Subject: Re: Q660AV ethernet question
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Salvatore Mancini <salvatore@bellatlantic.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/29/2000 08:09:47
the supported hardware list on the netbsd(or is it the macbsd?) site lists both
840av and 660av as having unsupported onboard ethernet. The link I am thinking of
leads straight from the faq

Sal

Dave Huang wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, jean-michel meyer wrote:
> > I have the opportunity to get a Quadra 660 AV for running NetBSD.
> >
> > It seem reading the site that the onboard Sonic DP83932 ethernet port is
> > not supported.
>
> The onboard ethernet is not a Sonic, it's an AMD MACE. And it has been
> supported by the mc driver since NetBSD 1.3... where did you read that
> it wasn't supported?
>
> > The Q660AV has three nubus port, but just one is avaible.
> >
> > but i need two ethernet ports (one to a hub, one to a cable "modem").
>
> I haven't done it myself, but you should be able to put a NuBus ethernet
> card in it using the NuBus adapter, giving you two ethernet
> ports. Actually, I seem to remember reading on the mailing list that
> someone has done just that :)
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