On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Chris Cowdery wrote:

> 
> In message <35878DC5.29337319@mpc-data.co.uk> you wrote:
> 
> I've upgraded from 1.2D as it happens, so I'd already changed the old 
> hostname.ne0 to ifconfig.ne0. Its contents are as follows:
> inet dibbler 0xffffff00
> (the computer is called dibbler).
> But none of the suggestions above have helped at all, so here's the snip
> from the startup messages:
> 
> hostname: dibbler 
> configuring network interfaces: ne0ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS ne0: Device
> not configured.
> adding interface aliases: 

Have you got a /dev/ne0 file?  if you've not try running /dev/MAKEDEV all

Cheers,
Chris