Ken and Masami Nakata <masami@fa2.so-net.or.jp> wrote:

>On Wed, 23 Apr 1997 16:47:15 -0500,
>Michel Chalufour <michelc@tiac.net> wrote:
>> I'd like to set up ethernet between two macs (a Centris 650 and a Mac-II)
>> running NetBSD. I have a 3Com EtherLink/NB card installed in each one and
>> they work fine in Mac OS but have had no luck getting them to talk to each
>> other in NetBSD--don't know whether I am just misconfiguring things or
>> whether they can't work in NetBSD.
>
>No expert can tell you anything wrong with your set-up with this much of
>information.  Exactly _how_ do they not work?

Sorry my description was so vague, I just was hoping someone might know the
3Com card   and could say whether there's a chance it can work with NetBSD.
In Mac OS the 2 computers can share files and launch applications, so the
ethernet hardware and connections (thin wire 10Base-2) for the two-computer
network appear to be working in that environment. When both computers are
booted in NetBSD I can communicate between the two via serial wire and
pppd, with ping, ftp, telnet working nornally (albeit slowly), but when I
try  the same over the ethernet wire there seems to be no communication and
I get the following message from ping:

centris# ping macii
PING macii.mynet (10.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
Apr 24 11:58:05 centris /netbsd: ae0: device timeout
Apr 24 11:58:05 centris /netbsd: ae0: device timeout
ping: sendto failed: Host is down
ping: sendto failed: Host is down
ping: sendto failed: Host is down
ping: sendto failed: Host is down
ping: sendto failed: Host is down
ping: sendto failed: Host is down
ping: sendto failed: Host is down
ping: sendto failed: Host is down
^C
----macii.mynet PING Statistics----
14 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

Is there a faq or other information that someone could point me to that
would help in the configuration of the kernel, /etc/rc.conf and/or other
/etc files that ethernet requires?

>
>> The ethernet chip is an 8390 (actually marked DP8390CN) and the 3Com card
>> is listed in the Ethernet status list as working in the Mac-IIci.
>
>This sounds good so far.
>
>Ken

If the 3Com card does work in the IIci as the Ethernet Status List
indicates, is there any reason it won't work in my Mac-II and my Centris
650.

Again, thanks in advance for any suggestions.



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Michel Chalufour
michelc@tiac.net