heh... i don't have particulars...
i had issues with my NFS box ... (rather was trying to upgrade it from a
DX40) ... (looking for a K6/2 chip, btw) ...  :)
IPslave to DHCP boot off network...  gotta love it...
my site is down, unfortunately, in which i had a great kernel that one of
the big guys compiled...  :)
Thanks for the offer.... working on NetBSD/macppc right now, though, and
don't have free time.  :)

n8


On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Nathan Mahon wrote:

> 
> multi user mode?!
> nice.
> I never got it going... though it was in single mode rather well...
> 
> :)
> n8
> 
> 
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Andy Michaels wrote:
> 
> > Holy $H1T!!, that was it.  I set the card to 10MBit full-duplex and it now
> > boots into multiuser mode.
> > FYI, 
> > I used the userland tarballs from 01/16/2001.  haven't tried the June
> > distro yet.  I also used the kernel that Chuck Silvers posted today.
> > 
> > I noticed that the NIC worked much more slowly when I forced
> > full-duplex.  Interesting.
> > 
> > cheers
> > 
> > Andy
> > 
> > /*
> > ** A N D Y . M I C H A E L S
> > **
> > ** L E G O  AT  G T I  DOT  N E T
> > **
> > ** http://www.gti.net/lego
> > */
> > 
> > On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Andy Michaels wrote:
> > 
> > > Cool, actually, I started snooping around and discovered how to set it
> > > myself (a testament to the quality of the documentation of NetBSD)  I'll
> > > give it a shot.  thanks again,
> > > 
> > > andy
> > > 
> > > /*
> > > ** A N D Y . M I C H A E L S
> > > **
> > > ** L E G O  AT  G T I  DOT  N E T
> > > **
> > > ** http://www.gti.net/lego
> > > */
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Andrew Gillham wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:41:00AM -0400, Andy Michaels wrote:
> > > > > nope, didn't try that.  How would one go about hardcoding the interface to
> > > > > 10Mbit?  Thanks,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Andy
> > > > 
> > > > If the server is NetBSD use: 'ifconfig xyz0 media utp'
> > > > Actually utp is an alias for '10baseT', but you can look at the possible
> > > > media types with 'ifconfig -m xyz0'.
> > > > You can see what media is currently in use by looking at the line that begins
> > > > with 'media:' and look for the value inside the parentheses.
> > > > e.g.: 
> > > > 	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
> > > > 
> > > > This is in auto-negotiation mode and has negotiated 100Mbit/s full-duplex with
> > > > the other end.
> > > > 
> > > > -Andrew
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
>