After having a lot of fun logged on to the MacII from a Color Classic on
the worlds smallest ethernet, I tried a few things this morning that may
help determine the cause of the problem.

There is definitely a problem with the Samsung full page video card and
ethernet cards.

If I have the ethernet card (currently an apple card) in a lower numbered
slot than the Samsung card, NetBSD boots, but trying to access the ethernet
card crashes the machine.

If I pull the video card, everything works ok (so far)

If I have the ethernet card  in a higher numbered slot than the video card,
the boot sequence hangs just after:

ad0 .....  ( the whole line prints, returns, and hangs on the next line)

Could it be some sort of conflict in the interrupt handling scheme for
these two cards?

A toby frame buffer card, also installed, seems to have no effect on any of
this, but I haven't tried all the combinations yet.

Brad

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