Hi Masanobu Yes that appears to have fixed it- not during the install, as the 169.254... issue persists during installation, but having rebooted the machine I now get an expected IP.
Thanks for your swift reply. John On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 06:18:28PM +0900, Masanobu SAITOH wrote: > Hi. > > On 2017/01/19 18:05, John Halfpenny wrote: > >Hi All > > > >I recently installed NetBSD 7.0.1/i386 on a HP Elitebook 8460p. > > > >When I try to use DHCP on both the installer and the installed system, I > >am dumped with the IP address 169.254.218.140 (i.e. nowheresville) so no > >pkgsrc for me. > > > >If I boot from a linux live distro then DHCP works fine. > > > >The network card in question is an Intel PRO/1000 82579LM (rev 04). Is > >there something I need to do to get this going (firmware?). > > I suspect it's not related to wm(4)... > > >Snipped dmesg output below. > > > >As usual thanks for any tips and pointers! > > Could you try NetBSD 7.1 RC1? > > http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.1_RC1/amd64/ > > > >John > > > ># dmesg | grep "at pci" > > > >wm0 at pci0 dev 25 function 0: PCH2 LAN (82579LM) Controller (rev. 0x04) > > > > > > -- > >[email protected] > >SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org > > > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------- > SAITOH Masanobu ([email protected] > [email protected]) -- [email protected] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org
