>I have two questions:
>
>1. what is the story about MacBSD support for MacIIfx?
Nope, don't even think about it
>2. what is the story about ethernet support on MacIIx?
Great, mine's running on 193.78.85.3

>This is what I am trying to do:
>
>the kernel from netBSD-1.0 boots on a borrowed macIIx
>        (it's owner was really happy to get my macIIfx
>        in exchange :-) but I cannot get the eithernet
>        network to function: about 10 seconds after I type
>        root> ifconfig ae0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
i created /etc/hostname.ae0 witch contains:
inet <your machine's name>
>        I see the message (approximately) "ethernet ring buffer overflow"
>        and the machine freezes.

??? don't know

>I tried to boot newer kernels (from NetBSD-current and from ftp.eskimo.com)
>        but neither of them boot- they hang after complaining about
>        my graphics card. I can give more details if anybody wants them.

use booter 1.6, also on eskimo!
what kind of graphics card?
grtns noud

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