Re: 100M Ethernet PCI card recommendations

[Ian McWilliam <kaosagnt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/07/2008, at 3:34 AM, Don Hiatt wrote:

> 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

I'm sure I used fxp (intel 8255* series) successfully. The built-in  
BMAC ethernet harware is such a dud implementation that it needs so  
many software work arounds, it not funny.


Ian McWilliam