No, at least it shouldn't be since I've never used the AppleTalk capability.
I'll double-check.  Say, your question brings up an important point - 
Is NetBSD supporting ANY TCP/IP over LocalTalk features?  If not, I may
end up having to scrap this whole program.

Rich

> One thing i haven't noticed in the other comments--do you have appletalk
> connected?  on my IIci, the apple-talk shielding option for booting
> doesn't really ignore it; it just changes the crash point.  I have to
> power off the printer for it to work.
> 
> rick
> 
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