Subject: Re: Daynaport
To: None <briggs@puma.macbsd.com>
From: Masami Nakata <masami@fa2.so-net.or.jp>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/06/1997 17:06:34
On Sat, 5 Apr 1997 19:46:08 -0500,
Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.macbsd.com> wrote:
> > > does the Daynaport e/ii work under netbsd? i am looking for just abouut 
> > > any nuubus ethernet card that will work...
> > 
> > I don't have any record of it working, but if it's based on the DP8390 or 
> > some variant thereof, it'll probably work just fine under NetBSD, 
> > assuming you don't have any video boards with which it might conflict.
> 
> Note that some SONIC cards should be very close to working, thanks to
> Denny's work in getting his card up and running.  Don't you (xiamin)
> have a Quadra or Centris?  Do you not have internal ethernet?  That's
> very close to working, too...

Besides this reason, there's another reason for xiamin *not* to buy
the DaynaPORT E/II: it's SONIC based, just like the internal ethenet ;-)

Ken