Subject: Re: Sonic Ethernet Boot failure (fwd)
To: Andrew Brennan <brennan@crashprone.hahnemann.edu>
From: Don Woodward Jr. <dbwoodw@earthlink.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/30/1996 17:57:17
>On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Don Woodward Jr. wrote:
>
>> Just wanted to report a failure on booting with a Sonic "Ether TWP LC" card
>> - P/N 01-SSC-0404. The system booted to the following and hung:
>>
>> ae0 at nubus0: address ab:ba:5f:f7:fb:bf, type Ethernet A-series, 16k mem.

Andrew Brennan wrote...

>
>   Are you sure it's actually being recognized correctly?  I just checked
>   the (ok, so it's ancient) IEEE list of vendor prefixs and AB-BA-5F is
>   not on the list for anyone - Sonic or otherwise.


I haven't been able to test it yet but it no longer hangs thanks to a test
kernal given to me. Open Transport reports it's address as
00:40:10:07:4F:EB.

-- Don



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