On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Stephen C. Brown wrote:

.. Hi,
.. 
.. I have tested it on my system(Q610).  The sonic driver appears NOT
.. to work there.  Perhaps it will work on a Q700 or some of the other
.. systems.
.. 
.. Allen, Denton, or whoever,
.. 
.. The sonic driver seems to be able to figure out the hardware address.
.. I can also ifconfig the netmask or broadcast address, etc.  But, as soon
.. as I try to ifconfig the internet address, it hangs the whole system,
.. without letting me drop into the debugger.  At that point only a power
.. cycle brings the machine back.  I'll be happy to run test kernels, or
.. testing apps, etc.

That's my experience as well: when trying to ifconfig the inet address,
the machine hangs: the debug switch does not pop you into ddb, but the
reset button does reset the computer. This is also on a Q610 with full
68040.

regards
Erik Bertelsen