Re: DS-207 network failure

[Julian Coleman <jdc%coris.org.uk@localhost>]

Hi,

> My altboot driver is based on the NetBSD kernel driver, so it might not
> reveal any new insight.

Yep ;-)  I initially assumed that the kernel driver would work ...
 
> Especially because according to Oscar Molin the kernel driver doesn't work
> either! So I would rather compare with SK98 or PPCBoot (although they are
> hard to read).

... but then I read that too.

> It would be interesting if you find the time to repeat Oscar's sk kernel
> driver test. Load the install kernel with Kermit into memory, then boot
> it with altboot via "mem:<address>". Enter the shell and use ifconfig
> and ping to test the driver.

I will try that over the weekend.  I think that it would be interesting to
run `tcpdump` as well, to see if we can even see any packets on the network.

Thanks,

J

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