On Thursday 25 March 2004 01:08 am, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> At 12:55 AM -0500 3/25/04, Jason Sterne wrote: 
> Booting is complex.  See the install notes, which cover a lot of the 
> options.  Sounds like you know OF well enough to deal with most of 
> them.
> >I'd also like to get Ethernet going as cheaply as possible. I have several 
DEC
> >Tulip-compatible cards for the PC. Is there any chance they would work with
> >NetBSD on PowerPC despite the obvious firmware inconsistency? ;)

> Shouldn't be a problem in general.  Some drivers might not support 
> both endianness, but people seem pretty good about keeping up with 
> that.  Unless the cards have an OF prom you won't be able to net-boot 
> with them.

SWEET! I did have to coax an old floppy drive to read the kernel 
(surprisingly, it had enough life left to get the job done) and the Ethernet
works just fine.