Power Mac 6500 ethernet YDL 3.0

[D.B. Holder]

I solved this problem under YDL 2.3 with the 2.4 kernel. My machine wouldn't 
pull a DHCP
lease for the NIC residing in the Comm II slot on the 6500 mainboard. My 
machine wasn't
reporting the correct MAC address for the ethernet card in the Comm II slot. 
In order to fix
this problem, I first edited my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to 
contain:

NAME=localhost
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=none

Then I edited my /etc/rc.local file to contain:

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 hw ether ad:dr:es:ss:ss
ifconfig eth0 up
/sbin/dhcpd eth0

Where you replace ad:dr:es:ss:ss with the correct MAC address for your NIC 
in the Comm
II slot. This allowed me to pull a DHCP lease.

Hope this helps.




	David Emerson <arnage@mac.com>
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I'm having some trouble getting my 6500's built-in nic to work in YDL
3.0 with the 2.4 kernel.  I read the archives and noted that some had
success with switching back to the 2.2 kernel, though I'd rather stay
with the 2.4.  So I bought a PCI NIC (3COM, the one recommended on the
YDL site).  It works in another YDL box (9600/300), but will not
retrieve a DHCP addr. on the 6500.  I've tried to reinstall YDL a
couple of times, and each install noted the presence of the PCI card
and it's correct in calling the card eth1.  However, no install has
been able to induce the card to retrieve an IP via DHCP.

Any ideas?

Of course, ideally, I'd love to know how, if it's possible, to run the
built-in nic under kernel 2.4 YDL 3.0.  But just getting the 3com NIC
running is good enough if that's all I can do.

--David

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