Subject: Re: Performa
To: Matthew Browne <matthewb@ihug.co.nz>
From: David A. Gatwood <dgatwood@deepspace.mklinux.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/29/2000 21:35:03
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Matthew Browne wrote:

> At 8:59 PM -0800 29/3/2000, David A. Gatwood wrote:
> >I deleted the original email, but with regards to that machine, my efforts
> >to bring the 52/62/53/63xx family up in MkLinux were hampered by ethernet
> >problems and the failure of my PowerBook's floppy drive (which has since
> >been replaced, but they still won't hold a kernel uncompressed, are slow,
> >etc...).
> >
> >So this question is a little off-topic, but does anyone know where I could
> >get drivers for the comm-slot ethernet hardware in those things?  I
> >couldn't get it to recognize that there was a network on the other end,
> >and I suspect possibly a driver problem.  I can't tell who made it -- I'm
> >guessing Apple, but there's no brand name, and it's olmost entirely just a
> >Sonic 83934 on a card....
> 
> I believe I have both an Apple CS ethernet extension and an
> Asante driver for their comm-slot 10Base2 ethernet card around.
> I can hunt them down and send them to you if you'd like.

Sure.  Thanks.  :-)

Now to run an ethernet cable again....


David

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