On Dec 7, 2007, at 10:34 AM, Scott Reynolds wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2007, at 7:00 AM, Thomas Carlson wrote:
>
>> On Dec 6, 2007, at 8:20 PM, Scott Reynolds wrote:
>>
>>> You may find that removing the Cabletron box
will help boot with the
>>> GENERIC kernel. It shouldn't matter but the
SCSI drivers were written
>>> using rather incomplete documentation for the
custom SCSI controller
>>> chips used in the various systems.
>>
>> That would be counterproductive as the se0 device
is the only
>> connection to my network on this old machine
(Powerbook 180).
>
> This may be true; but, I'm a little surprised the
Cabletron device
> works under NetBSD (I'm assuming you're saying that it
does, of
> course). Cabletron is known for modifying the operation
of otherwise
> standard hardware so that you're forced to use their
proprietary
> drivers.
I have been trying to get my Cabletron EA414 SCSI/ethernet
device to
work for years. Refer to the following:
http://osdir.com/ml/netbsd.ports.mac68k/2006-11/msg
00000.html
Thanks to Ian W. Dall, who updated the driver to this device
in 2006, I
think I might just have a chance. Problem is, I couldn't
get a NetBSD
3.x or 4.x kernel (NetBSD 1.5 runs fine) to boot on my
Powerbook 180
for various reasons, until NetBSD 4.0 R5. Got my hopes
up... but,
"magic numbers don't match."
Cheers, Tom
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