Hello,

> >Hmm, just a thought - does it appear again after a really hard reset (
> >read: power cycle ) ?
> 
> I thought about this too, some sort of setting that stays resident until a
> power cycle. Powering down and back up does not revert the behavior when I
> boot with the patches. Soft rebooting after a successful mace establishment
> and then booting into GENERIC does not continue the interface operations.
Strange, so it's something else :/

> I think the AAUI part comes in with the chipset. There is something at the
> back of my mind that AAUI had priority. I do seem to remember once when I
> had an ethernet cable in both the 10BaseT and the AAUI ports connected to a
> hub and the AAUI port was where the traffic went. That was some six or
> eight years ago, though.
Hmm, as far as I remember all OldWorld PowerMacs with mc have AAUI, but only a handful have the RJ45 jack - the onboard transceiver may be different for different models... (just thinking)

have fun
Michael