On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Tank wrote:

> Well, because there was no kernel level support for SONIC based ethernet
> cards, I gave in and purchased a card that was on the supported list (The
> Asante MacConi NB-10T), however, NetBSD now crashes during boot while
> trying to mount the ae0 device.  There is no error message, it just freezes
> at the line:
>    ae0 at nubus0: address 00:00:94:60:e6:19, type MacCon NuBus-A, 32k Mem.

I used to get this error when I was running my IIci with a video card.  I 
could run with the video card (but no ethernet).  I could run with the 
internal video and the ethernet.  But I could not use the  
external video and the ethernet card.

Also, I needed a kernel that was happy about my internal video. . . . 
NFS kernel worked but no serial ports :-(  Generic 50 kernel did the 
trick for me.  Now I have my ethernet working, and internal video.  My 16"
E-machines video card is sitting on a heap of ISA scsi, ide, sound  and lan 
cards in my home office:-(

It's much faster to telnet into my 1.1BSD IIci from my powermac 
than it is to display on my IIci locally (X, dt, or console).  I also have a 
color X server on my Mac and on my Linux machines, which is a bit more 
flexible (1278 x 1024) and easy on the eyes.

Defnitely want to get it working.

> 
> Can someone PLEASE help me get this thing running..... I figured by installing
> a supported ethercard, I'd be able to "coast" through the rest of the
> install, but.......

Not there yet.  You'll still have to run ifconfig and set up your network 
services.  I don't have a router so I'm just setting the NetBSD mac as 
the default router on my PowerMac.

--Adam