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