Silly me. The stupid ethernet card wasn't entirely seated in the expansion 
slot! Well, that saves me from having to buy a new CD-ROM drive. And now X 
doesn't work... but I'll figure that out somehow.

Regards,
John

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Michael Lorenz wrote:

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> On Nov 7, 2006, at 16:26, John wrote:
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>> I just acquired a Performa 6400. After reading the instructions, I 
>> installed an ATI Rage 128, changed openfirmware variables, etc. Long story 
>> short, I finally got NetBSD 3.1 installed on a machine whose CD-ROM drive 
>> seems to be failing (but that's another issue).
>> 
>> So I installed a RealTek 8129 based ethernet card in the remaining PCI 
>> slot. I'm wondering whether or not the GENERIC kernel includes drivers for 
>> this card.
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> It should, GENERIC has rtk* at pci?
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> have fun
> Michael
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