I meant to say something on this. According to an update I saw,
ARCnet was added at 0.9, but I've not actually seen any
documentation on this. I've not used ARCnet since the early
90's. I didn't think it was still used!

Regards
Nigel

On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 12:14:34AM -0600, Richard Rauch wrote:
> Since no one else has answered, I thought that I'd say SOMETHING.
> 
> The short answer is: I don't know, but there is some hope.
> 
> The long answer is:
> 
> There appears to be support for Arcnet in
> /usr/src/sys/net/if_arc{.h,subr.c}.  (This is from a perusal of the
> sources for 1.5, released this past December.)
> 
> I cannot see any clear config option in the GENERIC config, however, to
> enable or disable it.  I cannot find a man-page offhand for it.  The files
> seem to be approximately one year old, indicating recent, but not current,
> changes.  Looking at the supported hardware NetBSD page (I assume that the
> arcnet cards you have are ISA?), I see nothing that proclaims itself to be
> an arcnet card.  You might browse some of the supported hardware pages,
> yourself, if you know the name of the card(s) that you are concerned
> about, and what bus they use: http://www.netbsd.org/Hardware/
> 
> Have you tried running NetBSD on a machine with an Arcnet interface on it?  
> If so, look at the output of dmesg (/sbin/dmesg | more) to see if it looks
> like the system is able to find your arcnet card.  Also, which version of
> NetBSD are you using?
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> 
>   "I probably don't know what I'm talking about." --rauch@eecs.ukans.edu

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