Re: sparc 5.2-beta bsd.rd doesn't get IP address from DHCP

On Wednesday, July 4, 2012 21:42 CEST, Miod Vallat <[email protected]> wrote: 
 
> > I guess the bsd.rd would not have your root disk's /etc/hostname.le0 as root
> > for your bsd.rd is on rd0a.   Does that file on your root disk, sd0a have
> > media specified?  Perhaps you need to issue ifconfig le0 media <????> at
> > bsd.rd?
> 
> It's an install he's doing, why would he have a root disk already?
> 
> This looks more akin to missing code in the media layer, but then I am
> puzzled that regular bsd seems to be working.

The /bsd I tried, and which works is an older 5.1-current, but I also just tried booting the 5.2-beta /bsd, which 
also works. Its only the 5.2-beta bsd.rd which doesn't seem to detect a link on the interface.

I just tried to set an IP manually, and it just worked:
Available network interfaces are: le0.
Which one do you wish to configure? (or 'done') [le0] 
IPv4 address for le0? (or 'dhcp' or 'none') [dhcp] 
Issuing hostname-associated DHCP request for le0.
le0: no link ............. sleeping
Issuing free-roaming DHCP request for le0.
le0: no link ............. sleeping
Available network interfaces are: le0.
Which one do you wish to configure? (or 'done') [le0] 
IPv4 address for le0? (or 'dhcp' or 'none') [dhcp] ^C


# ifconfig le0                                                                 
le0: flags=8822<BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        lladdr 08:00:20:89:d9:b5
        media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT)
        status: unknown
# ifconfig le0 up                                                              
# ifconfig le0                                                                 
le0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        lladdr 08:00:20:89:d9:b5
        media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT)
        status: unknown
# ifconfig le0 10.0.0.189 netmask 255.255.255.0                                
# ping 10.0.0.9
PING 10.0.0.9 (10.0.0.9): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.0.9: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=120.901 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.712 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.9: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.655 ms
--- 10.0.0.9 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 0.655/40.756/120.901/56.671 ms
# ifconfig -a                                                                  
lo0: flags=8008<LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 33196
le0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        lladdr 08:00:20:89:d9:b5
        media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT)
        status: unknown
        inet 10.0.0.189 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
# 

below the ifconfig output from the 5.1-current kernel:
# ifconfig le0                                                                 
le0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        lladdr 08:00:20:89:d9:b5
        priority: 0
        groups: egress
        media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT)
        inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:fe89:d9b5%le0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        inet 10.0.0.25 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255


Sebastian.

> 
> Miod