On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, David A. Gatwood wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Jeff Hergan wrote:
> 
> > > That was quite noble of you. You're a good man.
> > 
> > Thanks, but if it weren't for the same sort of help, I would never have 
> > figured out to how to run Linux, and then NetBSD.  So I kinda owe 
> > someone.
> 
> Standardd open source karma points apply.
> 
> 
> > Well, we got it to work as 192.168.150.2  But now, given what he wants 
> > to do with the machine we'll have to change that to use DHCP  and go 
> > from there.  And that's not gonna be easy because as soon as he logs 
> > into NetBSD and makes the ip change, he's not going to be able to 
> > communicate with me unless the DHCP thing just works.
> 
> Blech.  With people selling nubus ethernet cards for under U.S. $10 apiece
> on eBay, having only one card is just not worth it unless his machine
> doesn't have another slot.  (I didn't catch which machine it was.)
> Definitely worth looking into.

Oh, sorry, thought this was port-mac68k.  s/nubus/pci/g and the point
still applies, except they're a heck of a lot easier to get.  Again,
assuming there's a free slot for one.


David

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