Subject: Re: List of working LC PDS?
To: Bob Nestor <rnestor@augustmail.com>
From: Erik Winkler <ewinkler@erols.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/08/2000 20:35:34
Bob Nestor wrote:

> Colin Wood  (cwood@ichips.intel.com) wrote:
>
> >Bob Nestor wrote:
> >> Levi Sluder  (eclipse@trellis.net) wrote:
> >>
> >> >Hey, I have NetBSD/Mac68k working on my LC III (Finally) and I'm going
> >> >to buy a LC PDS ethernet card. Does anyone know which card(s) DOES work?
> >> >I'm buying off ebay so I can hold out until I find a brand that I know
> >> >works. Thanks...
> >>
> >> Check the database on www.macbsd.com.  Also look around on
> >> www.netbsd.org, there is a farily current list of working cards there too.
> >
> >i don't think there's a good list of working cards for the LCIII, tho.
> >probably b/c i haven't had too many people tell me what works on their
> >machines...
>
> My apologies.  I've tested a number of cards and posted my finding a
> couple of times so I thought it had been included.  Here's what I wrote
> last time this came up:
>
> In the mac68k port I've tested and used the following:
>
> With the "ae" driver the Asante MacCON-III+ card in a PDS LC-II/III slot.
> This card uses the ST-NIC DP83902AV chip.
>
> With the "sn" driver the Apple LC Twisted-pair (part #820-0532-A) card in
> a PDS LC-II/III slot.  This card uses the Sonic DP83934BVUL chip.
>
> Cards which didn't work:
>
> The last time I tested it the Dayna card model #m0437z/b which uses the
> Sonic DP83934AVQB chip was partially recognized by the "ae" driver, but
> was not functional. This was last tested with a 1.3.2 kernel.  This was
> also a PDS LC-11/III slot card.

The above card still doesn't work with a 1.4.1 kernel. It is recognized by the
ae driver, but an unable to determine memory size error prevents initialization.

Erik

>
>
> Also the Newertech LC10 never worked in the PDS slot.  It wasn't even
> recognized during kernel probe.
>
> hope this helps,
> -bob