Subject: Re: What Network Cards Work -- Install documentation is wrong
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From: Kevin Diggs <kevdig@rcn.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/24/2002 23:46:32
Hi,

    When you say "buggy on board mc0", do you mean hardware or NetBSD driver?

                    kevin

russell_mcmanus@yahoo.com wrote:

> I had to ditch buggy on board mc0 recently in favor of a PCI based
> DE500 card, which shows up as de0.  So far it seems to work nicely
> with NetBSD 1.5.x in my powermac 7300.  $15 on ebay.
>
> -russ
>
> Daniel Eggert <danieleggert@mac.com> writes:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've tried both the on-board and two PCI network adapters listed in the Install Notes for 1.6 as supported. None of them work.
> >
> > Can anybody tell me of a card that _does_ work?
> >
> >
> > I'm running on a Apple Network Server 700. Here are the ones I've had no luck with:
> >
> > on-board                   mc(4)    chip-resets constantly
> > Apple PCI Ethernet Card    tlp(4)   NetBSD hangs on executing 'ifconfig -a'
> > Netgear FA-311             sip(4)   once configured, I get 'parity error' messages faster than I can count
> >
> >
> > All help / suggestions are appreciated.
> >
> > Daniel
> >
>
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