OK, some more information.  I figured out that "man -k ethernet" would
list all of the candidate ethernet devices, so I tried to run dhclient
on the 3com ones, because I have a 3com pcmcia card.  I ran for
example:

  dhclient ex0

This failed right away, and it also failed for all the other 3com
devices, so I don't think my thinkpad is recognizing my ethernet card.
The card says: "3Com MegaHertz Lan 10/100 LAN Cardbus PC pccard".  The
model number is 3CCFE575CT.  

I wonder whether this card is supported under NetBSD?  Where I would I
look on the web to check myself, so I don't have to bother the list?

In a related note, I don't see my FAT32 partition when I run:

  disklabel wd0

-russ


Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:27:25AM -0400, russe@electriclichen.com wrote:
> > 
> > The boot up messages look like this:
> > 
> > DHCPDISCOVER on strip1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
> > send_packet network is down
> > 
> > repeated with different, increasing intervals.
> > 
> > ifconfig -a reports many entries, here is the entry for strip1 (I
> > still haven't figured out a way to mount my FAT32 partition, so I can
> 
> 'disklabel wd0' to see which one is your FAT32 (usually e)
> then
> mount -t msdos /dev/wd0e /mnt
> 
> > easily capture all the output.  I just typed in this part):
> > 
> > strip1: flags=1<UP> mtu 1100 inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000.
> > 
> > Thanks for the help, Manuel.
> 
> This one isn't your network interface, it's for "Metricom Ricochet packet
> radio wireless network".
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
> --
> 

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