At 5:48 AM -0500 4/21/00, Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:
>Hi,
>
>you did not say which version of NetBSD you were trying to use
>with the cards.  If I'm not totally mistaken, the Lite-On PNIC
>cards are supported by the new "tulip" (tlp) driver in -current.

I'm running the vanilla 1.4.2 and/or 1.4.1  I've tried both.
I have not tried running on -current.

>Ideally, the 3Com cards should work; there's a driver for them in
>NetBSD -- ex(4).  However, I can't say offhand if there are
>endianness or bus_dma issues which prevents them from working
>properly on the macppc.
>
>According to pci(4) on one of my 1.4.2 PCs, the SMC/Asante
>ethernet card ought to be supported by the de(4) driver; the card
>you have is at least listed in /sys/dev/pci/pcidevs (that doesn't
>necessarily mean it's supported, though...).

It looks like the lack of support may be due to the endianness
issues, and the fact that they have not been tested on macppc.

>> Does anyone have direct experience with the SMC Etherpower II
>> cards, or the Zynx cards?
>
>The SMC 83C170 (EPIC/100) cards should be supported by the epic
>driver in NetBSD.  (There's no man page for the driver on my
>1.4.2 system, though.)
>
>> Am I going about this all wrong?  It seems like this should not
>> be quite this hard.
>
>I agree.
>
>You do of course have all the requisite and potential drivers
>compiled into the kernel you're running?  Yes, this sounds like a
>stupid question, but I had to ask anyway.

My kernel is "right out of the box".  I'm not sure what's in it. ;->

-dgl-