Greg Evans wrote:
> To shortly answer my own question earlier...
> 
> I _finally_ made it to the ethernet status page this morning (couldn't 
> connect before/after I sent the last message re: ethernet to the list.
> 
> so, my problem remains....
> 
> ae0 at nubus0 slot a: failed to determine size of RAM
> ae0 at nubus0 slot c: failed to determine size of RAM
> ae0 at nubus0 slot e: failed to determine size of RAM
> 
> at startup.

The above is _really_ quite strange....
 
> My question this time is a little different.  I have pulled the ethernet 
> card fromthe machine in hopes of finding it being supported on the 
> ethernet status page.  Here is what I have came up with and am hoping 
> that one of the ethernet gurus can tell me this would be asy to support.
> 
> My Card:  
> 
> Brand           : Asante 
> Type            : MacCon for LC
> Apparent Chipset: DP83932BVF
> (Little Square Chip just left and below center when looking at card with 
> nubus connector on right and rj45 port away from me)
> 
> I have noticed that on the ethernet status page that the Quadra 610,650, 
> 700 and 800 use the DP83932 (sonic) and that the following also have 
> similar(?) chipsets.
> 
> Cayman    GatorcardPDS   SE/30     DP83932(Sonic)
> Dayna     DaynaPortE/30  SE/30     DP83932VF (Sonic)
> 
> Now finally down to the question....
> 
> How difficult would it be to add support for this card, so that I can add 
> this little guy to my
> little at home Network?

The problem appears to be that the ae driver is matching this card, when
it should be the sn driver.  The ae driver is only for the DP8390, not the
DP83932.  That's probably why it can't determine the size of onboard
memory:  it's looking in the wrong place.

Hopefully, one of the networking gurus will know a little more about
this....Allen?

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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