Subject: Re: Ethernet for AV Macs: Test Kernel Available
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/27/1997 18:23:12
Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>
> > http://www.sateh.com/netbsd/
>
> OK, I did a save as source on my Sun and FTP'ed it from there.
>
> It boots all the way to multiuser with no obvious problems on my 840av.
>
> The relevant line is:
>
> ma0 at obio0: version 0x0940, address 08:00:07:86:d0:c0
>
> While that address looks reasonable in some sense the vendor portion does
> not match what my PowerMac 7500 uses, which is 00:05:02:...
>
Apple has used about 3 different vendor numbers, I think (although one of
them was supposedly a bug in some firmware routines...a patch to Open
Transport actually resulted in a changed ethernet address for some people
IIRC).
I can't remember if 08:00:07:86:d0:c0 is a valid Apple number, tho.
Later.
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Colin Wood cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6 Intel Corporation
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