.0.1	127.0.0.1	UH

Things it can ping: 

127.0.0.1
10.0.0.4

Things it can't ping:

anything else, it seems.  Ip addresses on 10/24 get "ping: sendto:
Host is down"

What does tcpdump on the gateway [10.0.0.1] show?

jwjr# tcpdump 
tcpdump: listening on ne0
00:01:36.983616 arp who-has 10.0.0.1 tell 10.0.0.4
00:01:36.983656 arp reply 10.0.0.1 is-at 0:40:33:a0:b5:1e
00:01:37.989197 arp who-has 10.0.0.1 tell 10.0.0.4
00:01:37.989240 arp reply 10.0.0.1 is-at 0:40:33:a0:b5:1e
00:01:38.989095 arp who-has 10.0.0.1 tell 10.0.0.4
00:01:38.989132 arp reply 10.0.0.1 is-at 0:40:33:a0:b5:1e
^C
6 packets received by filter
0 packets dropped by kernel

What is the network configuration of the gateway like?

jwjr# arp -a
? (10.0.0.1) at 00:40:33:a0:b5:1e permanent
? (10.0.0.4) at 00:00:86:1b:96:81
? (10.0.0.6) at 00:60:97:ee:7c:01
^C
jwjr# ifconfig -a
ne0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 00:40:33:a0:b5:1e
        media: manual
        inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks,
James Wetterau