At 08:15 AM 7/18/97 -0700, you wrote:
>When we last left Our Hero, he was frustrated by Virtual PC's inability to
>successfully probe any PCI devices (including the emulated Ethernet) by using
>PCI Configuration Mode 2, which it apparently fooled NetBSD into thinking
>it could use.
>
>Thanks to Patrick Welche, I now have an i386 SSTO 1.2G boot floppy from around
>July 7th, which was compiled with "options PCI_CONF_MODE=1" to force a
>configuration mode 1 PCI bus probe.  The results are a little more interesting
>now ...
>
>NetBSD 1.2G (INSTALL) #4: Fri Jul 18 12:08:20 BST 1997
>    prlw1@quartz.newn.cam.ac.uk:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/INSTALL
>cpu0: family 5 model 3 step 5
>cpu0: ConnectixCPU  (586-class)
>real mem  = 14286848
>avail mem = 10510336
>using 200 buffers containing 819200 bytes of memory
>mainbus0 (root)
>pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
>pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
>pchb0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x122d (rev. 0x00)
>vendor 0x8086 product 0x122e (ISA bridge, revision 0x02) at pci0 dev 7 function 0 not configured
>vendor 0x8086 product 0x1230 (IDE mass storage, interface 0x80, revision 0x02) at pci0 dev 7 function 1 not configured
>vendor 0x5333 product 0x88b0 (VGA display) at pci0 dev 8 function 0 not configured
>de0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0: can't read ENET ROM (why=-4) (000000000000000000000000000000000000010100050228c304004100444534
>de0: 21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1
>de0: address unknown	[NB: Real Ethernet address of Mac is 0:5:2:28:c3:4]
>isa0 at mainbus0
>com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
>com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
>lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37b irq 7
>wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
>wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: <CntxCorpHD>
>wd0: 104MB, 973 cyl, 13 head, 17 sec, 512 bytes/sec
>wd0: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba addressing
>wdc1 at isa0 port 0x170-0x177 irq 15
>npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: error reporting broken; not using
>pcprobe: reset error 3
>pc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x6f irq 1: color
>fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
>fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
>fd1 at fdc0 drive 1: density unknown
>biomask c040 netmask c040 ttymask c0c2
>md0: internal 1537K image area
>boot device: fd0
>root on md0a dumps on md0b
>root file system type: ffs
>Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh:
>
>The net result, as can be seen, is that the emulated PCI devices (ISA bridge,
>IDE, and VGA display) are now all correctly found, and the emulated Ethernet
>is *almost* successfully probed and configured.
>
>One of the interesting things about the de0 message ("can't read ENET ROM")
>is that the string embedded with it does, actually, contain the real Ethernet
>address of the PowerMac (0:5:2:28:c3:4).

I just went through something similar to this on a Digital
Venturix FX-2.  It had the wrong checksum for the address
ROM.  My guess is that what is happening here.  I can give
you a diff which will make the right thing happen.
-- 
Matt Thomas               Internet:   matt@3am-software.com
3am Software Foundry      WWW URL:    http://www.3am-software.com/bio/matt.html
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