I have just spent a lot of frustrating time doing a clean install on a new Intel mobo based system. [dmesg follows]
The system came with an onboard re and an Intel GigE (em). The customer's preference is to have fxp nics everywhere and supplied me with new ones. So out with the em, disbled the re in BIOS, put in two fxp's and started the install of 4.2 stable up to erratum 005 (no X so 006 not needed) that has done several installs faultlessly including a firewall with three fxp nics. All sweet until fxp0 set to dhcp and install tried to get an IP and ended up totally locked. Checked that the cable etc OK by plugging it into my Tpad - no prob getting IP. Swapped nic for another from a working box. Same result. Rebooted to shell from CD. # ifconfig fxp0 inet 192.168.77.44 netmask 255.255.255.0 locked the system solid again. I then installed with NO nics configured and tried the ifconfig in the running system. Same lockup. Going back to the em that I had pulled and re-enabling the re got the system working including dhcp. In the following dmesg there are some lines don't dig. A couple about RTC battery. The clock is keeping time just fine. I think I might find the cause of: pcibios at bios0 function 0x1a not configured with a bit of googling, but is it relevant to the problem? and as for: bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xae00! 0xcb000/0x1000 What does the exclamation mark signify? Anyway here is the guts: OpenBSD 4.2-stable (GENERIC) #4: Wed Jan 23 10:41:51 EST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC RTC BIOS diagnostic error 80<clock_battery> cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2180 @ 2.00GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36, CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,TM2 ,CX16,xTPR real mem = 1062776832 (1013MB) avail mem = 1020014592 (972MB) RTC BIOS diagnostic error 80<clock_battery> mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 08/28/07, SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0xe44d0 (28 entries) bios0: vendor Intel Corp. version "NL94510J.86A.0017.2007.0828.1137" date 08/28/2007 bios0: Intel Corporation D945GCNL apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown, estimated 0:00 hours apm0: flags 30102 dobusy 0 doidle 1 pcibios at bios0 function 0x1a not configured bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xae00! 0xcb000/0x1000 cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82945GP" rev 0x02: rng active, 8000000Kb/sec vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel 82945G Video" rev 0x02: aperture at 0x40000000, size 0x10000000 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) ppb0 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x01 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 1 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x01 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 re0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Realtek 8168" rev 0x01: RTL8168 2 (0x3800), irq 9, address 00:1c:c0:2d:71:4d rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S PHY, rev. 2 ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 2 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x01 pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 ppb3 at pci0 dev 28 function 3 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x01 pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: irq 10 uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: irq 11 uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: irq 9 uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: irq 11 ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: irq 10 usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0: Intel EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 ppb4 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BA AGP" rev 0xe1 pci5 at ppb4 bus 5 em0 at pci5 dev 4 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000GT (82541GI)" rev 0x05: irq 10, address 00:0e:0c:d9:b7:e8 ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801GB LPC" rev 0x01: PM disabled pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801GB IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <ATAPI, DVD D DH16D2P, HP56> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled) pciide1 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801GB SATA" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to native-PCI pciide1: using irq 11 for native-PCI interrupt wd0 at pciide1 channel 1 drive 0: <ST380815AS> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 76319MB, 156301488 sectors wd0(pciide1:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801GB SMBus" rev 0x01: irq 11 iic0 at ichiic0 usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 usb4 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 uhub4 at usb4: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 isa0 at ichpcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec biomask ff6d netmask ff6d ttymask ffef pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b =================================== No CCs needed, thanx. Rod/ /earth: write failed, file system is full cp: /earth/creatures: No space left on device