Subject: Re: PB 3400c comments/questions
To: Michael G. Schabert <mikeride@mac.com>
From: Siobhan Elliott <chordchemist@znet.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/20/2002 06:51:37
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> >> Has anyone ever gotten any use out of the built-in port on a 3400
> >> under NetBSD, or will I simply have to throw a PCMCIA card into my
> >> case? Lord knows a un*x machine isn't much use w/o Ethernet ;-)
> >
> >That is very weird that you are having trouble. The builtin port on my
> >PB 3400c/240 (ethernet part of it at least, never tried playing with the
> >modem) has worked perfectly for me under NetBSD 1.5 and now 1.5.2 since
> >day 1.  I didn't have to do anything special (besides put
> >net_interfaces=de0 in /etc/rc.conf and make an /etc/ifconfig.de0 file...
> >the installer kernel had set it up as tlp0 I recall.), it Just Works...
> >
> >[19:08] sio@hooper% dmesg | grep de0
> >de0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0
> >de0: interrupting at irq 28
> >de0: 21041 [10Mb/s] pass 2.1
> >de0: address 00:a0:40:64:50:d6
> >de0: enabling 10baseT port
> >[19:08] sio@hooper% grep "^de" /usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/conf/hooper
> >de*     at pci? dev ? function ?        # DEC 21x4x-based Ethernet
> >[19:09] sio@hooper% ifconfig -a
> >de0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >        address: 00:a0:40:64:50:d6
> >        media: Ethernet 10baseT
> >        status: active
> >        inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
> >        inet6 fe80::2a0:40ff:fe64:50d6%de0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> >lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 33228
> >        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> ><SNIP>
> >
> >So, I dunno, but it does work on mine so please let me know if you have
> >any questions.
> 
> Hi there :-)
> 
> I'm glad that it works for you. That gives me the hope that I should 
> keep playing with it :-)

Cool =)

> You're using the de0 driver for it...were you getting the same error 
> that I did when trying to use the tulip driver, or was there another 
> reason that you compiled a kernel w/o the tulip support?

Erg, I don't think I ever actually tried to use Tulip post-install... =(
after installing and rebooting and seeing no tlp0 in dmesg but only de0,
I just used de0 instead.

- -Siobhan
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