On 2014-04-16 09:57, Norman Gray wrote:
Moss, hello.
On 2014 Apr 14, at 08:05, Maurice McCarthy <m...@mythic-beasts.com>
wrote:
Though I've only been using OpenBSD for about a year and, from
reading your posts, I'm clearly no where as competent as yourself, may
I ask if you have downloaded the necessary firmware for the athn
ethernet card?
Ah, an interesting point.
No, I didn't download any firmware for the card -- it Just Worked.
If, as you suggest, this is to some extent unexpected, it's possibly
explained by the machine having had Windows on it before: it _might_
be (I'm not sure I've necessarily convinced myself of the logic here)
that this had ensured there were up-to-date drivers, in a way that
wouldn't have been true if I'd installed OpenBSD onto the 'raw'
machine.
Best wishes,
Norman
Ah so your ethernet is now working then! Yes? If so then good. I'd
thought that one problem was that you could not connect to the internet
using the netbook. The install script does download any firmware it
finds necessary but, of course, if you needed to install ethernet
firmware to do that then there is a self-defeating loop. Maybe your
Macbook has the same card?
Moss
