Subject: Re: 660av/840av ethernet driver available for testing
To: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
From: Stefan Arentz <stefan.arentz@luna.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/30/1997 15:12:30
Oh bugger. We're working on the same thing. Anyhow, I'll test it tonight.

 - Stefan

On Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 08:02:22AM +0000, Dave Huang wrote:
> I've got a _very_ preliminary version of a Quadra AV onboard ethernet
> driver that I'd like some feedback on... I'd like to hear from folks
> with non-AV Macs too though. If you don't have an AV, hopefully my
> kernel should work as well as a GENERIC kernel (and it shouldn't find
> a "mc0" device during boot). And if you do have an AV, you should see
> a line similar to this one in your boot messages:
> 
> mc0 at obio0: address 08:00:07:06:39:ef
> 
> Hopefully, you'll be able to ifconfig mc0, ping, telnet, and do some
> other stuff too. The driver does seem to have trouble with large
> packets though (don't know exactly how large... over about 1400 bytes
> or so). I can't seem to ftp a file, for example.
> 
> The kernel is a GENERIC kernel from October 29th sources, except for
> the addition of my driver. Let me know if it works!
> 
> You can get it at: http://www.bga.com/~khym/netbsd/
> 
> I'm working on getting some space on an ftp site, so maybe it'll be up
> for ftp soon too.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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