Subject: Re: Ethernet for LC II
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/08/1999 15:47:53
Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Colin Wood wrote:
> 
> > Christos Ricudis wrote:
> > > While browsing through the kernel configuration options I saw some option
> > > for a SCSI Ethernet device. Looking for an example of those, I found at
> > > e-bay several Asante EN/SC SCSI-to-Ethernet devices that seem to be used
> > > exactly to network some of these Macintoshes. 
> > > 
> > > Are any of these supported on NetBSD ? 
> > 
> > i don't believe we support any of the mac SCSI-Ethernet adapters.  we have
> > a basic driver, but i believe they all use proprietary protocols which no
> > one is willing to publicly document :-(
> 
> I thought we supported one kind of SCSI-Ethernet adapter, though it was
> NOT the Asante one. One did document its protocol. But Asante wouldn't..

that sounds familiar, but i'm not entirely sure that particular adapter
was sold as a mac adapter (at least i seem to remember that it wasn't...)

-colin