Subject: Re: SONIC DP83934 based cards
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Warren Volz <wizard@ccsi.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/17/1997 19:30:43
>Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 19:13:44 -0600
>To: "Colin Wood" <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
>From: Warren Volz <wizard@ccsi.com>
>Subject: Re: SONIC DP83934 based cards
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>>Warren Volz wrote:
>>
>>> 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).
>
>Colin,
> I looked for this chip and I can not find one on it.
>
>>> 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?
>
>The keyboard is a extended generic keyboard and a generic mouse (both came
>from a MOT Mac clone...). The mac is a IIx with 8megs of ram and two
>internal 80meg HD's. It has a odd video card in it, but otherwise nothing
>else is weird. It hangs on the 2nd line of ADB detect code. I dont
>remember the exact lines, but I should have it for you in a couple of
>days. Thanks for any help you can give!
>
>Warren
>
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