I'm sorry, but I believe that what I previously stated is not correct. It 
looks as if de com-slot Ethernet card keeps it's initialization over 
restarts. That's why I kept the comm-slot ethernet connection up and running 
under different apple talk configurations. However after really shutting 
down the machine, the needed initialization of de card disappeared and 
disabled the the comm-slot connection under NetBSD. To get the connection up 
once more, I had to reinstall apple talk and choose a network. This is more 
or less the behaviour that was stated here in a previous message.

The booter-app hangs when I startup NetBSD with apple talk installed. This 
means that I have to boot into Mac OS to choose an apple talk network, 
deactivate apple talk and boot into NetBSD. From then on the interface keeps 
working as long as I don't shut the machine down; rebooting causes no 
problem then, apparently.

Is there a booter-app, or a Mac OS(?) version that cures of the booter-app 
from hanging. Now it's virtually impossible to start up the machine without 
a keyboard/monitor installed.

Grz, Roelof Jan

> >I did not install the ethernet and open transport extensions because I 
>did
> >not have enough space on the Mac OS HFS partition. Reinstalling the
> >extensions made the comm slot ethernet adapter work fine under NetBSD. It
> >was not even necesary to load apple talk or anything else on startup. 
>Just
> >installing the extensions did the trick.
>
>This indicates that perhaps somebody should disassemble the ethernet driver
>extension and find out what additional initialization is happening so we
>can reproduce it for the NetBSD driver.
>
>Clearly this type of initialization will be necessary if we ever support
>direct bootinh without MacOS!
>
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>  Michael Zucca - mrz5149@acm.org
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>  "I'm too old to use Emacs." -- Rod MacDonald
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