On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 07:47:06AM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote: > hello, > > i am relatively new to debian (i used it a few years ago on x86...) > 'cos i moved from SuSE to debian (now guess why ;) > > i do have a few machines at home: > > one pre-gbit g4 (1gig of ram, two ata-discs) > > one pm 8200/120 (64meg, one 1gig scsi hd and one 4gb scsi hd, > additional smc 9432tx 'etherpower II' and a farallon 10/100 card > based on a DEC 21143 chipset 'Tulip') > > one Sun SPARCstation 5 Model 170 and one half Ultra (has to be re-assembled ;) > > ok, so i used to build the 8200 as a tiny server (if it works fine, > it'll get a controller and a really big hd) using netatalk, nfs > (perhaps, after a while, nis additionally) and smb (when friends with > their x86 come). > > using suse linux netatalk ran fine for me, even nfs worked. > fortunately it wasn't able to address any other NIC than the onboard > one (just 10mbit, oh dear) -- it's capitalistic, too, so... ;) > > ok, now my two questions of the day: > > * is there any way to become one of these additional NICs running (i > just have two different in this machine cos i wanted to test which > one works under suse -- none of them did)? under suse the smc card > (using the 'epic100'-driver) hangs the *whole* system (hard reset > req'd), e.g. by typing 'rcnetwork restart'. the farallon card doesn't > work cos of 'i/o-errors', don't know the exact words... [both cards > work fine under mac os -- but asip died in the last weeks and doesn't > talk nfs/nis] > > * have problems booting my g4 via bootX (guess, this is the wrongest > way for a new world machine, isn't it?) as far as i have seen, debian > utilizes yaboot, too. i'll try it that way... > > *** is there any working NIC besides the onboard ones? ***
Last time I tried, I had my Cogent EM-100 working. It uses the DEC 21140 (aka tulip) chipset, and is supported by the "tulip" driver. I've been using the built-in MACE in my oldworld, but I guarantee that I had a tulip NIC working in my powermac. I think this was with 2.2.17 (yeah, that long ago :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
