Subject: Re: Sun SBus QFE supported during port/sparc install?
To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
From: Eric Schnoebelen <eric@cirr.com>
List: tech-install
Date: 10/11/2001 14:22:33
Brad Knowles writes:
- The onboard ethernet interface has only AUI, not UTP, and I
- don't have a transceiver. So, I figured I'd check to see if the Sun
- SBuse QFE was supported, and it does appear to be on the list.
-
- However, from what I can tell, the QFE is not supported
- during the install process, at least not for NetBSD 1.5.2 -- it only
- seems to recognize the on-board Lance ethernet controller. Is there
- any way I can fix this problem, perhaps by getting a modified
- kernel/boot floppy image?
From my digging around in sys/arch/sparc/conf, I can't
find a reference to qef* in either 1.5.2 or -current. I did
find reference to qec* devices, with be* and qe* devices behind
it, but those are in the INSTALL kernel as well.
Hopefully, someone will show that I'm wrong, and correct
me.
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