Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:17:28 +1000 From: Horst =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Burkhardt III <horst@sxemacs.org> To: Jochen Fahrner <freebsd@fahrners.de> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (no subject) Message-ID: <1239355048.2433.1942.camel@horst-tla> In-Reply-To: <6F7FDA78-ED86-4319-B25D-DA532FBB5716@fahrners.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 09:54 +0200, Jochen Fahrner wrote: > Hi, > > after successfull installation of FreeBSD on an old Compaq, I now > want to install FreeBSD on an old iMac G3 PPC. > After reading the FreeBSD/PPC 6.0 installation instructions, I saw > that built-in ethternet is not supported on all models. > > Before I delete my OS X partition and installing FreeBSD, I would > like to test if ethernet is supported. Without ethernet FreeBSD makes > no sense for me. > > How can I find out if ethernet is working before installing it? > > Jochen We're up to 7.2 now ;) Most ethernet cards are supported, and the iMac G3's is one of them as I recall. Those instructions need to be updated a LOT. :) -- Horst. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAknfDqgACgkQRtTtv0BbTe5VEgCdHCcXIJK9BTTGwD0Rghvxgx8V bvUAoKrQEiKCAvn7HZqBY+/9yAfnFK4j =Iqjw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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