Hello Dave.

How far did you actually get with the Performa? Is it in a state where
either SLIP or PPP can be
started on (say) the printer port?

I have a Performa 6200 with a 28,000 personal modem in the communications
slot (hogs up the modem port as well, there is no UART on card), and a
Asante Ethernet card in the LC slot.

You advise me last year that the Mach kernel was a hold up in allowing the
LC ethernet card to
be accessed.

I could live with PPP (not via a modem, but across to a MacIIvx running
NetBSD).

So, actually, if the machine came up with no floppy, no screen or keyboard,
only a terminal on the printer port, which could then be switched over to
PPP or SLIP, that would be enough (of course
and a complete set of GNU tools etc..).....

Regards

Roger
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>From: "David A. Gatwood" <dgatwood@deepspace.mklinux.org>
>To: port-macppc@netbsd.org
>Subject: Re: Performa
>Date: Thu, Mar 30, 2000, 4:59 pm
>

>
>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....
>
>
>Later,
>David
>
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