>Because I just thought of the EtherWave idea as I was typing, and failed
>to account for all the benefits/ramifications of having the two Macs
>Ethernet together...
>
>In my case, it wouldn't hurt to bring along a null modem cable just in
>case, since I'm a newbie and have zero experience in UNIX networking.

Heh, true, it never hurts to be prepared for everything ;-). Especially
since, unless you know that it's supported or have tried it already, you
can't be sure that your EtherNet card will work under NetBSD.


>IIRC, the school provides two 10B-T port per dorm room (one per
>student). Would EtherWave be the way to go in this setup? What would the
>actual topology be? (Haven't used/seen EtherWave before.)

That depends on whether your roomie needs his port or not. If both are free
for you to use, then it'd be a waste to buy the EtherWaves. You could just
hook up each computer to the network. For home use (i.e. not connected to
any computers besides the two) you can use a "reversed" ethernet cable.
This lets you use 10base-T Ethernet without a hub (or the EtherWaves). All
it does is reverse the send pair and the receive pair on one end of the
cable so that send on 1 computer goes to receive on the other & vice versa.

>Apparently there is a freeware X server (PPC native) called MI/X,
>available at <http://www.microimages.com/>. I'll probably try that
>first.

Cool, I don't have a PPC machine, & I didn't know of it. In looking on my
port-Mac68k mailbox, I see that it is 68k native too :) :).

>Why does the IIci's video card matter, if the video display server is
>running on the 7100?

The 7100 is acting as little more than a dumb terminal, while the
applications are running on the IIci. I'm not sure if the card is required
for NetBSD to understand color in order to send it to the 7100. Someone
else said that he didn't think it was required, & I'm not positive. I run
under internal video on a Quadra 840 AV (B&W only), so I can't test it. If
I had not just given back my PowerBook, I could have tested it, but oh,
well. Bottom line is that I'm guessing. Any comments from the real experts
in port Mac68k?

Mike

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