Re: Installing over Ethernet on Mac Quadra 660av
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 03:15:08AM -0500, Ray Knight wrote:
> Josh Kuperman wrote:
> >
> The AV Macs use MACE Ethernet which does not work in the kernel supplied
> with Debian Potato.
>
> Andrew McPherson posted the following links to the
> linux-mac68k@mac.linux-m68k.org mailing list a few days back. These are
> supposed to contain beta drivers for MACE Ethernet.
>
> ftp://macduff.dhs.org/pub/cvs/vmlinux-2.2.16-102600.gz
> ftp://macduff.dhs.org/pub/cvs/vmlinux-2.4.0test9-102600.gz
> ftp://macduff.dhs.org/pub/cvs/modules-2.2.16-102600.tar.gz
> ftp://macduff.dhs.org/pub/cvs/modules-2.4.0t9-102600.tar.gz
>
> Note: I don't have a system with MACE Ethernet, but others have posted
> with some success using the 2.2.16 kernel. 2.4.X still has other issues
> is probably only for the brave and experienced.
>
I tried both kernels from the macduff.dhs.org, but the test kernel
produced errors when decompressed. The kernels did find the MACE
ethernet and allowed a decent connection, but nothing worked well
except for ping.
Even though a ping of http://http.us.debian.org would always have a
turn around time of between 35 and 150 milliseconds depending site was
pinged. I got about 500 Bytes per second on some of the data
transfers; any attempt to download anything of any size would
eventually time out -- I did manage to get some small pieces
downloaded with dselect before I gave up.
--
Josh Kuperman
josh@saratoga.lib.ny.us
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