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From: david@thuban.ac.hmc.edu (David)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Problems with Ethernet and X on a Mac
Date: 27 Sep 95 09:55:29 PDT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College
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Message-ID: <1995Sep27.095529.1@thuban.ac.hmc.edu>
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I'm running Net BSD 1.0 on a Mac II ci, and I'm having some trouble with a
couple of things.  Primarily, Ethernet and X.

Ethernet first:  I don't seem to have a device file for my Ethernet card.  This
makes things a it harder, to put it mildly.  At boot, I get this message:
nubus0: s:13 t:4 "MacCon Ethernet, Asante Technologies, Inc." not configured

That about sums it up, I'd say.  Can anyone help me out on this one?

X:  I've installed the monochrome X tarball available from  (er...) somewhere
for the Mac68k version of NetBSD.  I get a message about __sys_errorlist or
something similar, and then startx fails.  I think I have an old library
somewhere.  Does anyone have a newer version of ny of the necessary libraries? 
I think libm.so might be the culprit.

Side note: I'm a Sys Admin, not a programmer, so please be gentle in your
responses. :)


many thanks!

-David