At 16:02 +0200 24-09-1997, Allen Briggs wrote:
>> Creating a /dev/ae0 won't help.  If the kernel's autoconfig process says
>> that the device is not configured, there's nothing you can do to make it
>> work, short of writing/updating the driver to recognize the card.
>>
>> I'm kinda surprised, though, since your chip's number looks like it should
>> be supportable by the current driver.  :(
>
>The chip is supported, but the card itself is not a known quantity.  The
>manufacturers made a few choices that we need to determine.  Where did
>they put the 83902's registers?  Where did they put the ethernet ID
>PROM?  Where is the base of the RAM on the card?  Some cards are the
>same as others.  Once those questions are answered, the code can be
>added to if_ae_nubus.c and the card will be "supported."

If someone tells me how to do this work, I will be very happy   :)

>Does the card work with the default Apple drivers in MacOS, or did you
>need to load a special driver to get it to work?

The card works fine with system 7.1 (and original Apple drivers) plus
MacTCP 2.0.6.  Only a crash occurred with Anarchie 2.

Thank you

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