At 12:56 -0400 08/09/2004, Brian Hechinger wrote:

>unless someone else can speak up and say that Kansas board won't properly
>netboot, i am going to assume a broken mace.  that's slightly annoying since
>it makes setting up a boot-disk a little more trouble than it need to be.

The ethernet support resides in the CURIO chip, which is a custom 
chip from AMD.   The markings on the chip are AM79C950K...   This 
chip provides support for the unenhanced SCSI (5 MB/s), ethernet, and 
the serial ports.   It was used in many Apple models going back to 
the NuBus PowerMacs at least (6100, 7100 and 8100) and possibly in 
some of the late Quadra models (840, 660?).  It is also found on the 
7200.

Anyway, the point is that if the ethernet component of the CURIO chip 
failed, there are many models of old Mac from which the chip could be 
salvaged.  Of course, one would need the ability to desolder and 
solder ~160 pin QFP chips, but that's not as hard as it sounds--a 
little tedious.

Jeff Walther