Hello from Gregg C Levine usually with Jedi Knight Computers
ifconfig -m reports this message, SIOCGIFFLAGS 3c509b: device not
configured, and this is preposterous because the network is being
initialized according to the messages that the boot process prints out. When
I configured it, using the whole process that I used to install the
software, the boot disk, everything went okay. And I will take your word for
it, friend, that AUI is a supported part of NetBSD. It better, the original
animal is still running over in Berkeley. That is, thicknet, which is AUI
attached, and based, is being used there, and the OS got started there.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-net-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:tech-net-owner@netbsd.org]On
> Behalf Of der Mouse
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 8:18 PM
> To: Gregg C Levine
> Cc: tech-net@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Networking support for NetBSD
>
>
> > I realize that this is possibly a stupid question, but here goes: Is
> > there a list of networking standards, that are not supported by
> > NetBSD?
>
> Unlikely.
>
> > Obviously Ethernet _is_ one of the supported ones.  But I have a
> > combo version of a 3COM 3C509B card, and one of those connectors is
> > an AUI type of connector.
>
> I'm not sure what you're saying - I'm not sure what the problem is.
> Are you saying NetBSD doesn't support AUI?  (If so, that's definitely
> false; I use it daily.)  But really, support for AUI - or much of
> Ethernet, for that matter - is more a matter of the hardware than the
> software; it's a matter for software only when the hardware is capable
> of it but does so only when explicitly told to by the software.  Such
> hardware exists, and some of it is supported by NetBSD; there doubtless
> exists other hardware with the capability that NetBSD does not support.
>
> As for your 3c509b, you may have to explicitly set the media type; what
> does ifconfig -m report for it?
>
> 					der Mouse
>
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