I've built BOINC and setiathome and everything appears to be set up right (i.e. I have a app_info.xml).

I get this:

24-Sep-2007 13:18:39 [SETI@home] Requesting 30240 seconds of new work
24-Sep-2007 13:18:44 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 511]
24-Sep-2007 13:18:44 [SETI@home] Message from server: No work sent
24-Sep-2007 13:18:44 [SETI@home] Deferring communication for 2 min 27 sec
24-Sep-2007 13:18:44 [SETI@home] Reason: no work from project


I got work for a client on an officially supported
platform recently, so I don't think it's that there are no work units available.

This is happening to instances on NetBSD/i386 and NetBSD/amd64.

Please post the contents of your app_info.xml file.

Here's app_info.xml:

<app_info>
<app>
<name>setiathome</name>
</app>
<file_info>
<name>setiathome-5.27.x86_64-pc-netbsd5</name>
<executable/>
</file_info>
<app_version>
<app_name>setiathome</app_name>
<version_num>527</version_num>
<file_ref>
<file_name>setiathome-5.27.x86_64-pc-netbsd5</file_name>
<main_program/>
</file_ref>
</app_version>
</app_info>

Fuller output from boinc:

24-Sep-2007 18:32:54 [---] Starting BOINC client version 6.1.0 for x86_64-pc-netbsd5
24-Sep-2007 18:32:54 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
24-Sep-2007 18:32:54 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.17.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.0
24-Sep-2007 18:32:54 [---] Data directory: /home/jakllsch/BOINC
24-Sep-2007 18:32:54 [SETI@home] Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
24-Sep-2007 18:32:54 [---] Processor: 1 amd64 AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3100+
24-Sep-2007 18:32:54 [---] Processor features:
24-Sep-2007 18:32:54 [---] OS: NetBSD: 4.99.31
24-Sep-2007 18:32:54 [---] Memory: 762.03 MB physical, 1.00 GB virtual
24-Sep-2007 18:32:54 [---] Disk: 18.70 GB total, 13.98 GB free
24-Sep-2007 18:32:54 [---] Local time is UTC -6 hours
24-Sep-2007 18:32:54 [SETI@home] URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 3832115; location: home; project prefs: default
24-Sep-2007 18:32:54 [---] General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 12-Oct-2006 18:51:53)
24-Sep-2007 18:32:54 [---] Host location: home
24-Sep-2007 18:32:54 [---] General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
24-Sep-2007 18:32:54 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 381.01MB
24-Sep-2007 18:32:54 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 685.82MB
24-Sep-2007 18:32:54 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 9.35GB
24-Sep-2007 18:36:54 [SETI@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work
24-Sep-2007 18:36:54 [SETI@home] Requesting 30240 seconds of new work
24-Sep-2007 18:36:59 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 511]
24-Sep-2007 18:36:59 [SETI@home] Message from server: No work sent
24-Sep-2007 18:36:59 [SETI@home] Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec
24-Sep-2007 18:36:59 [SETI@home] Reason: no work from project
^C24-Sep-2007 18:37:04 [---] Received signal 2
24-Sep-2007 18:37:04 [---] Exit requested by user
jakllsch@wormulon:~/BOINC$



Hope this helps.

Jakllsch:

Change these tags in your app_info.xml file:
<name>setiathome_enhanced</name>

<app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>

If that doesn't work, get the latest FreeBSD port here (and fix their broken app_info.xml file):
http://lunatics.at/index.php?module=Downloads;sa=dlview;id=89

Yup, that '_enhanced' was all it took, thanks.