I'm trying to get NetBSD installed on my Linode following the Wiki page:

http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/NetBSD_Howto

Networking works under the Finnix image, I am able to to use wget to download the files needed, but when I boot the NetBSD installer images, I am unable to get networking to work under NetBSD. I have tried both 32&64 bit kernels (under 32 & 64bit pv_grub). If I try and let it get networking via DHCP, it doesn't get a response, if I use hard-coded values, no traffic gets passed.

IP info:
# ifconfig -a
xennet0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
capabilities=2800<TCP4CSUM_Tx,UDP4CSUM_Tx>
enabled=0
address: f2:3c:91:ae:c9:5d
inet 50.116.26.109 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 50.116.26.255
inet6 fe80::f03c:91ff:feae:c95d%xennet0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 33184
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2

Routing table:
# route -n show
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags
default 50.116.26.1 UG
50.116.26.0/24 link#1 U
50.116.26.1 link#1 UHL
50.116.26.109 f2:3c:91:ae:c9:5d UHL
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH

Internet6:
Destination Gateway Flags
::1 ::1 UH
fe80::%xennet0 link#1 U
fe80::f03c:91ff:feae:c95d%xennet0 f2:3c:91:ae:c9:5d UHL
fe80::%lo0 fe80::1%lo0 U
fe80::1%lo0 link#2 UHL
ff01:1:: link#1 U
ff01:2:: ::1 U
ff02::%xennet0 link#1 U
ff02::%lo0 ::1 U



I can ping my own IP from the booted image:

# ping -n -c3 50.116.26.109
PING 50.116.26.109 (50.116.26.109): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 50.116.26.109: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.045 ms
64 bytes from 50.116.26.109: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.058 ms
64 bytes from 50.116.26.109: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.056 ms


But I can't ping my default route:

# ping -n -c3 50.116.26.1
PING 50.116.26.1 (50.116.26.1): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Host is down
ping: sendto: Host is down

Did I miss something in the setup? Have the instructions changed since that wiki page was put up?

Well, I never got 5.1.2 working, but NetBSD/amd64 6.0 seems to work, installing that now.