Re: current status of computers

mreindl:
> Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I have then 2 other cards, a 10/100 card and a wonderful Apple NuBus
> > card with a 68000+SONIC chip (that is supported by no one) that "work".
> > They get more or less recognized at boot being  no MAC is recognized and
> > they no not work afterwards as etherent cards. But they don't "disturb"
> > the boot process (well, taking the cards out totally works too, but I
> > wanted to check what hapened with other cards so I dismounted every mac
> > that had an ethernet card I could get my hands on).
> > 
> 
> If "the other" NIC not being "the one" with the Sonic chip shows up as
> supported by ae(4) and the driver doesn't seem to get the MAC address
> (i.e. it shows something like: ae0 at nubus0: address 00:00:00:00:00:00

I have exactly this problem. It has been fixed in NetBSD too. Maybe a
correct patch could be found from there? (I think I posted about this a
couple of years ago?).

> , type Farallon EtherWave Nubus, 32KB) you could try the diff below.
> I don't know if there are any 100Mbit ae(4)s, but it might be worth a
> try. Dmesg output would be helful.
> 
> Blame xsa@ if it blows up your machine, but it helped my ae(4) :)

-- Don