Jeff Laughlin wrote:

 
> 
> Hmm, after examining the boot kernal messages I noticed that it IS 
> initializing an mc0 device, even tho it doesn't appear in /dev. However 
> when I added an ifconf_mc0 line to rc.conf and configured the other 
> networks settings I was able to get networking going A-OK. Thanks!


glad that worked for you . . .


> Things are looking up. I got bash and perl and apache installed. One 
> interesting thing I noted is that ssh uses a lot less CPU time on this 
> 7500 than on my P2-200 Lunix box. A single scp thread at full tilt 
> consumes about 60% of the cpu on my lunix box, but only about 30% on the 
> powermac. The 604e is a hell of a CPU.



Agreed.  i remember running BeOS 3 on it and being amazed: 
linuxppc and netbsd have been similarly liberating.