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From: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: A/UX 2.0 and old EtherPortII card??
Keywords: A/UX2.0, Ethernet, S/W, H/W, Communication
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Date: 8 Jan 91 13:12:38 GMT
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In <47816@apple.Apple.COM> ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik) writes:

>In article <1991Jan7.134806.10592@tnofel.fel.tno.nl> jsvp1@tnofel.fel.tno.nl 
(J S de Vries) writes:
>>I want to use A/UX 2.0 with my old Kinetics EtherPort II card
>>I have tried to use the old A/UX 1.0 (Rev A) Kinetics EtherPort II driver 
>>software to configure the A/UX kernel for BNet or NFS. However, during 
>>linking the kernel one undefined symbol is found ('mcIget') in the binary 
>>file /etc/boot.d/if_ep, which is one of the driver S/W files, supplied by 
>>Kinetics. This kills the linking process.

Isn't Monaco a stupid font! The actual problem is "mclget" as you can see if 
Courier is used.

>Device drivers written under A/UX 1.1 won't work with A/UX 2.0, because a 
couple
>of kernel structures are different. I.e. the company/persons behind the
>driver should simply recompile the driver(s) under A/UX 2.0 with the new
>A/UX 2.0 device driver kit files.

The A/UX 1.1 version of the driver works with A/UX 2.0 but doesn't support 
AppleTalk - it's fine for NFS, TCP/IP and so on. I'd be happy to send a copy 
of the 1.1 driver binary to apple.com for people to fetch as needed, but only 
if the present owners of the rights to that code give their consent: you could 
try asking them for the 1.1 drivers anyway.
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