[plug] PPC firewall question

Quintin Lette quintin at arach.net.au
Tue Sep 9 13:17:26 WST 2003


On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 01:01 pm, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Quintin Lette wrote:
> > Hope that is of some assistance
> >
> > By the way does anyone know how to use the aaui port on a powermac under
> > linux, that would make life so easy... 2 onboard nics (10mb RJ45 + 10mb
> > AAUI) and 3 pci slots on the 7200/x series Powermacs :-)
> >
> > HTH and Regards
>
> I dunno about the 7200's but on my 7300's the AAUI and 10BaseT were dual
> media interfaces to the one ethernet chip. Have a look at the
> motherboard and you will only find a single interface, just with dual
> media ports. One or the other, (Or possbily both at the same time, but
> only on one chip and MAC address. Your networks would get well confused!)
>
> Brad

Ok, sounds like I'm out of luck then... :-( oh well.. now to get the Compaq 
WL200 working in it (and leaving the EEPRO100 card in there)

I'll continue that search in the PCMCIA thread :-)

thanks



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