At 09:02 PM 6/6/2000 -0400, Michael B. Wolfson wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Jaffer Razvi wrote:
>
> > Hello. According to the Netbsd for PPC on Model support page, the G4 is
> > supported. However what does this part mean exact?
> > "Only supported in -current Built-in GMAC ethernet may not be supported"
> >
> > Does this mean that ethernet is not supported??
>
>As far as I can tell from posts here, the built-in ethernet is not
>supported yet, you'd need to use a PCI ethernet card.  The standard
>distributions (1.4.2 is the latest) does not support it.  You need to
>compile (or somehow else get) a new kernel from -current source.  See
><http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/kernel/>
>
>Every once in a while, someone builds a snapshot of -current, to be found
>in <ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/macppc/snapshot/> although there
>aren't any recent enough to support G4.
>
>Any chance someone could build a new snapshot?  The last was in Feb.

I have one building now.
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