Subject: Re: Network connection for NetBSD under Fusion
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: Paul Newhouse <newhouse@rockhead.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/31/2007 02:51:26
>  
>  Paul Newhouse wrote:
>  > There doesn't seem to be any device available.  Can someone give me
>  > a heads how to get a network device exported into NetBSD from
>  > Fusion/OS X??  
>  
>  As you know, NetBSD is booting on a machine, probing it to find out what
>  the "hardware" has that it can use.  The first place to look is in the
>  dmesg, to see what devices it found.  (Perhaps you know that; it wasn't
>  clear from your message.) 

Thanks, I did know that just didn't think of it.

>  Poking around, it looks like you might be able to use le(4). 

found it pcn(4)

A little more screwing around and I can probably get X working *8^)

Paul N.

>  http://pubs.vmware.com/guestnotes/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm
>  
>  The MS-DOS notes say to use "Advanced Micro Devices PCNET Family
>  (NDIS2/NDIS3) Ethernet driver"  
>  
>  http://www.netbsd.org/support/hardware/pci.html includes:
>  
>  Advanced Micro Devices Am79c970 PCnet-PCI and other members of the
>  PCnet-PCI family (le(4))
>  
>  HTH....
>  
>  --jkl