Subject: Re: install NetBSD on quadra 630 or newbie to port-mac68k
To: Cameron Kaiser <spectre@stockholm.ptloma.edu>
From: webmaster@datazap.net <webmaster@datazap.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/17/2002 23:59:19
Hi,

> > > What's the brand and chipset? That will help considerably :-)
>
> > It is an Apple ethernet CS AAUI card 630-0736-B (CommSlot), and the
> > chipset is Sonic (DP83916VNF-LP). NetBSD 1.6 seems to configure the card
> > at bootup.
>
> There is a test kernel link at
>
> 	http://www.macbsd.com/macbsd/macbsd-docs/ethernet.html
>
> for the "Apple LC/Comm Slot" card. While there is support for the Sonic
> DP83932, I don't think the -16 is supported yet by the standard kernel
> (someone correct me here).
>
> By crash, I am assuming you mean you get dumped to the debugger or some
> such, or does it hang outright? Sometimes the broken FPU support on LC040's
> can manifest like that, too.

It just hangs outright. I had the mother board out today to pull the
ethernet card, I guess I should have taken a better look at the cpu. If
its a LC040 it should say on the cpu, right?

Thanks,
Al