Subject: Re: SONIC DP83934 based cards
To: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
From: Michael R Zucca <mrz5149@cs.rit.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/17/1997 15:28:29
> > I have a ethernet NB card for a IICx... Everything goes ok until it 
> > recognizes the card and then I have to restart the machine... Does 1.3 
> > suppor tthis?
> 
> Hmmmm...maybe not.  Does the card have an MC68000 on it in addition to the
> SONIC chip?  If so, NetBSD doesn't support it.  If it only has the
> DP8393? on it, then it can probably be made to work with 1.3A without too
> much trouble (if it doesn't work already).
> 
> > I tried the latest beat kernel but it wouldnt go past the 
> > adb recognition phase...
> 
> What kind of ADB devices do you have?  What kind of Mac?  What are the
> lines around the area where it hangs?

I think it might be possible to support the NB Ethernet card with the 68000
on it. I think I recall something about being able to see the hardware from
NuBus space. If that's true then it's just a special case of most other
cards -> the chip base address is just in a different spot.