At 5:18 PM -0700 6/8/00, Clark Martin wrote:

>  >This didn't probe properly with NetBSD 1.4.2 at boot - the memory
>>size couldn't be determined.  I swapped it out for a Farallon LC
>>ethernet card I had, and the Farallon worked fine.  (This surprised
>>me - I always thought of Asante as the best supported ethernet cards
>>manufacturer's for NetBSD.)
>>
>>The Asante card in question is a "Asante MacCon for LC Rev. D2",
>>copyright 1991, with a sticker on one of the chips that reads
>>"22-0006-01 LC V1.1 U10-B".  The largest chip is labelled:
>>
>>S9148AP C4
>>DP83932BVF
>>XJ02197U
>>
>>Is this card supported (and this is a bug) or am I the first person
>>trying to use this card with NetBSD?
>
>This sounds like an early LC PDS card.  I'm assuming you are NOT using it
>in an LC as it has no PMMU.  Later LCs had a somewhat different PDS
>interface which doesn't work with all older cards.  I had what is probably
>the same card and it didn't work in a Q605.  A newer model card did.

Well I was using it in my LC475 (with a full 040), essentially the 
same as a Quadra 605.  Interestingly enough, it worked fine in MacOS 
7.5 (I installed all of NetBSD 1.4.2 from an AppleShare volume).  So 
it doesn't seem to be a hardware problem.  Definitely something with 
NetBSD.

--
Nathan Raymond



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