>>>>> "sd" == S Dobson <sd20@york.ac.uk> writes:

    sd> in the /dev directory there are no network devices

There shouldn't be, but you should see the interface listed in
'ifconfig -a'.  If you don't, the card's driver isn't working right.
This could be because the card isn't supported, because there's a bug
in the driver, or because the driver isn't compiled into your kernel.

Often the GENERIC config files for non-i386 are out-of-sync
accidentally or on purpose, and they don't include all the drivers, so
if your card indeed doesn't show up in 'ifconfig -a' you should cross
your fingers and hope that's the case.  Then post your boot output and
tell us what kernel you're using.

    sd> Netbsd detects it but doesn't give it a device name (such as
    sd> xi0 or eth0).

you should post the boot messages.  you can get them back with
something like

$ dmesg | less

To get them into an email, maybe you can copy them onto a CF disk and
then stick the disk into another laptop with network?

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