Dair Grant wrote:
> Colin Wood wrote:
> 
> >the apple ethernet nb cards _do_ have sonic chips on them, but the usually
> >had a 68000 on them as well.  does _your_ card have a 68k processor on it?
> >if so, it's not supported.
> >
> >there was some kind of ethernet card made by apple (ethertalk nb?) which
> >did _not_ have a 68k processor on it, and i believe that they work under
> >netbsd.  it's also possible that apple made some ethernet nb cards w/o the
> >68k processor.
> >
> >> Is there anything I can do to get NetBSD running with this card?
> >
> >if your card doesn't in fact have a 68k processor on it, then maybe so.
> >otherwise, probably not :-(
> 
> I took the card out and had a closer look: I can't see any Motorola chips 
> on the Ethernet card itself. The chips that are present on the card are:
> 
>  1 Valor SF1043
>  1 Sonic DP83934
>  1 AMD
>  2 Texas Instruments
>  2 unbadged (but too small to be a 68k)
>  4 NEC
> 
> The only Motorola chip that's visible anywhere is the 68882 on the Nubus 
> adaptor.

That being the case, someone with sufficient knowledge should be able to
figure out what's wrong with this particular card....anyone with
sufficient knowledge want to step forward?

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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