Subject: Re: ifconfig bm0 on iMac
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 08/30/1999 16:56:30
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Dan Winship wrote:

> There's a problem with the bm driver (or more likely with the pci or
> obio code) that makes bm not work if you didn't netboot. There's a
> workaround for it in -current. I believe it should be in both the 0620
> snapshot and 1.4.1.

Well the problem is more that we assume that OF has configured the card
(set up the PCI mappings) when infact it hasn't.

To teach NetBSD how to do this in general is a big job. :-(

> If you want to stick with 1.4, you should be able to make it work by
> trying to netboot from Open Firmware before you boot normally. (It
> doesn't matter that it fails, IIRC.)

Right. Because OF will configure the card when that happens..

Take care,

Bill