Subject: Re: Ethernet cards
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/29/1999 12:49:44
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Dan Winship wrote:

> > 3) Would anyone like to share their good experiences with their ethernet
> > cards so I know which one to buy?
> 
> You're going to need something that has Open Firmware support if you
> want to boot off it. I'm not sure you'll be able to find anything
> other than the iMac and later built-in ethernet that does that...

Older machines should be able to do it, though probably only with internal
(Apple-supplied) ethernet. If the machine didn't have Apple-supplied
ethernet, you're probably SOL. Also, the older machines can only load
xcoff files, which we can't generate right now.

Take care,

Bill