On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Paul Apprich wrote:

> 
> 	Let me preface my situation. I am rather new to networking UNIX 
> boxes. Please reserver the flames for later. I had recently installed 
> NetBSD 1.3 on a 486 system. The ethernet adapter shows up as 'ne2' on the 
> PCI bus. I see no errors relating to the system startup itself. However, 
> in preparation for netbooting as  VAXstation 3100 M76, I get the 
> following messages from the console of the 486:
> 
> rarpd: BIOCSETIF: Device not configured
> mountd: can't change attributes for /share to Default
> nfsd: can't bind upd addr
> mopd: BIOCSETIF: Device not configured
> mopd: no interfaces
> 
> 	From a first glance BIOCSETIF appears to be an environment 
> variable. If so, what would value would I assign it? I am not 
> familiar with what the other messages mean.
>
No BIOCSETIF is a ioctl function.

Ok, you mention ne2. Have you configured ne2. E.g given it an IP adress.
Does your kernel have BPF support and do you have /dev/bpf*?

Which arguments did you give rarpd and mopd?
 
> TiA
> Paul Apprich
> 
> 

-moj

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