[rescue] SunFastEthernet 2.0 Driver CD

[Jonathan Chapman]

Dennis,

Thanks for the information! We were looking at getting fast Ethernet on one of
the IPXes in the shop as one of the guys is wanting to run the Transputer
development package on it but not:

a) have a massive external disk box
b) put a fireball high capacity drive inside
c) have to use an industrial SSD inside

...so I suggested NFS and trying out fast Ethernet! Or, you know, a SS10 :P

Still haven't gotten to it, I'll update the list on our (mis)adventures.

Thanks,
Jonathan

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On Wednesday, July 14th, 2021 at 20:59, Dennis Grevenstein
<dennis.grevenstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Jonathan Chapman wrote:
>
> > Thanks guys! Looks like it probably doesn't work on a SPARCstation IPX
> >
> > (even though it detects and identifies when the SBus is scanned), but
> >
> > should be good to go on the SS10!
>
> The hme (= Fast Ethernet 2.0 or 2.1) is not supported on sun4c.
>
> there are only drivers for SunOS 4 on sun4m.
>
> The older be (= Fast Ethernet 1.0) I think has a sun4c driver for
>
> Solaris 2 (up to 2.6b&) available. I am not sure if there is a driver
>
> for SunOS 4 on sun4c though.
>
> In any way, an IPX is probably too slow to do much with 100Mbit
>
> Ethernet. I remember people running these with NetBSD back in
>
> the days and I was told that it barely made a difference.
>
> Dennis
>
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