slot probing weirdness. Re: current status of computers

on 3/30/04 1:28 AM, Martin Reindl at [email protected] wrote:

> 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
> , 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) :)

No unfortunately my 10/100 card says:
nubus0: slot d: ??? (Vendor: ???, Part: ??? Type: 0004 00001 00ff ffd4 not
configured

slotd d ?!?? Heeeelp !!!

The ethernet is indeed in slot D. But when I insert the other 2 ethernet
cards, I get problems on slot "C". IN slot "C" there is my Video card
(SuperMac sperctrum/8 III).

So this is strange. This card worked with even stone-age old NetBSD's and it
is there since ever. So are there incompatibilty problems ?!

I try reinserting the standard Asante card.

The exact error message I get is

slot_noint() slot c

that gets repeated ad nauseam.


I try swapping videocard, I happen to have a SuperMac Spectrum 8/24...

and.. it works !!

3.3 Works on my IIci !! and ethernet pings, yay!

now I can fetch the remaining tarballs and extract them w/o the pain of the
MacOS-based installer.

Since the ae0 card (Asante) works I will now try the other card that made
the same failure and that NetBSD supports.

-Riccardo