I had to ditch buggy on board mc0 recently in favor of a PCI based
DE500 card, which shows up as de0.  So far it seems to work nicely
with NetBSD 1.5.x in my powermac 7300.  $15 on ebay.

-russ

Daniel Eggert <danieleggert@mac.com> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've tried both the on-board and two PCI network adapters listed in the Install Notes for 1.6 as supported. None of them work.
> 
> Can anybody tell me of a card that _does_ work?
> 
> 
> I'm running on a Apple Network Server 700. Here are the ones I've had no luck with:
> 
> on-board                   mc(4)    chip-resets constantly
> Apple PCI Ethernet Card    tlp(4)   NetBSD hangs on executing 'ifconfig -a'
> Netgear FA-311             sip(4)   once configured, I get 'parity error' messages faster than I can count
> 
> 
> All help / suggestions are appreciated.
> 
> Daniel
> 

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