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Re: powermac 9500 ethernet and 2.4 booting problems



On  16 Sep, this message from Andy Bastien echoed through cyberspace:
> First question: This beast has two ethernet cards that I haven't been
> able to get working; does any know for sure whether these cards do
> work?  
> 
> The first is a Scitex LANC Fast Ethernet card.  I don't know much
> about this one; I understand that they are used to run SciLAN, which
> is some sort of proprietary networking system that runs on top of
> ethernet.  Supposedly the cards can be used as straight ethernet, but
> I have no idea what driver to use (I don't even have MacOS drivers for
> it).  It has SMC, Altera, and PLX chips, but I don't know which would
> be relevant.

SMC and PLX are important. PLX do make lots of PCI<->IO bus bridges, I
hope it doesn't mean that your card uses an ISA Ethernet chip :-).

> The second is an AsanteFAST 10/100 PCI Card with a Digital 21140-AF
> chip.  I've tried using the tulip and old_tulip modules with 2.2.21
> built from source, and ng_tulip with the Debian 2.2.20-pmac kernels.
> None of these has worked.  Any ideas?

Any error messages? Something in the logs?

First thing: make sure you _do_ get a 2.4 kernel to boot; AFAIR 2.2
kernels wil not see both of your PCI buses.

Then, once you get this solved (or even before just to see...) send
along the output of 'lspci -vv', so we can see what chips are detected
on your PCI bus.

Cheers

Michel

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