Kevin Diggs <kevdig@rcn.com> writes:

> When you say "buggy on board mc0", do you mean hardware or NetBSD
> driver?

All indications pointed to a hardware problem.

-russ

> russell_mcmanus@yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> > 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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> 

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