On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Roger Brown wrote:

> Hello Dave.
> 
> How far did you actually get with the Performa? Is it in a state where
> either SLIP or PPP can be
> started on (say) the printer port?

No.


> I have a Performa 6200 with a 28,000 personal modem in the communications
> slot (hogs up the modem port as well, there is no UART on card), and a
> Asante Ethernet card in the LC slot.
> 
> You advise me last year that the Mach kernel was a hold up in allowing
> the LC ethernet card to be accessed. 

The mach kernel won't boot on these machines yet.  Last status was that I
had patched together interrupt controller support code that was untested. 
I then had booter problems and got stalled.  Then, school started and... 
well, things slowed way down.  :-)


David

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