Hi there,

I have - as the sucject indicates - a Pulsar, ( or Supermac S900 as it 
seems to be called elsewhere ) with 2 ppc 604e processors, didn't try 
NetBSD yet because I didn't get the OpenFirmware to use my video board 
(OF: MTRX,Millennium with 4MB ) as output and have neither a RS422<->
RS232 adaptor not some other Mac to use as a terminal.
My question is - is there any support for the Mercury card ( a custom 
part made by UMAX with a UW SCSI controller and a Fast Ethernet 
controller, sometimes called E100, fits into a special PCI slot with 
some extra pins to make it look like two PCI cards ) ? Any OS I tried 
sees the card as two independent PCI devices but fails to use any of 
them, the Linux ( 2.2.21, amy 2.4.x crashes on startup ) driver sees 
the Ethernet part as a DEC 21140 but complains about some RAM check, 
the kernel module loads fine but doesn't get my switch to see a carrier 
( and seems not to send any packet ). The SCSI part is in OF speak a 
FWB,JackHammer, in PCI speak a Qlogic ISP. The Linux driver just 
doesn't see it, but that particular driver seems to be far from 
hardware independant, tested on Intel only, maybe it just chokes about 
interrupt 26 or so, didn't dig further. Under BeOS 5.0.3 it looks 
similar - it sees a DEC 21140 but doesn't get the line to life and 
fails to transmit anything, and the SCSI part is ignored.
So, the Ethernet part seems to need some additional voodoo and the SCSI 
part seems to be heavily customized by UMAX. ( strange thing is that 
MacOS activates the line only when some protocol actually uses it, the 
onboard Ethernet is active as soon as OF sees it )
At least the SCSI part seems to have full OF support because MacOS 
boots from it without problems, the Ethernet part shows up al pci0x0x 
with 0x being vendor and device ID that I can't check right now but it 
looks like OF doesn't really care about it ( didn't try netbooting, I 
think it won't work anyway )

thanks in advance
Michael