Thanks. It was indeed switching to 10baseT when link was present and I brought up the interface. when I specified 10base5, I was able to install.
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Miod Vallat <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > Next I booted from the floppy and attemped to configure the ethernet > > interface via dhcp. this failed with many broadcasts for DHCP DISCOVER > > I dropped to the shell and assigned it a static IP of 192.168.0.56 based > on > > the subnet which should have worked. I verified that this IP was not > taken. > > > > it still was not able to ping the gateway at 192.168.0.1 which other > > machines on the network were able to do. > > When configuring network on SPARCbook systems, you need to explicitely > force media as 10base5 (ifconfig le0 media 10base5). > > Miod
