Subject: Re: Is this card supported ?
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Shigeki UNO <shigeki@mediawars.ne.jp>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/27/2004 16:18:20
Riccardo Mottola <zuse@libero.it> writes:
> on 4/26/04 8:59 PM, Shigeki UNO at shigeki@mediawars.ne.jp wrote:
>
>>
>> Chip: SONIC DP83934AVQB
>>
>> APPLE ETHER NB TWISTED-PAIR CARD
>>
> I don't know. SONIC chips are generally supported. But a particular apple
> card which had a 68000 on board is not. I have one :) DOn't ask me what the
> problems are.
> Under macos it works nice and is a very fine card.
>
>> Any comments?
> Buy it and in case write a driver for it? :) General SONIC support is there.
>
> -R
Allen Briggs <briggs@wasabisystems.com> writes:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 06:26:12PM -0500, Bob Nestor wrote:
>> This card wasn't supported the last time I checked. The "ae" driver
>> finds it, but it can't determine the RAM size. It is also sold as a
>> Dayna model M0437Z/B.
>
> It shouldn't be too hard to make it work, though. If it's matching
> ae, then something's up--it should be using the Sonic driver.
>
> As long as it doesn't have the 68K on the board (that requires A/ROSE
> under MacOS and is basically a little embedded system, as far as I can
> tell).
>
> -allen
>
> --
> Allen Briggs briggs@wasabisystems.com
> Wasabi Systems, Inc. http://www.wasabisystems.com/
Thank you for giving me comments, Riccardo(I have often read your posts
in mac68k penguin mailing list:) and Allen(You're now a core memmber, aren't you?).
Anyway, The choice if I'll buy or not is all up to me. Sigh.
Regards,
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Shigeki UNO