[Yaird-devel] Bug#382945: yaird: Add support for Apple Oldworld hardware

Jérémy Bobbio jeremy.bobbio at etu.upmc.fr
Mon Aug 14 13:41:41 UTC 2006


On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 01:44:38PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:53:54 +0200 Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> 
> > I have tried to use yaird on an old Apple Oldworld 7600/132.  The
> > version currently in Debian fails because of unrecognized devices.
> > 
> > The patch attached add supports for these machines by:
> >  * ignoring the Grand Central IO controller,
> >  * recognizing the MACE ethernet controller (module "mace").
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Isn't it only the Grand Central IO controller that causes failure?
> 
> As far as I remember (not looking at the code right now) no ethernet
> NIC modules are recognized at all - you are expected to explicitly add
> to the config what NIC drivers you want loaded.

When enabling the NETWORK directive in Default.cfg, yaird needs to know
about the mace module, it seems.

Regards,
-- 
Jérémy
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