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100M Ethernet PCI card recommendations

Subject: 100M Ethernet PCI card recommendations
From: "Don Hiatt" <DHiatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:36:22 UTC
Newsgroups: fa.openbsd.ppc

I'm trying to get OpenBSD/4.3 working on my old Mac G4 PCI 400Mhz
(Yikes!)
without much luck. Between the IDE timing out on writes and the ethernet
(bm0)
going down I've been unable to even get to a point where I can start to
debug
the machine.

So, I was wondering if anyone could recommend an ethernet chipset that
works with OpenBSD on the Mac (Realtek, etc.)?

What I'd like to do is NFS boot the machine and then I can debug the IDE
and
bm0 driver (even placing the bm0 in 10M/full it still drops out).

I found this old thread:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ppc&m=119737531605505&w=2
where Bruce O'Neel asks
        "I think it would be quite interesting to know if the Yikes G4
works. This is
       otherwise known as G4 PCI Graphics.

http://apple-history.com/?page=gallery&model=g4pci&performa=off&sort=dat
e&order=ASC"

So far, the answer is no but I'd certainly like to change that if I can
get the
machine up long enough to rebuild the kernel! ;-)

Thanks!

don


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